Letters on the American Republic, Or, Common Fallacies and Monstrous Errors Refuted and Exposed, Volume 4 |
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... question or entertain a doubt concerning the humanity and divinity of slavery display " bottomless ignorance , " unteachable fanaticism , and blasphemously intrude between the negro and his God . What fearful vested rights are disclosed ...
... question or entertain a doubt concerning the humanity and divinity of slavery display " bottomless ignorance , " unteachable fanaticism , and blasphemously intrude between the negro and his God . What fearful vested rights are disclosed ...
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... question in its application to them . " Ye have robbed me , even this whole nation ! " Thus has it been with our American people ; and no man can demonstrate that they can present the free - will offering of their hearts , flaming with ...
... question in its application to them . " Ye have robbed me , even this whole nation ! " Thus has it been with our American people ; and no man can demonstrate that they can present the free - will offering of their hearts , flaming with ...
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... question of slavery will not now be taken into account . We are to save the Union , and then save all that is worth saving . " Our Northern people had often performed their antics before the Southerns , and prostrated themselves to pick ...
... question of slavery will not now be taken into account . We are to save the Union , and then save all that is worth saving . " Our Northern people had often performed their antics before the Southerns , and prostrated themselves to pick ...
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... questions in a speech which he delivered at Alton , Illinois , Oct. 15 , 1858. And that he shared in the supposed blessings of what he called this “ High Privilege " is abundantly made manifest in his published speeches , of which we ...
... questions in a speech which he delivered at Alton , Illinois , Oct. 15 , 1858. And that he shared in the supposed blessings of what he called this “ High Privilege " is abundantly made manifest in his published speeches , of which we ...
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... question ? " And replying to his own question , he has con- fidently asserted that the issue in the present terrible conflict between the North and the South " is freedom F - or slavery liberty or despotism remunerated labour , or ...
... question ? " And replying to his own question , he has con- fidently asserted that the issue in the present terrible conflict between the North and the South " is freedom F - or slavery liberty or despotism remunerated labour , or ...
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Page 66 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 66 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 50 - I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the National authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be " the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not...
Page 51 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it...
Page 6 - FROM distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat, or beat of drum; True patriots all, for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good...
Page 222 - In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced; the old flag met his sight. "Halt!
Page 78 - It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves; and the intention of the lawgiver is the law. All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution - to this provision as much as to any other. To the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases come within the terms of this clause 'shall be delivered up
Page 59 - The prevalence of that pacific and friendly disposition among the people of the United States which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies, to make those mutual concessions which are requisite to the general prosperity, and, in some instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the community.
Page 84 - I should be exceedingly glad to know that there would never be another slave State admitted into the Union ; but I must add, that if slavery shall be kept out of the territories during the territorial existence of any one given territory, and then the people...
Page 83 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people, and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races...