The Slave Power; Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American Contest

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Macmillan, 1863 - Slavery - 410 pages
 

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Page xxiv - These powers ought to exist without limitation ; because it is impossible to foresee or define the extent and variety of National exigencies, or the correspondent extent and variety of the means which may be necessary to satisfy them.
Page 168 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man ; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 12 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of Government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported : Be it enacted, etc.
Page 184 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal.
Page iv - JEFFERSON, in his forecast, had anticipated this as the 'rock upon which the old Union would split!
Page 58 - ... that once furnished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a country in its infancy, where fifty years ago scarce a forest tree had been felled by the axe of the pioneer, is already exhibiting the painful signs of senility and decay apparent in Virginia and the Carolinas...
Page 168 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 115 - North, and there it remains ; it never falls into our hands again. \ ^In one way or another we are more or less subservient to the North every day of our lives. In infancy we are swaddled in Northern muslin ; in childhood we are humored with Northern gewgaws ; in youth we are instructed out of Northern books ; at the age of maturity we sow our
Page 385 - ... such services can only be expected from one who has no will of his own; who surrenders his will in implicit obedience to that of another, Such obedience is the consequence only of uncontrolled authority over the body, There is nothing else which can operate to produce the effect, The power of the master must be absolute, to render the submission of the slave perfect...
Page 135 - But this proportion was somewhat smaller than usual, he added, " because his women were uncommonly good breeders ; he did not suppose there was a lot of women anywhere that bred faster than his ; he never heard of babies coming so fast as they did on his plantation ; it was perfectly surprising ; and every one of them, in his estimation, was worth two hundred dollars, as negroes were selling now, the moment it drew breath.

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