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... States in 1850- Number of Free White Male Persons over fifteen years of age engaged in Agriculture or other out - door Labor in the Slave States- Falsity of the Assertion that White Men cannot cultivate Southern Soil - White Female ...
... States in 1850- Number of Free White Male Persons over fifteen years of age engaged in Agriculture or other out - door Labor in the Slave States- Falsity of the Assertion that White Men cannot cultivate Southern Soil - White Female ...
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... 1850 , the pro- ducts of manufactures , mining and the mechanic arts in New York amounted to $ 237,597,249 ; those of Virginia amounted to only $ 29,705,387 ... States combined ; when the City of Norfolk owned FREE AND THE SLAVE STATES . 13.
... 1850 , the pro- ducts of manufactures , mining and the mechanic arts in New York amounted to $ 237,597,249 ; those of Virginia amounted to only $ 29,705,387 ... States combined ; when the City of Norfolk owned FREE AND THE SLAVE STATES . 13.
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... amount is estimated to be not less than $ 300,000,000 ; and as , in 1850 , there were 408 , - 762 free inhabitants in the single city of Philadelphia , against 283,544 of the same class , in the whole FREE AND THE SLAVE STATES . 19.
... amount is estimated to be not less than $ 300,000,000 ; and as , in 1850 , there were 408 , - 762 free inhabitants in the single city of Philadelphia , against 283,544 of the same class , in the whole FREE AND THE SLAVE STATES . 19.
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... slaves in the Union , we would do it , and the country and every- body in it would be vastly better off to - morrow . Now is the time for ... 1850 , we now propose to correct a most extraordinary and mischievous error ... SLAVE STATES . 33.
... slaves in the Union , we would do it , and the country and every- body in it would be vastly better off to - morrow . Now is the time for ... 1850 , we now propose to correct a most extraordinary and mischievous error ... SLAVE STATES . 33.
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... STATES - 1850 . Wheat , States . bushels . Oats , bushels . Indian Corn , bushels . California 17,228 12,236 ... SLAVE STATES - 1850 . States .. Wheat , bushels . Oats , bushels . Indian Corn , bushels . Alabama .. Arkansas ...
... STATES - 1850 . Wheat , States . bushels . Oats , bushels . Indian Corn , bushels . California 17,228 12,236 ... SLAVE STATES - 1850 . States .. Wheat , bushels . Oats , bushels . Indian Corn , bushels . Alabama .. Arkansas ...
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Page 275 - And I will come near to you to judgment; And I will be a swift witness Against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, And against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, The widow, and the fatherless, And that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, Saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 194 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page 215 - That no free government, or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
Page 244 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law...
Page 275 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 195 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain...
Page 193 - 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.
Page 274 - Therefore thus saith the Lord ; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Page 196 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Page 196 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.