Southern Historical Society PapersVirginia Historical Society, 1889 - Confederate States of America |
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... . This has arisen from a variety of causes . Prior to the late war slavery was antagonistic to the development of dense populations ; fertile areas were monopolized by the large planter , and he 4 Southern Historical Society Papers .
... . This has arisen from a variety of causes . Prior to the late war slavery was antagonistic to the development of dense populations ; fertile areas were monopolized by the large planter , and he 4 Southern Historical Society Papers .
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... slaves . * * * * And these people of the South are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to lib- erty than those in the northward . Such were all the ancient Com- monwealths ; such were our Gothic ...
... slaves . * * * * And these people of the South are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to lib- erty than those in the northward . Such were all the ancient Com- monwealths ; such were our Gothic ...
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... slavery , were all believed to have had their influence , and to have produced a weak and vacillating people . Had luxury enervated them , had they become effeminate , had the increase of wealth and the impress of slavery rendered them ...
... slavery , were all believed to have had their influence , and to have produced a weak and vacillating people . Had luxury enervated them , had they become effeminate , had the increase of wealth and the impress of slavery rendered them ...
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... slave . His shackles fell off and he came forth a free man . He then became invested with all the rights of a white ... slave - ridden section , because he refused to com- pete with slave labor . The consequence has been that the white ...
... slave . His shackles fell off and he came forth a free man . He then became invested with all the rights of a white ... slave - ridden section , because he refused to com- pete with slave labor . The consequence has been that the white ...
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... slave States . In three , at least , of these States , the negroes outnumber the whites , and consequently they out - vote the whites in these States . If the ballot is free and the count is fair , and if blood is thicker than water ...
... slave States . In three , at least , of these States , the negroes outnumber the whites , and consequently they out - vote the whites in these States . If the ballot is free and the count is fair , and if blood is thicker than water ...
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Page 229 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 218 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.
Page 347 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him: The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious; If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest (For Brutus is an honourable man, So are they all, all honourable men) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
Page 218 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 374 - After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result from no distrust of them; but, feeling that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that...
Page 217 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons...
Page 431 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 131 - ... and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority, intermingled with, or near about them, who may oppose their movements.
Page 436 - States declares that congress shall have power to dispose of, and make all needful rules and regulations respecting, the territory and other property belonging to the United States.
Page 131 - Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.