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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... former career of annexation and conquest , as in its present efforts to achieve independence , has been constantly the same - to avoid being made the victim of Yankee rapacity , to secure for itself the development of its own resources ...
... former career of annexation and conquest , as in its present efforts to achieve independence , has been constantly the same - to avoid being made the victim of Yankee rapacity , to secure for itself the development of its own resources ...
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... former chapter , slavery supports itself , will enable us to illus- trate this remark . It was then seen that slave labour is , from the nature of the case , unskilled labour ; and it is evident that this circumstance at once excludes ...
... former chapter , slavery supports itself , will enable us to illus- trate this remark . It was then seen that slave labour is , from the nature of the case , unskilled labour ; and it is evident that this circumstance at once excludes ...
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... former territory no white labourers can be found , for they would be afraid of assimilating themselves to the negroes ; on the latter no one is idle , for the white popu- lation extends its activity and its intelligence to every kind of ...
... former territory no white labourers can be found , for they would be afraid of assimilating themselves to the negroes ; on the latter no one is idle , for the white popu- lation extends its activity and its intelligence to every kind of ...
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... former ; whereas this is the case with the labour of slaves . According , therefore , as free peasants multiply , after the best soils have been appropriated , the second best are taken into cultivation ; and as they multi- ply still ...
... former ; whereas this is the case with the labour of slaves . According , therefore , as free peasants multiply , after the best soils have been appropriated , the second best are taken into cultivation ; and as they multi- ply still ...
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... former experience of mankind . In the first place , there is the vital fact - the difference in race and colour between modern slaves and their masters - a difference which had nothing corresponding to it in the slavery of former times ...
... former experience of mankind . In the first place , there is the vital fact - the difference in race and colour between modern slaves and their masters - a difference which had nothing corresponding to it in the slavery of former times ...
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Page ix - That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page ix - ... 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 or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 95 - 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 89 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; 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 126 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Page x - Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled "An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Page x - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any...
Page 129 - That it is the duty of the Federal Government, in all its departments, to protect, when necessary, the rights of persons and property in the Territories, and wherever else its constitutional authority extends.
Page 96 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page ix - ... 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...