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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Page vii
... influence upon public opinion . But the present volume has an advantage over any work written on this side of the Atlantic , that it is free from any imputation of party or sectional bias ; that it has something of the tone of a ...
... influence upon public opinion . But the present volume has an advantage over any work written on this side of the Atlantic , that it is free from any imputation of party or sectional bias ; that it has something of the tone of a ...
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... influenced in the first instance by considerations of a purely specu- lative kind — my object being to show that the course of history is largely determined by the action of economic causes . To causes of this description , it seemed to ...
... influenced in the first instance by considerations of a purely specu- lative kind — my object being to show that the course of history is largely determined by the action of economic causes . To causes of this description , it seemed to ...
Page xii
... influence of territorial magnitude on the American character , no theory framed upon these or upon any other incidents of the contending parties , however ingeniously constructed , will suffice to conceal the fact , that it is slavery ...
... influence of territorial magnitude on the American character , no theory framed upon these or upon any other incidents of the contending parties , however ingeniously constructed , will suffice to conceal the fact , that it is slavery ...
Page xiii
... influence of the slave oligarchy falsely charged on democracy . - Each principle to be tested by its proper fruits . - Character of the Slave Power CHAPTER IV . TENDENCIES OF SLAVE SOCIETIES . 46 In what direction are slave societies ...
... influence of the slave oligarchy falsely charged on democracy . - Each principle to be tested by its proper fruits . - Character of the Slave Power CHAPTER IV . TENDENCIES OF SLAVE SOCIETIES . 46 In what direction are slave societies ...
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... influence . II . Progressive emancipation : Advantage of dealing with the evil in detail ; Facilities offered by society in the Border States ; Opera- tion of natural causes in the more southern states ; Prospects of the ulti- mate ...
... influence . II . Progressive emancipation : Advantage of dealing with the evil in detail ; Facilities offered by society in the Border States ; Opera- tion of natural causes in the more southern states ; Prospects of the ulti- mate ...
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African slave trade aggressive agriculture ambition American annexation anti-slavery become career carried cause character circumstances civilization colonization condition Confederacy confined Congress connexion consequences considerable Constitution contest cotton crops cultivation Democratic despotism districts economic effect emancipation equal established exist fact favour Federal fertile force free labour freedom Fugitive Slave Law human important increase independence industry influence institution interests Kansas land less Louisiana master mean whites ment Mexico Missouri Compromise mode moral Morrill tariff nations natural necessity negro North America Northern object Olmsted's once peculiar persons planters political portion position present principle productive profitable progress proprietors purpose question race regarded result secession Senate settlement slave labour Slave party slave population Slave Power slave societies slaveholders social soil South Southern Southern party square mile success tariff of 1832 territory Texas tion ultimate extinction Union United Virginia wealth West Indies whole
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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...