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... England , north of the Severn and Welland rivers , or a line from the Bristol Channel to the Wash ( a line much better defined by those rivers than any " geographical line " dividing the states ) should , by a secret conspiracy ...
... England , north of the Severn and Welland rivers , or a line from the Bristol Channel to the Wash ( a line much better defined by those rivers than any " geographical line " dividing the states ) should , by a secret conspiracy ...
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... England itself . It is stated here that the Alleghany mountains form a natural division line between the North and the South , and many clearly see in that a providential argument in favor of secession . But the assumption is false ...
... England itself . It is stated here that the Alleghany mountains form a natural division line between the North and the South , and many clearly see in that a providential argument in favor of secession . But the assumption is false ...
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... England and France would keep their ports open and do their carrying ; that they could bribe privateers enough , under their letters of marque , to destroy the commerce of the North ; that they would soon despatch honest Abraham to the ...
... England and France would keep their ports open and do their carrying ; that they could bribe privateers enough , under their letters of marque , to destroy the commerce of the North ; that they would soon despatch honest Abraham to the ...
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... England ; see the abolition of serfdom in Russia . France , too , is bearing a testimony against slavery ; and here while I write the mails come with the fact , " that a law for the abolition of slavery in the Dutch West Indias , in ...
... England ; see the abolition of serfdom in Russia . France , too , is bearing a testimony against slavery ; and here while I write the mails come with the fact , " that a law for the abolition of slavery in the Dutch West Indias , in ...
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... England propound a great many practical questions in regard to these matters , besides those I have already mooted , a few of which I will here entertain . First in regard to the South . " Are not the slaves generally well cared for by ...
... England propound a great many practical questions in regard to these matters , besides those I have already mooted , a few of which I will here entertain . First in regard to the South . " Are not the slaves generally well cared for by ...
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Page 18 - States, so called, the people whereof may not then be in rebellion against the United States, and -which States may then have voluntarily adopted or thereafter may voluntarily adopt the immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their respective limits...
Page 18 - ... 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...
Page 31 - We eat together, trade together, and practise, yet, in intercourse, with great respect, the courtesies of common life. But the real contest is between the two forms of society which have become established — -the one at the North and the other at the South. Society is essentially different from government — as different as is the nut from the bur, or the nervous body of the...
Page 31 - ... mere matter of policy, it has been considered best for the South to strike out for herself and establish an independence of her own. This, I fear, is an inadequate conception of the controversy.
Page 31 - South, for our relations have been pleasant, and on neutral grounds there is still nothing to estrange us. We eat together, trade together, and practise yet in intercourse, with great respect, the courtesies of common life. But the real contest is between the two forms of society which have become established, the one at the North and the other at the South.
Page 31 - The South is now in the formation of a slave republic. This, perhaps, is not admitted generally. There are many contented to believe that the South, as a geographical section, is in mere assertion of its independence ; that it is instinct with no especial truth, pregnant of no distinct social nature; that for some unaccountable reason the two sections have become opposed to each other; that for reasons equally insufficient there is disagreement between the...
Page 31 - The one is a society composed of one race, the other of two races. The one is bound together but by the two great social relations of husband and wife, and parent and child; the other by the three relations of husband and wife, and parent and child, and master and slave. The one embodies in its political structure the principle that equality is the right of man; the other that it is the right of equals only.
Page 31 - South as geographical sections, for between such sections merely there can be no contest ; nor between the people of the North and the people of the South, for our relations have been pleasant; and on neutral grounds there is still nothing to estrange us. We eat together, trade together, and practice, yet, in intercourse, with great respect, the courtesies of common life.
Page 31 - Tho one is bound together but by th« two great social relations of husband and wife and parent and child ; the other by the three relations of husband and wife, and parent and child, and master and slave. The one embodies in its political structure the principle that equality is the right of man ; the other that it is the right of equals only. The one, embodying...
Page 31 - is now in the formation of a Slave republic. This, perhaps, is not admitted generally. There are many contented to believe that the South, as a geographical section, is in mere assertion of its independence ; that it is instinct with no...