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... north , " and British men - of- war which claimed the right of search over their missionary ships . Among the political developments of pro - slaveryism , I may mention- " 6 1st . The repeal of the " Missouri Compromise , " which com ...
... north , " and British men - of- war which claimed the right of search over their missionary ships . Among the political developments of pro - slaveryism , I may mention- " 6 1st . The repeal of the " Missouri Compromise , " which com ...
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... north of that line . 2nd . The " Fugitive Slave Law , " practically extend- ing slavery through all the free states . The South reaping all the pecuniary advantages , and the whole North laid under contribution to catch and return all ...
... north of that line . 2nd . The " Fugitive Slave Law , " practically extend- ing slavery through all the free states . The South reaping all the pecuniary advantages , and the whole North laid under contribution to catch and return all ...
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... North in the way of governmental patronage , and in public government works . All the immense expenditures in the national capital itself were in the South . If we add to this the greatly superior postal revenues of the North , it will ...
... North in the way of governmental patronage , and in public government works . All the immense expenditures in the national capital itself were in the South . If we add to this the greatly superior postal revenues of the North , it will ...
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... North from acquiring the balance of power in the government , which they claimed by right of possession from the first , they have for years been acquiring , by political stratagem and war , and Federal Government money , new territory ...
... North from acquiring the balance of power in the government , which they claimed by right of possession from the first , they have for years been acquiring , by political stratagem and war , and Federal Government money , new territory ...
Page 11
... north- western free states . The mouths of this river , together with the whole state of Louisiana and Florida as well , had been bought by the Federal Government specially to meet the commercial necessities of the nation . In conceding ...
... north- western free states . The mouths of this river , together with the whole state of Louisiana and Florida as well , had been bought by the Federal Government specially to meet the commercial necessities of the nation . In conceding ...
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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...