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... question , except in the district of Columbia , and in the territories not yet organized into states , were left to local state legislation . The national government could not adopt the institution , for it was directly antagonistic to ...
... question , except in the district of Columbia , and in the territories not yet organized into states , were left to local state legislation . The national government could not adopt the institution , for it was directly antagonistic to ...
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... question the validity of her governmental policy ? But to separate the Southern from the Northern states , is to divide rivers and mainland more geographically compact , only on a larger scale , than England itself . It is stated here ...
... question the validity of her governmental policy ? But to separate the Southern from the Northern states , is to divide rivers and mainland more geographically compact , only on a larger scale , than England itself . It is stated here ...
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... question we will have to look a moment at the magnitude of the pro - slavery power the government had to deal with , and some of the complex difficulties of the question itself . There are only about three hundred thousand slaveholders ...
... question we will have to look a moment at the magnitude of the pro - slavery power the government had to deal with , and some of the complex difficulties of the question itself . There are only about three hundred thousand slaveholders ...
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... question freely , and with favourable approximate results . Governor Johnson , of Tennessee , in a speech delivered in Nashville , the capital of the state , last fourth of July , said , among many other sharp things , " If a negro is ...
... question freely , and with favourable approximate results . Governor Johnson , of Tennessee , in a speech delivered in Nashville , the capital of the state , last fourth of July , said , among many other sharp things , " If a negro is ...
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... question of American slavery is so complicated that human wisdom cannot solve it . " The institution " cannot be removed by moral appliances , as in the glorious example of the British government in her West India colonies . Here the ...
... question of American slavery is so complicated that human wisdom cannot solve it . " The institution " cannot be removed by moral appliances , as in the glorious example of the British government in her West India colonies . Here the ...
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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...