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... whites in social and political bondage , and besides , through social , commercial , and political appliances , held ... white trash , " had to do the best they could to live at all . This grand monopoly of human flesh and bones , and ...
... whites in social and political bondage , and besides , through social , commercial , and political appliances , held ... white trash , " had to do the best they could to live at all . This grand monopoly of human flesh and bones , and ...
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... White House at Washington , and subjugate the whole North at will . They had meantime trained the South to believe that the Abolitionists were preparing to break down the constitution , raise an insurrection among the slaves , and ...
... White House at Washington , and subjugate the whole North at will . They had meantime trained the South to believe that the Abolitionists were preparing to break down the constitution , raise an insurrection among the slaves , and ...
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... white men and ministers of the Gospel were driven out of the South on a suspicion of disloyalty to " the institution . " The Missouri Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church , during Conference Session , in 1858 , while the ...
... white men and ministers of the Gospel were driven out of the South on a suspicion of disloyalty to " the institution . " The Missouri Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church , during Conference Session , in 1858 , while the ...
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... whites of the South ? " Not at all , but liberate all her slaves , and emancipate her poor whites as well . For if the Lord may but teach the non - slaveholding whites of the South the cause of their degradation , and the horrors of war ...
... whites of the South ? " Not at all , but liberate all her slaves , and emancipate her poor whites as well . For if the Lord may but teach the non - slaveholding whites of the South the cause of their degradation , and the horrors of war ...
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... whites , and possibly thousands of slaveholders who would be led to recognize and acquiesce in the unmistakeable decisions of God's providence , together with an immense immigration of freemen from the North , who have only been kept ...
... whites , and possibly thousands of slaveholders who would be led to recognize and acquiesce in the unmistakeable decisions of God's providence , together with an immense immigration of freemen from the North , who have only been kept ...
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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...