History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, Volume 2J. R. Osgood, 1875 - Antislavery movements |
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... Southern States . The canvass - - 150-160 CHAPTER XIV . - JOHN QUINCY ADAMS . Death of Mr. Adams . - His earnest advocacy of the right of petition . - Change of views concerning Abolitionism . - Democratic defeat in the State of New ...
... Southern States . The canvass - - 150-160 CHAPTER XIV . - JOHN QUINCY ADAMS . Death of Mr. Adams . - His earnest advocacy of the right of petition . - Change of views concerning Abolitionism . - Democratic defeat in the State of New ...
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... SOUTHERN CAUCUS . New aspect of the slavery issue presented by the Mexican war . - Speeches by Southern members , Clingman , Stephens . — Proslavery views of North- ern members , Thompson , Brown . — Effective speech of McDowell ...
... SOUTHERN CAUCUS . New aspect of the slavery issue presented by the Mexican war . - Speeches by Southern members , Clingman , Stephens . — Proslavery views of North- ern members , Thompson , Brown . — Effective speech of McDowell ...
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... Southern divisions . - General demoralization . Mr. Clay's influence . Threats of disunion by Clemens , Toombs , and Holmes . - Nashville convention . Meeting of Southern members . -- - - Speeches of Soulé and McDowell - 272-290 CHAPTER ...
... Southern divisions . - General demoralization . Mr. Clay's influence . Threats of disunion by Clemens , Toombs , and Holmes . - Nashville convention . Meeting of Southern members . -- - - Speeches of Soulé and McDowell - 272-290 CHAPTER ...
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... Southern feeling and purpose . Meeting at Cincinnati . — Union degree . - Kenneth Raynor . - Defeat in Vir- ginia . - National Council at Philadelphia . — Southern purpose . -Hos- tility towards Massachusetts . - Mr. Wilson . - Banquet ...
... Southern feeling and purpose . Meeting at Cincinnati . — Union degree . - Kenneth Raynor . - Defeat in Vir- ginia . - National Council at Philadelphia . — Southern purpose . -Hos- tility towards Massachusetts . - Mr. Wilson . - Banquet ...
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... Southern demonstrations . Indorsed by Southern members . — Burlingame's speech . - Comins's speech . - Challenge of Brooks . — Chal- lenge accepted . Brooks refuses to fight . - Burlingame's reception in Boston . Speech . - Meeting in ...
... Southern demonstrations . Indorsed by Southern members . — Burlingame's speech . - Comins's speech . - Challenge of Brooks . — Chal- lenge accepted . Brooks refuses to fight . - Burlingame's reception in Boston . Speech . - Meeting in ...
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Page 526 - 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 246 - While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, — for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise!
Page 71 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 571 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Page 570 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Page 204 - I shall be fully convinced of what I more than suspect already — that he is deeply conscious of being in the wrong ; that he feels the blood of this war, like the blood of Abel, is crying to Heaven against him...
Page 165 - can nothing be done for freedom because the public conscience is inert?' Yes, much can be done — everything can be done. Slavery can be limited to its present bounds, it can be ameliorated, it can be and must be abolished, and you and I can and must do it.
Page 574 - It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Page 528 - Upon these considerations, it is the opinion of the Court that the act of Congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind in the territory of the United States north of the line therein mentioned, is not warranted by the Constitution, and is therefore void...
Page 468 - I advise you, one and all, to enter every election district in Kansas, in defiance of Reeder and his vile myrmidons, and vote at the point of the bowie-knife and revolver. Neither give nor take quarter, as our cause demands it. It is enough that the slaveholding interest wills it, from which there is no appeal.