The Slave Power : Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American Contest |
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... course of lectures delivered about a year since in the Uni- versity of Dublin . In selecting the subject of North American slavery I was influenced in the first instance by considerations of a purely specu- lative kind - my object being ...
... course of lectures delivered about a year since in the Uni- versity of Dublin . In selecting the subject of North American slavery I was influenced in the first instance by considerations of a purely specu- lative kind - my object being ...
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... course of internal development : Inherent difficulty of the problem ; Modern precedents inapplicable ; Economic causes not to be relied on ; Political and social motives the real strength of American slavery ; Further support to slavery ...
... course of internal development : Inherent difficulty of the problem ; Modern precedents inapplicable ; Economic causes not to be relied on ; Political and social motives the real strength of American slavery ; Further support to slavery ...
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... course . The agitation for secession was therefore pronounced to be a political feint intended to cover a real movement in some other direction . But when the contest had passed beyond its first stages , when the example set by South ...
... course . The agitation for secession was therefore pronounced to be a political feint intended to cover a real movement in some other direction . But when the contest had passed beyond its first stages , when the example set by South ...
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... course . If we ask why this was made the ground for revolt , I believe the true answer , as I have just intimated , is to be found in the aims of the Slave Power , -aims which were inconsistent with its remaining in the Union while the ...
... course . If we ask why this was made the ground for revolt , I believe the true answer , as I have just intimated , is to be found in the aims of the Slave Power , -aims which were inconsistent with its remaining in the Union while the ...
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... course that the North was compelled to join issue . The contest thus springing from slavery , and involving , as will be shewn , consequences of the most momentous kind in connexion with the future well - being of the human race in ...
... course that the North was compelled to join issue . The contest thus springing from slavery , and involving , as will be shewn , consequences of the most momentous kind in connexion with the future well - being of the human race in ...
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African slave trade aggressive agriculture ambition American annexation anti-slavery become career carried cause character circumstances civilization colonization condition Confederacy confined Congress connexion consequences considerable Constitution contest cotton crops cultivation Democratic despotism districts economic effect emancipation equal established exist fact favour Federal fertile force free labour freedom Fugitive Slave Law ground human important increase independence industry influence institution interests Kansas land less Louisiana master mean whites ment Mexico Missouri Compromise mode moral Morrill tariff nations natural necessity negro North America Northern object Olmsted's once peculiar persons planters political portion position present principle productive profitable progress proprietors purpose question race regarded result secession Senate settlement slave labour Slave party slave population Slave Power slave societies slaveholders social soil South Southern Southern party success tariff tariff of 1832 territory Texas tion ultimate extinction Union United Virginia wealth West Indies whole
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Page ix - That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be, in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 126 - 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 120 - ... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the constitution against all attempts to violate it ; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Page 95 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page x - ... approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: "SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the government of the United States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the government of the United States; and...
Page 115 - Nebraska bill declared, in so many words, that it was the true intent and meaning of the act not to legislate slavery into any State or Territory, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.
Page x - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any...
Page 96 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page ix - ... 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 ix - I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and each of the States and the people thereof in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed.