The Progress and Intelligence of Americans: Proof of Slavery, from the First Chapter of Genesis, as Founded on Organic Law; Progress of Slavery South and South-West, with Free Labor Advancing, Through the Acquistion [sic] of Territory; Advantages Enumerated and Explained1862 - African Americans - 508 pages |
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... United States to exist most abundantly ; more especially in California , Oregon and New Mex- ico . Since the discovery of gold in California , not short of one billion of dollars has been exported from the Pacific coast of the United ...
... United States to exist most abundantly ; more especially in California , Oregon and New Mex- ico . Since the discovery of gold in California , not short of one billion of dollars has been exported from the Pacific coast of the United ...
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... United States , because the multiplicity of its numbers in the course of time , would permit no other alternative , taken in view the natural increase of the whites and the blacks . Some pretend to say that the African can change his 16 ...
... United States , because the multiplicity of its numbers in the course of time , would permit no other alternative , taken in view the natural increase of the whites and the blacks . Some pretend to say that the African can change his 16 ...
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... United States , has many peculiar characteristics , which are little understood outside of the States where it prevails . That the negro is an inferior being to the white man , no one will doubt , from his naturally coarse organizations ...
... United States , has many peculiar characteristics , which are little understood outside of the States where it prevails . That the negro is an inferior being to the white man , no one will doubt , from his naturally coarse organizations ...
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... United States , the great and primordial objects of the Government should be , to increase in national prosperity ; and this can be done only by the division of labor , each portion per- forming that which is fit and compatible to the ...
... United States , the great and primordial objects of the Government should be , to increase in national prosperity ; and this can be done only by the division of labor , each portion per- forming that which is fit and compatible to the ...
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... United States , were we to follow the most moral examples of our most Christian neighbors , which would decrease the luxuries and comforts of the world , to the amount of near 300,000,000 of dollars per year , in the productions of rice ...
... United States , were we to follow the most moral examples of our most Christian neighbors , which would decrease the luxuries and comforts of the world , to the amount of near 300,000,000 of dollars per year , in the productions of rice ...
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Page 111 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 211 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 108 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 110 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Page 108 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Page 107 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night: and the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 107 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 109 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 480 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 480 - That the new dogma, that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States, is a dangerous political heresy, at variance with the explicit provisions of that instrument itself, with contemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent; is revolutionary in its tendency and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country.