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 ...
... 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 ...
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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 American annexation anti-slavery become capital career carried cause character circumstances civilization colonization condition Confederacy confined Congress connexion consequences considerable Constitution contest cotton crops cultivation d'esclaves democratic districts Dred Scott economic effect emancipation employed established états exist fact favour Federal fertile force free labour freedom Fugitive Slave Law increase independence industry influence institutions interests Kansas Kentucky l'esclavage land less Louisiana means ment Mexico Missouri Compromise mode moral Morrill tariff nations nature necessity negro North America Northern object Olmsted Olmsted's once peasant peculiar persons planters political portion position present principle productive profitable proprietors purpose question race regarded result says secession Senate 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 tobacco ultimate extinction Union United Virginia wealth whole
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Page ix - ... and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
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 - An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Page 90 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
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 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 131 - Thus he lived, and thus he died like a saint, unspotted of the world, full of alms-deeds, full of humility, and all the examples of a virtuous life ; which I cannot conclude better, than with this borrowed observation : - All must to their cold graves ; But the religious actions of the just Smell sweet in death, and blossom in the dust.
Page x - ... approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : — SECTION 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,...
Page x - And I do hereby enjoin upon and order all persons engaged in the military and naval service of the United States to observe, obey, and enforce, within their respective spheres of service, the act and sections above recited. And the Executive will in due time recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained...
Page ix - That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all...