The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement |
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... facts and to deal with a situation as he found it , and not to try to order the world by general and abstract ideals . He was intensely practical , responsive to each present call of duty , and in his concep- tion of duty taking wider ...
... facts and to deal with a situation as he found it , and not to try to order the world by general and abstract ideals . He was intensely practical , responsive to each present call of duty , and in his concep- tion of duty taking wider ...
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... facts . Slavery was regarded by all as an evil , and by most as a wrong . Even its champions in the convention claimed no more for it than that it was a necessary evil ; one of the Pinckneys expressed the hope of its extinction at an ...
... facts . Slavery was regarded by all as an evil , and by most as a wrong . Even its champions in the convention claimed no more for it than that it was a necessary evil ; one of the Pinckneys expressed the hope of its extinction at an ...
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... fact , and even lending himself to its eulogy . In the first debate he had advocated the Southern side , had extolled slavery , and declared the black slaves of the South to be better off than the white slaves of the North . Now he gave ...
... fact , and even lending himself to its eulogy . In the first debate he had advocated the Southern side , had extolled slavery , and declared the black slaves of the South to be better off than the white slaves of the North . Now he gave ...
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... fact , so far as my knowledge extends , universally conceded . Negro marriages are neither recognized nor protected by law . Uncleanness - this sin may be considered as universal . They are proverbial thieves . " But how could ...
... fact , so far as my knowledge extends , universally conceded . Negro marriages are neither recognized nor protected by law . Uncleanness - this sin may be considered as universal . They are proverbial thieves . " But how could ...
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... fact , live on the labor of the other . " And generally , he adds , the con- dition of the laborer has been worse than it now is in the South . In advance of civilization , he declares , there always comes a conflict between capital and ...
... fact , live on the labor of the other . " And generally , he adds , the con- dition of the laborer has been worse than it now is in the South . In advance of civilization , he declares , there always comes a conflict between capital and ...
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Page 245 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is no.t either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it 5 and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 250 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 7 - 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 221 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 103 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, 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 206 - For instance, why may not any portion of a new confederacy a year or two hence arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it? All who cherish disunion sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this.
Page 136 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Page 380 - Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth. And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field.
Page 250 - And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 157 - I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood. I had as I now think vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.