The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement |
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... holds men even exceptionally high- minded from breaking strong ties of custom and conve- nience is shown by a letter of Patrick Henry to a Quaker in 1773 , in which he declared slavery " as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent ...
... holds men even exceptionally high- minded from breaking strong ties of custom and conve- nience is shown by a letter of Patrick Henry to a Quaker in 1773 , in which he declared slavery " as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent ...
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... hold was slight ; it was plainly destined to sweep at least through all the Northern and Middle States , and hope was high that it might go farther . But this moral enthusiasm broke help- less against the institution wherever a strong ...
... hold was slight ; it was plainly destined to sweep at least through all the Northern and Middle States , and hope was high that it might go farther . But this moral enthusiasm broke help- less against the institution wherever a strong ...
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... hold of an aristocracy affording to its upper class a fascinating leisure and luxury - these , and the absence of any high moral inspiration in the movement , brought it to naught . Instead of decreeing emancipation , the Legislature ...
... hold of an aristocracy affording to its upper class a fascinating leisure and luxury - these , and the absence of any high moral inspiration in the movement , brought it to naught . Instead of decreeing emancipation , the Legislature ...
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... hold on or to let go . " But one or the other must be done , and the South elected to keep on holding the wolf . The better to understand the developments of the fol- lowing years , it will be well to consider a group of repre ...
... hold on or to let go . " But one or the other must be done , and the South elected to keep on holding the wolf . The better to understand the developments of the fol- lowing years , it will be well to consider a group of repre ...
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... hold that there never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not , in point of fact , live on the labor of the other . " And generally , he adds , the con- dition of the laborer has ...
... hold that there never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not , in point of fact , live on the labor of the other . " And generally , he adds , the con- dition of the laborer has ...
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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.