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Charles Lempriere. CONTENTS . CHAP . I. THE CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION II . THE NEGRO III . - COTTON IV . - NORTHERN OPINIONS • V. THE AUTHORITIES ON THE QUESTION VI . THE REAL POINTS OF THE QUESTION - VII . THE PRESENT POSITION OF AFFAIRS ...
Charles Lempriere. CONTENTS . CHAP . I. THE CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION II . THE NEGRO III . - COTTON IV . - NORTHERN OPINIONS • V. THE AUTHORITIES ON THE QUESTION VI . THE REAL POINTS OF THE QUESTION - VII . THE PRESENT POSITION OF AFFAIRS ...
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... negro's freedom , and his master is willing to sell him . They foolishly expect to coerce the Southern people to uproot their social fabric , and for ever impoverish themselves and their pos- terity . Nay , more , they have the ...
... negro's freedom , and his master is willing to sell him . They foolishly expect to coerce the Southern people to uproot their social fabric , and for ever impoverish themselves and their pos- terity . Nay , more , they have the ...
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... , in so many instances in Europe , has ushered in amongst the convulsions of empires the utter extinction of law , of commerce , and even of security for life itself . 29 CHAP . II . THE NEGRO . No one 28 PROTECTION , THE REAL REASON .
... , in so many instances in Europe , has ushered in amongst the convulsions of empires the utter extinction of law , of commerce , and even of security for life itself . 29 CHAP . II . THE NEGRO . No one 28 PROTECTION , THE REAL REASON .
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... useful to them- selves and to humanity at large . To emancipate them is to convert 4,000,000 productive workers into as many idle paupers . Who is to support those paupers in their idleness , which with them is synony- THE NEGRO.
... useful to them- selves and to humanity at large . To emancipate them is to convert 4,000,000 productive workers into as many idle paupers . Who is to support those paupers in their idleness , which with them is synony- THE NEGRO.
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... negro has been bought with a price- the price of English taxation and English toil . He has been redeemed from bondage by the sweat and travail of some millions of hard - working English- men . Twenty millions of pounds sterling one ...
... negro has been bought with a price- the price of English taxation and English toil . He has been redeemed from bondage by the sweat and travail of some millions of hard - working English- men . Twenty millions of pounds sterling one ...
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