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... wealth , our standing as a nation , our domestic safety while the elements of peril are around us , with peace and tranquillity accompanied by unbounded prosperity , and rights unassailed - is the height of madness , folly , and ...
... wealth , our standing as a nation , our domestic safety while the elements of peril are around us , with peace and tranquillity accompanied by unbounded prosperity , and rights unassailed - is the height of madness , folly , and ...
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... wealth . " 3 Thus the true reason why the people of the Slave States to - day 1 Helper , op . cit . p . 163 . 2 Cairnes , op . cit . pp . 127-137 . It might have been supposable , à priori , that , under such a drain as this , slavery ...
... wealth . " 3 Thus the true reason why the people of the Slave States to - day 1 Helper , op . cit . p . 163 . 2 Cairnes , op . cit . pp . 127-137 . It might have been supposable , à priori , that , under such a drain as this , slavery ...
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... wealth " obtainable therefrom , which has so changed its whole aspect in the estima- tion of Southern statesmen , and has induced them to make it ' the corner - stone " of their new political fabric . 66 ... slaves on a farm will ...
... wealth " obtainable therefrom , which has so changed its whole aspect in the estima- tion of Southern statesmen , and has induced them to make it ' the corner - stone " of their new political fabric . 66 ... slaves on a farm will ...
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... wealth of the country ) , that in a few years it would be im- possible to support them within the limits of such county . Both master and slave would be starved out ; and what would be the practical effect in 1 For a sketch of these ...
... wealth of the country ) , that in a few years it would be im- possible to support them within the limits of such county . Both master and slave would be starved out ; and what would be the practical effect in 1 For a sketch of these ...
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... wealth to enable it to pay its war - debt , and its future ex- penses , pictures in rapturous language its " empire in the future , extending from the home of Washington to the ancient palaces of Montezuma , uniting the proud old ...
... wealth to enable it to pay its war - debt , and its future ex- penses , pictures in rapturous language its " empire in the future , extending from the home of Washington to the ancient palaces of Montezuma , uniting the proud old ...
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Page 8 - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary.
Page 9 - The committee of the states, or any nine of them, shall be authorized to execute, in the recess of Congress, such of the powers of Congress» as the United States in Congress assembled, by the consent of nine states, shall from time to time think expedient to vest them with ; provided that no power be delegated to the said committee, for the exercise of which, by the articles of confederation, the voice of nine states, in the Congress of the United States assembled, is requisite.
Page 20 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 13 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Page 6 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our •view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 5 - America, agree to certain articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. ... ARTICLE 1. The style of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America.
Page 38 - ... most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away.
Page 36 - Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of Heaven on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities.
Page 31 - African slavery as it exists among us — the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the rock upon which the old Union would split.
Page 31 - 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.