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... cultivation of the cotton plant , and the type of labor which it permitted . From the earliest days of Amer- ican colonization there had been divergent + tendencies to separate the plantations of the southern seaboard from 30 VINU.
... cultivation of the cotton plant , and the type of labor which it permitted . From the earliest days of Amer- ican colonization there had been divergent + tendencies to separate the plantations of the southern seaboard from 30 VINU.
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... labor supply was great . In a new country the invitation to work must always be more generous than the response of workers . But in North and South this invitation called for different answers . The northern laborer before 1830 was most ...
... labor supply was great . In a new country the invitation to work must always be more generous than the response of workers . But in North and South this invitation called for different answers . The northern laborer before 1830 was most ...
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... labor that could not justify its existence in the North . Had half - civilized negro laborers been usable in the North , slavery would have flourished there , for labor was in high demand , and the average ethics of the seventeenth ...
... labor that could not justify its existence in the North . Had half - civilized negro laborers been usable in the North , slavery would have flourished there , for labor was in high demand , and the average ethics of the seventeenth ...
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... labor systems of the northern and southern states ; but there were many other differences among the sectionalistic and localistic states that were believed to be more serious . " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be ...
... labor systems of the northern and southern states ; but there were many other differences among the sectionalistic and localistic states that were believed to be more serious . " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be ...
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... labor , and had been so manifestly predeter- mined in this that Congress had been able in 1787 to respond to a new humanitarian sentiment and forbid slavery , forever , in the Old Northwest . The Southwest throve on the cotton crop ...
... labor , and had been so manifestly predeter- mined in this that Congress had been able in 1787 to respond to a new humanitarian sentiment and forbid slavery , forever , in the Old Northwest . The Southwest throve on the cotton crop ...
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Page 108 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not 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 ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 45 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 215 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him ; and he became captain over them : and there were with him about four hundred men.
Page 219 - Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?
Page 46 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 109 - ... 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 166 - In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front and rear without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.
Page 86 - If I maintain those principles, and adhere to that policy, I must surrender the case itself. It will be seen, therefore, that this government could not deny the justice of the claim presented to us in this respect upon its merits. We are asked to do to the British nation just what we have always insisted all nations ought to do to us.
Page 86 - If I decide this case in favor of my own Government I must disavow its most cherished principles and reverse and forever abandon its essential policy. The country cannot afford the sacrifice. If I maintain those principles and adhere to that policy I must surrender the case itself. It will be seen therefore that this Government could not deny the justice...
Page 157 - Come West : take to yourself the whole Mississippi Valley. Let. us make it dead sure — and I tell you the Atlantic slopes and Pacific shores will follow its destiny, as sure as the limbs of a tree live or die with the main trunk.