De Bow's Review and Industrial Resources, Statistics, Etc: Devoted to Commerce, Agriculture, Manufactures, Volume 25James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell J. D. B. DeBow., 1858 - Industries |
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... Union , 374 ; Free Negroes , 375 ; Diplomacy of Revolution , 376 ; Book Notices , Notes , etc. , 378 ; Harper's Ferry , White Sulphur Springs , 483 ; Vir- ginia Springs , Old Point Comfort , 484 ; Tallahassee , Florida , 485 ; Indian ...
... Union , 374 ; Free Negroes , 375 ; Diplomacy of Revolution , 376 ; Book Notices , Notes , etc. , 378 ; Harper's Ferry , White Sulphur Springs , 483 ; Vir- ginia Springs , Old Point Comfort , 484 ; Tallahassee , Florida , 485 ; Indian ...
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... . 463 Norfolk , Virginia . 226 North and South - their Relations to the Union .. 316 133 7 249 119 376 27 , 45 571 51 53 55 285 ... 239 ..... 559 , 566 ALPHABETICAL INDEX . VII Ohio Agriculture .. 97 Slave Trade VI ALPHABETICAL INDEX .
... . 463 Norfolk , Virginia . 226 North and South - their Relations to the Union .. 316 133 7 249 119 376 27 , 45 571 51 53 55 285 ... 239 ..... 559 , 566 ALPHABETICAL INDEX . VII Ohio Agriculture .. 97 Slave Trade VI ALPHABETICAL INDEX .
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... Union .... 316 108 487 118 589 South - Her Future .. Southern School Books ... South - Its Development .... Southern Support to the Union ... 78 721 Southern Convention .. 112 Southern League .. Railroads of United States .. Railroads ...
... Union .... 316 108 487 118 589 South - Her Future .. Southern School Books ... South - Its Development .... Southern Support to the Union ... 78 721 Southern Convention .. 112 Southern League .. Railroads of United States .. Railroads ...
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... Union , except through the present ( not a future , Seward ) Supreme Court . A case might be brought before it in this way : say an executor of an estate , or an assignee of an insolvent , should refuse to pay a claim on them from a ...
... Union , except through the present ( not a future , Seward ) Supreme Court . A case might be brought before it in this way : say an executor of an estate , or an assignee of an insolvent , should refuse to pay a claim on them from a ...
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... Union , Switzerland , Austria , Russia , and Sweden . All classifications are quite ready of sale , but mid- dling to middling fair are the most sought for . In fact , Bre- men and Hamburg import more American cotton than any other ...
... Union , Switzerland , Austria , Russia , and Sweden . All classifications are quite ready of sale , but mid- dling to middling fair are the most sought for . In fact , Bre- men and Hamburg import more American cotton than any other ...
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Page 145 - Government, as resulting from the compact to which the states are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and...
Page 135 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 638 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 140 - Their object is disunion; but be not deceived by names; disunion, by armed force, is TREASON. Are you really ready to incur its guilt? If you are, on the heads of the instigators of the act be the dreadful consequences — on their heads be the dishonor, but on yours may fall the punishment — on your unhappy state will inevitably fall all the evils of the conflict you force upon the government of your country.
Page 248 - My life is like the prints which feet Have left on Tampa's desert strand; Soon as the rising tide shall beat, All trace will vanish from the sand; Yet, as if grieving to efface All vestige of the human race, On that lone shore loud moans the sea — But none, alas! shall mourn for me!
Page 172 - And it was so, that all that saw it, said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.
Page 520 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : provided always, that any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 142 - AN ORDINANCE To Nullify certain acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be Laws laying Duties and Imposts on the importation of Foreign Commodities.
Page 645 - Yet the men who framed this declaration were great men — high in literary acquirements — high in their sense of honor, and incapable of asserting principles inconsistent with those on which they were acting. They perfectly understood the meaning of the language they used, and how it would be understood by others; and they knew that it would not in any part of the civilized world be supposed to embrace the negro race, which, by common consent, had been excluded from civilized Governments and the...
Page 666 - Which being performed, according to the ceremonies used in such enterprises, we viewed the land about us, being, whereas we first landed, very sandie and low towards the waters side, but so full of grapes, as the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them...