But, not to be tedious in enumerating the numerous changes for the better, allow me to allude to one other — though last, not least: the new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution — African... The Atlantic Monthly - Page 1101863Full view - About this book
| Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...at rest for ever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution, African slavery. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. The prevailing ideas entertained by Jefferson and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 60 pages
...Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating queMont relating to our peculiar institutions — African slavery as it exists among us — the proper...CAUSE OF THE LATE RUPTURE AND PRESENT REVOLUTION." Read the record ! He further says : We are now the nucleus of a growing power, which, if true to ourselves,... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 560 pages
...Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions — African Slavery as it exists among us — the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. Tliis was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast,... | |
| History - 1862 - 36 pages
...has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us, the proper status of...This was the immediate cause of the late rupture, and of the present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated-this as the rock upon which... | |
| Constitutions - 1863 - 474 pages
...was, and is, acting as Vice President: " The new Constitution," he says, " has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar...cause of the late rupture and present revolution." This would seem good " Southern" authority for declaring that " slavery is the cause of the war." Certain... | |
| Eliza Wigham - Antislavery movements - 1863 - 180 pages
...slave-holders' Confederacy, says, " Last, not least, the new constitution has put at rest for ever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar...cause of the late rupture and present revolution." Alluding to the ideas of equality of the human race which pervaded the minds of the founders of the... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - Secession - 1863 - 460 pages
...Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions, — African slavery as it exists among us, — the proper...status of the negro in our form of civilization." We shall see whether it has put them at rest " forever " or not. " This was the immediate cause of... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - 1863 - 464 pages
...Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions, — African slavery as it exists among us, — the proper...status of the negro in our form of civilization." We shall see whether it has put them at rest " forever " or not. " This was the immediate cause of... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - Secession - 1863 - 472 pages
...Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions, — African slavery as it exists among us, — the proper...status of the negro in our form of civilization." We shall see whether it has put them at rest " for" This was the immediate cause of the late rupture... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - Secession - 1863 - 468 pages
...Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions, — African slavery •as it exists among us, — the...status of the negro in our form of civilization." We shall see whether it has put them at rest " forever " or not. " This was the immediate cause of... | |
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