The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American Contest |
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... South . - Growth of the pro - slavery sentiment . — Its absorbing strength.- Its universality ... southern aggression . - The political motive mainly ope- rative . True ... party . CONTENTS . xiii First trial of strength of the new.
... South . - Growth of the pro - slavery sentiment . — Its absorbing strength.- Its universality ... southern aggression . - The political motive mainly ope- rative . True ... party . CONTENTS . xiii First trial of strength of the new.
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... party . - Hopeful prospects . - Southern policy of " Thorough " : I. Revival of the African slave trade ; Agitation for reopening the African slave trade ; Importation of slaves actually com- menced . II . Perversion of the Constitution ...
... party . - Hopeful prospects . - Southern policy of " Thorough " : I. Revival of the African slave trade ; Agitation for reopening the African slave trade ; Importation of slaves actually com- menced . II . Perversion of the Constitution ...
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... party became supreme in the legislature ; and in what way did they employ ... South . Since the breaking out of hostilities , again , some of the most ... parties with the geographical division of slave and free States is an accident ...
... party became supreme in the legislature ; and in what way did they employ ... South . Since the breaking out of hostilities , again , some of the most ... parties with the geographical division of slave and free States is an accident ...
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... Southern senators while car- rying out the programme of secession , which ... Party ? We are asked by this theory to believe that the South has had ... Southern State ( Virginia ) , employed by a Southern President ( Jackson ) , that the ...
... Southern senators while car- rying out the programme of secession , which ... Party ? We are asked by this theory to believe that the South has had ... Southern State ( Virginia ) , employed by a Southern President ( Jackson ) , that the ...
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... South - commenced for no other reason , on no other pretext , than because a ... party , so long as it could employ the powers of the Government in pro ... party whose distinctive principle was to impose a limit on the further exten- sion ...
... South - commenced for no other reason , on no other pretext , than because a ... party , so long as it could employ the powers of the Government in pro ... party whose distinctive principle was to impose a limit on the further exten- sion ...
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African slave trade aggressive agriculture American annexation anti-slavery become capital career carried cause character circumstances civilization colonization condition Confederacy confined Congress connexion consequences considerable Constitution contest cotton crops cultivation d'esclaves democratic districts economic effect emancipation employed established états exist fact favour Federal fertile force free labour freedom Fugitive Slave Law increase independence industry influence institutions interests Jefferson Davis Kansas Kentucky l'Union land less Louisiana means ment Mexico Missouri Compromise mode moral Morrill tariff nations natural necessity negro North America Northern object Olmsted Olmsted's once peasant peculiar persons planters political portion position present principle productive profitable proprietors purpose question race regarded result secession Senate slave labour Slave party slave population Slave Power slave societies slaveholders social soil South Southern Southern party success tariff tariff of 1832 territory Texas tion tobacco ultimate extinction Union United Virginia wealth whole