The Progress and Intelligence of Americans: Proof of Slavery, from the First Chapter of Genesis, as Founded on Organic Law; Progress of Slavery South and South-West, with Free Labor Advancing, Through the Acquistion [sic] of Territory; Advantages Enumerated and Explained1862 - African Americans - 508 pages |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 51
Page 34
... possessing degrees of humanity ; but not humanity itself , and why ? because , has their past history indicated even a foreshadow of humanity ? If the people of the New England and the Middle States , even the Quakers themselves , had ...
... possessing degrees of humanity ; but not humanity itself , and why ? because , has their past history indicated even a foreshadow of humanity ? If the people of the New England and the Middle States , even the Quakers themselves , had ...
Page 43
... possessed by the negroes of the South , of Cuba or Brazil . Such is the oppres- sion of man to his own color , that he blushes not to feel himself a man tinctured with inhumanity and wanton cruelty to man ! Such is the degradation of ...
... possessed by the negroes of the South , of Cuba or Brazil . Such is the oppres- sion of man to his own color , that he blushes not to feel himself a man tinctured with inhumanity and wanton cruelty to man ! Such is the degradation of ...
Page 46
... possessing the richest and most exuberant soils and the most salubrious climate upon their table lands known to man ! Like these , we are discontent to be prosper- ous and happy , but in becoming jealous and envious of each other in the ...
... possessing the richest and most exuberant soils and the most salubrious climate upon their table lands known to man ! Like these , we are discontent to be prosper- ous and happy , but in becoming jealous and envious of each other in the ...
Page 52
... possesses that causes it typically to re- volve in its orbit , and by the means of its centripical and centrifugal forces , which are defined by the terms general government and state governments , that one is kept from absorbing the ...
... possesses that causes it typically to re- volve in its orbit , and by the means of its centripical and centrifugal forces , which are defined by the terms general government and state governments , that one is kept from absorbing the ...
Page 87
... possessing no proper sense of the inestimable value of the right . Those who would tolerate the sup- pression of free speech , even in a seditious fanatic like Wendell Phillips , are not sufficiently in sympathy with the great American ...
... possessing no proper sense of the inestimable value of the right . Those who would tolerate the sup- pression of free speech , even in a seditious fanatic like Wendell Phillips , are not sufficiently in sympathy with the great American ...
Other editions - View all
The Progress and Intelligence of Americans: Proof of Slavery, from the First ... No preview available - 2020 |
Common terms and phrases
Abolition Abolitionism Abolitionists African behold bipeds body Caucasian Caucasian race Central America chapter of Genesis citizens civil clause climate command common sense Congress consequently Constitution created Crittenden dominion earth emancipation equal existences of color fact female force former fruit God's Government Hence human inanimate or animate Indian inferior kind kingdom land of Nod lands letter and spirit living creature lower Malay manifest matter means ment Mexico military mind Mongolian nations natural negro North order of creation organic law ovary philosophy of reason plants population portion possessing present President principles proclamation produce progressive existences prosperity proved reason and common rebel reference Republican resemblance respect Secessionism seeds slave labor slavery South America Southern square miles subordinate territory thing tion tree tropical United vegetable verse he says vote West Indies white nations white race whole
Popular passages
Page 111 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 211 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 108 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 110 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Page 108 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Page 107 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night: and the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 107 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 109 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 480 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 480 - That the new dogma, that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States, is a dangerous political heresy, at variance with the explicit provisions of that instrument itself, with contemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent; is revolutionary in its tendency and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country.