The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick Brothers, 1857 - 420 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 50
Page 17
... PENNSYLVANIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA . An old gentleman , now residing in Charleston , told us , but a few months since , that he had a distinct recollection of the time when Charleston imported foreign fabrics for the Philadelphia trade ...
... PENNSYLVANIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA . An old gentleman , now residing in Charleston , told us , but a few months since , that he had a distinct recollection of the time when Charleston imported foreign fabrics for the Philadelphia trade ...
Page 19
... Pennsylvania , was $ 422,598,640 ; the value of the same in South Carolina , in the same year , was only $ 86,518,038 . From a compendium of the same census , we learn that the value of all the real and personal property in Pennsylvania ...
... Pennsylvania , was $ 422,598,640 ; the value of the same in South Carolina , in the same year , was only $ 86,518,038 . From a compendium of the same census , we learn that the value of all the real and personal property in Pennsylvania ...
Page 20
... Pennsylvania 310 newspapers and pe- riodicals were published , circulating 84,898,672 copies an- nually ; in South Carolina only 46 newspapers and peri- odicals were published , circulating but 7,145,930 copies per annum . The ...
... Pennsylvania 310 newspapers and pe- riodicals were published , circulating 84,898,672 copies an- nually ; in South Carolina only 46 newspapers and peri- odicals were published , circulating but 7,145,930 copies per annum . The ...
Page 35
... Pennsylvania .. Ohio ... Rhode Island .... 14,487,351 13,472,742 59,078,695 15,367,691 21,538,156 19,835,214 49 215,232 539.201 Vermont ...... 535,955 2,307,734 2,032,396 Wisconsin ... 4,286,131 3,414,672 1,988,979 72,157,486 96,590,371 ...
... Pennsylvania .. Ohio ... Rhode Island .... 14,487,351 13,472,742 59,078,695 15,367,691 21,538,156 19,835,214 49 215,232 539.201 Vermont ...... 535,955 2,307,734 2,032,396 Wisconsin ... 4,286,131 3,414,672 1,988,979 72,157,486 96,590,371 ...
Page 36
... Pennsylvania .. Rhode Island .. Vermont ..... 2,285,048 78,792 45,483 282,363 19,916 25,093 3,436,040 102,916 151,731 .... 3,585,384 481,021 112,385 2,361,074 105,871 75,249 4,307,919 183,117 70,256 3,715,251 1,255,578 6,492 ...
... Pennsylvania .. Rhode Island .. Vermont ..... 2,285,048 78,792 45,483 282,363 19,916 25,093 3,436,040 102,916 151,731 .... 3,585,384 481,021 112,385 2,361,074 105,871 75,249 4,307,919 183,117 70,256 3,715,251 1,255,578 6,492 ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abolition of slavery abolitionist acre admitted agricultural Alabama American amount annually Arkansas average bushels California census cents Charleston commerce Connecticut cotton curse degradation Delaware duty emancipation evil extract fact favor Florida free labor freedom Georgia H. R. HELPER Hampshire holders honor human human bondage hundred ignorance Illinois Indiana institution interests Iowa Jefferson Jersey justice Kentucky land less liberty literature Louisiana manufactures March Maryland Massachusetts master ment merchants Michigan millions of dollars mind Mississippi Missouri moral nation nature negroes never New-York non-slaveholding whites North Carolina Northern Ohio oligarchy patriotism Pennsylvania political population present principles pro-slavery profit prosperity published real and personal Rhode Island says slave labor SLAVE STATES-1850 slave-driving slaveholders society soil South Southern Southern literature square miles TABLE Tennessee territory Texas thousand tion truth Union Vermont Virginia VOICE vote wealth whole Wisconsin York
Popular passages
Page 277 - And I will come near to you to judgment; And I will be a swift witness Against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, And against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, The widow, and the fatherless, And that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, Saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 263 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 412 - And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul ; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day...
Page 197 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain.
Page 217 - That no free government, or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
Page 195 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
Page 217 - That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to the community, have the right of suffrage...
Page 247 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 276 - Therefore thus saith the Lord ; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Page 195 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and...