The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick Brothers, 1857 - 420 pages |
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... moral , and physical , in the great family of man . Neither is it our design to launch into a philosophical disquisition on the laws and principles of light and darkness , with a view of educing any additional evidence of the fact ...
... moral , and physical , in the great family of man . Neither is it our design to launch into a philosophical disquisition on the laws and principles of light and darkness , with a view of educing any additional evidence of the fact ...
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... morally wrong , in the policy under which the South has so long loitered and languished . Else , how is it that the North , under the operations of a policy directly the opposite of ours , has surpassed us in almost everything great and ...
... morally wrong , in the policy under which the South has so long loitered and languished . Else , how is it that the North , under the operations of a policy directly the opposite of ours , has surpassed us in almost everything great and ...
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... moral , and social conditions of States ; he justly remarked , that a numerical statement of the extent , density of population , imports , exports , revenues , etc. , of a country , more per- fectly explained its social condition than ...
... moral , and social conditions of States ; he justly remarked , that a numerical statement of the extent , density of population , imports , exports , revenues , etc. , of a country , more per- fectly explained its social condition than ...
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... moral faculties , and to furnish us with a cor- rect standard of judgment , by enabling us to determine the average amount of the past as a guide to the average probabilities of the future . This science is yet in its in- fancy , but ...
... moral faculties , and to furnish us with a cor- rect standard of judgment , by enabling us to determine the average amount of the past as a guide to the average probabilities of the future . This science is yet in its in- fancy , but ...
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... morals , education , wealth or power . " Impressed with a sense of the propriety of introducing , in this as well as in ... moral and religious aspects that we propose to discuss the question of slavery , as in its social and political ...
... morals , education , wealth or power . " Impressed with a sense of the propriety of introducing , in this as well as in ... moral and religious aspects that we propose to discuss the question of slavery , as in its social and political ...
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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
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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...