The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick Brothers, 1857 - 420 pages |
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... truths require no argumentative demonstration . What we mean to do is simply this : to take a survey of the relative position and importance of the several states of this confederacy , from the adoption of the na- tional compact ; and ...
... truths require no argumentative demonstration . What we mean to do is simply this : to take a survey of the relative position and importance of the several states of this confederacy , from the adoption of the na- tional compact ; and ...
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... , and the second is to show slave- holders themselves - we have reference only to those who are not too perverse , or ignorant , to perceive naked truths -that free labor is far more respectable , profitable , 40 COMPARISON BETWEEN THE.
... , and the second is to show slave- holders themselves - we have reference only to those who are not too perverse , or ignorant , to perceive naked truths -that free labor is far more respectable , profitable , 40 COMPARISON BETWEEN THE.
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... truth - murdering declamations of these champions of slavery , and , in the absence of a more poli- tic method of giving vent to our disgust and indignation , have involuntarily bit our lips into blisters . The lords of the lash are not ...
... truth - murdering declamations of these champions of slavery , and , in the absence of a more poli- tic method of giving vent to our disgust and indignation , have involuntarily bit our lips into blisters . The lords of the lash are not ...
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... truth in the general reckon- ing . We can prove , and we intend to prove , from facts in our possession , that the hay crop of the free States is worth considerably more in dollars and cents than all the cotton , tobacco , rice , hay ...
... truth in the general reckon- ing . We can prove , and we intend to prove , from facts in our possession , that the hay crop of the free States is worth considerably more in dollars and cents than all the cotton , tobacco , rice , hay ...
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... truth . And yet , forsooth , the slave - driving oligarchy would whip us into the belief that agriculture is not one of the leading and lucrative pursuits of the free States , that the soil there is an uninterrupted barren waste , and ...
... truth . And yet , forsooth , the slave - driving oligarchy would whip us into the belief that agriculture is not one of the leading and lucrative pursuits of the free States , that the soil there is an uninterrupted barren waste , and ...
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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...