The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick Brothers, 1857 - 420 pages |
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... Advantages of Free over Slave Labor - The True Friends of the South - Slavery Thoughtful - Signs of Contrition - Progress of Freedom in the South - Anti- slavery Extracts from Southern Journals - A Right Feel- ing in the Right Quarter ...
... Advantages of Free over Slave Labor - The True Friends of the South - Slavery Thoughtful - Signs of Contrition - Progress of Freedom in the South - Anti- slavery Extracts from Southern Journals - A Right Feel- ing in the Right Quarter ...
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... advantages over immorality , nor to waste time in pressing a universally admitted truism - that vir- tue is preferable to vice . Self - evident truths require no argumentative demonstration . What we mean to do is simply this : to take ...
... advantages over immorality , nor to waste time in pressing a universally admitted truism - that vir- tue is preferable to vice . Self - evident truths require no argumentative demonstration . What we mean to do is simply this : to take ...
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... advantage , it was the latter . In proof of this , let us introduce a few statistics , begin- ning with the states of NEW YORK AND VIRGINIA . In 1790 , when the first census was taken , New York contained 340,120 inhabitants ; at the ...
... advantage , it was the latter . In proof of this , let us introduce a few statistics , begin- ning with the states of NEW YORK AND VIRGINIA . In 1790 , when the first census was taken , New York contained 340,120 inhabitants ; at the ...
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... advantages for commercial and manufacturing enter- prise . Boston has grown to be the second commercial city in the Union ; her ships , freighted with the useful and unique inventions and manufactures of her ingenious arti- sans and ...
... advantages for commercial and manufacturing enter- prise . Boston has grown to be the second commercial city in the Union ; her ships , freighted with the useful and unique inventions and manufactures of her ingenious arti- sans and ...
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... advantages , she enjoyed greater facilities for commercial transactions than Philadelphia . She had a right to get custom wherever she could find it , and in securing so valuable a customer as the Quaker City , she exhibited no small ...
... advantages , she enjoyed greater facilities for commercial transactions than Philadelphia . She had a right to get custom wherever she could find it , and in securing so valuable a customer as the Quaker City , she exhibited no small ...
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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 - If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; 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 noonday...
Page 196 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep for ever...
Page 412 - And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Page 250 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the...
Page 247 - It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour than advis'd respect.
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 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.