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 - 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.