The South Vindicated: Being a Series of Letters Written by the American Press During the Canvass for the Presidency in 1860, with a Letter to Lord Brougham on the John Brown Raid and a Survey of the Result of the Presidential Contest, and Its ConsequencesLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1862 - 444 Seiten |
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... hope that the Europeans will ever mix with the negroes appear to me to delude themselves . Hitherto , whenever the whites have been the most powerful , they have maintained the blacks in a subordinate or servile position ; wherever the ...
... hope that the Europeans will ever mix with the negroes appear to me to delude themselves . Hitherto , whenever the whites have been the most powerful , they have maintained the blacks in a subordinate or servile position ; wherever the ...
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... hope to escape through disaster and a sea of blood ? Here the defender of American slavery might pause in the presence of that necessity which allowed no discretion or choice in regard to the continuance of slavery , and submit the ...
... hope to escape through disaster and a sea of blood ? Here the defender of American slavery might pause in the presence of that necessity which allowed no discretion or choice in regard to the continuance of slavery , and submit the ...
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... hope of accomplishing its own special purpose . To know who are the parties to a controversy often materially assists in directing the mind to correct con- clusions in regard to the merits of the controversy itself . If a known ...
... hope of accomplishing its own special purpose . To know who are the parties to a controversy often materially assists in directing the mind to correct con- clusions in regard to the merits of the controversy itself . If a known ...
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... hope or ex- pectation . Self - preservation is the strongest instinct of man's nature ; and when the moment above in- dicated shall have arrived , if ever , it may fairly be assumed that the South will stand forth as a unit in defence ...
... hope or ex- pectation . Self - preservation is the strongest instinct of man's nature ; and when the moment above in- dicated shall have arrived , if ever , it may fairly be assumed that the South will stand forth as a unit in defence ...
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... hope to accomplish when their victory shall have been achieved ; and that there exists amongst them but a single element or class which may be fairly presumed to be actuated exclusively by conscientious and philanthropic con- victions ...
... hope to accomplish when their victory shall have been achieved ; and that there exists amongst them but a single element or class which may be fairly presumed to be actuated exclusively by conscientious and philanthropic con- victions ...
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Seite 222 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over...
Seite 341 - ... and welfare of the United States or any of them, nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the United States, nor appropriate money, nor agree upon the number of vessels of war to be built or purchased, or the number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a commander in chief of the army or navy, unless nine states assent to the same...
Seite 361 - ... that to this compact each state acceded, as a state, and is an integral party; its co-states forming as to itself the other party : that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself...
Seite 341 - And the articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of Ihe United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of every State.
Seite 340 - Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in congress assembled.
Seite 69 - The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year 1808, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
Seite 374 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Seite 222 - And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit These things teach and exhort.
Seite 329 - Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.
Seite 115 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths, such were our Gothic ancestors, such in our days were the Poles, and such will be all masters of slaves who are not slaves themselves. In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.