The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American ContestCarleton, Publisher, 1862 - 171 pages |
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Page viii
... Kansas - Nebraska Bill . In the concluding pages the author ventures to foretell how the drama will end . As prophecy nowadays is not an irreversible fiat , but simply an impressive form of admonition , those who do not like its ...
... Kansas - Nebraska Bill . In the concluding pages the author ventures to foretell how the drama will end . As prophecy nowadays is not an irreversible fiat , but simply an impressive form of admonition , those who do not like its ...
Page xiv
... Kansas . - Obstacle presented by the Missouri Compromise . -The Kansas and Nebraska bill : squatter sovereignty . - Kansas thrown open for settlement . - Preparations of the Slave Power . - Invasion of the territory . - The Leavenworth ...
... Kansas . - Obstacle presented by the Missouri Compromise . -The Kansas and Nebraska bill : squatter sovereignty . - Kansas thrown open for settlement . - Preparations of the Slave Power . - Invasion of the territory . - The Leavenworth ...
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... Kansas , through the repudiation of " Squatter Sove- reignty " when that principle had been found unequal to its purposes , and lastly , through the Dred - Scott decision and the demand for protection of slavery in the Territories ...
... Kansas , through the repudiation of " Squatter Sove- reignty " when that principle had been found unequal to its purposes , and lastly , through the Dred - Scott decision and the demand for protection of slavery in the Territories ...
Page 90
... Kansas declares that he " loves " the institution , and that he votes for it because he " loves " it . Nor are these sentiments confined to the slaveholding minority . The all - important circumstance is that they are shared equally by ...
... Kansas declares that he " loves " the institution , and that he votes for it because he " loves " it . Nor are these sentiments confined to the slaveholding minority . The all - important circumstance is that they are shared equally by ...
Page 95
... Kansas and the free West , shall first reach New Mexico and the Gulf of California . " But it is less in the economic , than in the moral and social , attributes of slave societies that we must look for the motive principle of their ...
... Kansas and the free West , shall first reach New Mexico and the Gulf of California . " But it is less in the economic , than in the moral and social , attributes of slave societies that we must look for the motive principle of their ...
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Page ix - ... and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 95 - 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.
Page x - An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Page 90 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
Page x - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any...
Page ix - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Page 131 - Thus he lived, and thus he died like a saint, unspotted of the world, full of alms-deeds, full of humility, and all the examples of a virtuous life ; which I cannot conclude better, than with this borrowed observation : - All must to their cold graves ; But the religious actions of the just Smell sweet in death, and blossom in the dust.
Page x - ... approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : — SECTION 9. And be it further enacted, That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the Government of the United States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons, and taking refuge within the lines of the army, and all slaves captured from such persons, or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the government of the United States,...
Page x - And I do hereby enjoin upon and order all persons engaged in the military and naval service of the United States to observe, obey, and enforce, within their respective spheres of service, the act and sections above recited. And the Executive will in due time recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained...
Page ix - That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all...