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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... crops , while south of it the prevailing crops are tobacco , rice , cotton , and sugar ; and these two classes of crops are broadly distinguished in the me- thods of culture suitable to each . The cultivation of the one class , of which ...
... crops , while south of it the prevailing crops are tobacco , rice , cotton , and sugar ; and these two classes of crops are broadly distinguished in the me- thods of culture suitable to each . The cultivation of the one class , of which ...
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... crops this condition is not so essential . Even where labour is abundant and that labour free , the large capitalist does not in this mode of farming appear on the whole to have any preponderating advantage over the small proprietor ...
... crops this condition is not so essential . Even where labour is abundant and that labour free , the large capitalist does not in this mode of farming appear on the whole to have any preponderating advantage over the small proprietor ...
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... crops are the great staple , it from an early period declined and has ulti- mately died out . And in confirmation of this view it may be added that wherever in the Southern States the external condi- tions are especially favourable to ...
... crops are the great staple , it from an early period declined and has ulti- mately died out . And in confirmation of this view it may be added that wherever in the Southern States the external condi- tions are especially favourable to ...
Page 44
... crop be best EXHAUSTING EFFECTS OF SLAVE CULTURE . 45 suited to the. describes to him " as a novelty , a plough ' with a sort of wing , like , ' on one side , that pushed off and turned over a slice of the ground ; from which it appeared ...
... crop be best EXHAUSTING EFFECTS OF SLAVE CULTURE . 45 suited to the. describes to him " as a novelty , a plough ' with a sort of wing , like , ' on one side , that pushed off and turned over a slice of the ground ; from which it appeared ...
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... crop is culti- vated , and that crop only . Rotation of crops is thus precluded by the conditions of the case . The soil is tasked again and again to yield the same product , and the inevitable result fol- lows . After a short series of ...
... crop is culti- vated , and that crop only . Rotation of crops is thus precluded by the conditions of the case . The soil is tasked again and again to yield the same product , and the inevitable result fol- lows . After a short series of ...
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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...