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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... cultivation - the growing of cotton - which the complacent rea- soners whose theory we are considering choose to regard as the ordained function of the negro race.t 36 ALLEGED INDOLENCE OF THE NEGRO . .... " If. * Olmsted's Slave States ...
... cultivation - the growing of cotton - which the complacent rea- soners whose theory we are considering choose to regard as the ordained function of the negro race.t 36 ALLEGED INDOLENCE OF THE NEGRO . .... " If. * Olmsted's Slave States ...
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... cultivated for himself . " Such a country , for reasons which will presently be more fully indicated , was entirely unsuited to cultivation by slave labour ; but what I wish here to remark is , that this fact , important as it is with ...
... cultivated for himself . " Such a country , for reasons which will presently be more fully indicated , was entirely unsuited to cultivation by slave labour ; but what I wish here to remark is , that this fact , important as it is with ...
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... cultivated , tobacco becomes the sole staple , and tobacco is produced whatever be the state of the market , and whatever be the condition of the soil . This peculiarity of slave - labour , as we shall see , involves some very important ...
... cultivated , tobacco becomes the sole staple , and tobacco is produced whatever be the state of the market , and whatever be the condition of the soil . This peculiarity of slave - labour , as we shall see , involves some very important ...
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... cultivation of the one class , of which cotton may be taken as the type , requires for its efficient conduct that labour should be combined and organized 42 AGRICULTURAL CAPABILITIES OF NORTH AND SOUTI . on an. * See North America , its ...
... cultivation of the one class , of which cotton may be taken as the type , requires for its efficient conduct that labour should be combined and organized 42 AGRICULTURAL CAPABILITIES OF NORTH AND SOUTI . on an. * See North America , its ...
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... cultivation of which the labourers are dispersed over a wide surface , fail in this respect . We thus find that cotton , and the class of crops of which cotton may be taken as the type , favour the employment of slaves in the ...
... cultivation of which the labourers are dispersed over a wide surface , fail in this respect . We thus find that cotton , and the class of crops of which cotton may be taken as the type , favour the employment of slaves in the ...
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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...