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 vii
... increased prestige , or be now once for all effectually broken . " manner . Similar views and arguments relating to this all - absorbing topic may no doubt be found scattered through the current litera- ture of the day , expressed with ...
... increased prestige , or be now once for all effectually broken . " manner . Similar views and arguments relating to this all - absorbing topic may no doubt be found scattered through the current litera- ture of the day , expressed with ...
Page xii
... increased prestige , or be now once for all effectu- ally broken . This is the one view of the case which every fresh occur- rence in the progress of events tends to strengthen ; and it is this which it is the object of the present work ...
... increased prestige , or be now once for all effectu- ally broken . This is the one view of the case which every fresh occur- rence in the progress of events tends to strengthen ; and it is this which it is the object of the present work ...
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... increase or to diminish the future influence for good of this country . It would indeed be a grievous misfortune if , in one of the great turning points of human history , Great Britain were found to act a part unworthy of the position ...
... increase or to diminish the future influence for good of this country . It would indeed be a grievous misfortune if , in one of the great turning points of human history , Great Britain were found to act a part unworthy of the position ...
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... increased ; much less does it afford any explana- THEORY OF CLIMATE AND RACE . 35 tion of its. * See Stirling's Letters from the Slave States , p . 64 , where greater importance is attributed to this circumstance than it appears to me to ...
... increased ; much less does it afford any explana- THEORY OF CLIMATE AND RACE . 35 tion of its. * See Stirling's Letters from the Slave States , p . 64 , where greater importance is attributed to this circumstance than it appears to me to ...
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... increasing in numbers under a semi - tropical climate , and rising to opulence through the labour of their own hands . In Texas a flourishing colony of free Germans , among whom no slave is to be found , engage in all the occupations of ...
... increasing in numbers under a semi - tropical climate , and rising to opulence through the labour of their own hands . In Texas a flourishing colony of free Germans , among whom no slave is to be found , engage in all the occupations 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...