The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick brothers, 1857 - 420 pages |
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... interests and the interests of those around us , in giving aid and succor to every department of Northern power ; in the decline of life we remedy our eye - sight with Nor- thren spectacles , and support our infirmities with Northern ...
... interests and the interests of those around us , in giving aid and succor to every department of Northern power ; in the decline of life we remedy our eye - sight with Nor- thren spectacles , and support our infirmities with Northern ...
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... interest of his country at heart , is to declare himself an unqualified and uncompromising abo- litionist . No conditional or half - way declaration will avail ; no mere threatening demonstration will succeed . With those who desire to ...
... interest of his country at heart , is to declare himself an unqualified and uncompromising abo- litionist . No conditional or half - way declaration will avail ; no mere threatening demonstration will succeed . With those who desire to ...
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... interests of the free States is very nearly twice as great as the entire value of all the agricul- tural interests of the slave States - the value of those in- terests in the former being twenty - five hundred million of dollars , that ...
... interests of the free States is very nearly twice as great as the entire value of all the agricul- tural interests of the slave States - the value of those in- terests in the former being twenty - five hundred million of dollars , that ...
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... interest will call forth what powers of intellect and of invention he has to aid him in his work , and employ his physical strength to the greatest possible advantage . Free labor receives an immediate reward , which cheers and ...
... interest will call forth what powers of intellect and of invention he has to aid him in his work , and employ his physical strength to the greatest possible advantage . Free labor receives an immediate reward , which cheers and ...
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... interest is felt in the chief treasures of the State , the immortal minds of the multitude who are not born to wealth . The signs of premature old age are visibly impressed upon everything that meets the eye . The fields present a dread ...
... interest is felt in the chief treasures of the State , the immortal minds of the multitude who are not born to wealth . The signs of premature old age are visibly impressed upon everything that meets the eye . The fields present a dread ...
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Page 180 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 132 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 427 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray- — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 249 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 398 - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places : thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations ; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Page 398 - If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday...
Page 132 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 426 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.
Page 297 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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 180 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become...