The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick brothers, 1857 - 420 pages |
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... Existence - Paucity of Southern Authors - Proportion of White Adults , over Twenty Years of Age , in each State , who cannot Read and Write , to the Whole White Population - Southern Authors Compelled to Seek Northern Publishers ...
... Existence - Paucity of Southern Authors - Proportion of White Adults , over Twenty Years of Age , in each State , who cannot Read and Write , to the Whole White Population - Southern Authors Compelled to Seek Northern Publishers ...
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... existence before it . Time , the righter of every wrong , is ripening events for the desired consummation of our labors and the fulfillment of our cherished hopes . Each revolving year brings nearer the inevitable crisis . The sooner it ...
... existence before it . Time , the righter of every wrong , is ripening events for the desired consummation of our labors and the fulfillment of our cherished hopes . Each revolving year brings nearer the inevitable crisis . The sooner it ...
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... existence of slavery ; but we do not mean to let them alone ; they must not have all the honor of annihilating the monstrous iniquity . We want to become an auxiliary in the good work , and facilitate it . The liberation of five ...
... existence of slavery ; but we do not mean to let them alone ; they must not have all the honor of annihilating the monstrous iniquity . We want to become an auxiliary in the good work , and facilitate it . The liberation of five ...
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... existence of almost everything , in the heaven above , in the earth beneath , and in the water under the earth , depended on it . The truth is , however , that the cotton crop is of but little value to the South . New England and Old ...
... existence of almost everything , in the heaven above , in the earth beneath , and in the water under the earth , depended on it . The truth is , however , that the cotton crop is of but little value to the South . New England and Old ...
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... is the ill - omened motto under which , in all its feeble efforts and achievements , it ekes out a most miserable and deleterious existence . TABLE NO . IX . AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF THE FREE FREE AND THE SLAVE STATES . 61.
... is the ill - omened motto under which , in all its feeble efforts and achievements , it ekes out a most miserable and deleterious existence . TABLE NO . IX . AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF THE FREE FREE AND THE SLAVE STATES . 61.
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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...