History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, Volumen2J. R. Osgood, 1875 |
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History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, Volumen2 Henry Wilson Vista completa - 1879 |
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History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, Volumen2 Henry Wilson Vista completa - 1874 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abolitionists action admission adopted afterward amendment American antislavery appeals avowed bill Boston Calhoun candidate Carolina citizens claims colored committee compromise measures Congress Constitution convention convictions Court debate declared defeat delegates Democratic party disunion Douglas earnest election eloquent emancipation enacted excited expressed extension of slavery Faneuil Hall favor Free Soil party friends of freedom Fugitive Slave Act Giddings Governor Hale held House human indorsement issue Jefferson Davis John Kansas legislation legislature liberty majority Massachusetts meeting ment Mexico Missouri compromise motion nation negroes never nomination North Northern numbers Ohio opinion opposed Oregon organization patriotism platform political position President Preston King principles proposed proslavery purpose question reply Republican resolutions revealed secure Senate sentiments Seward Slave Power slaveholding slavery South South Carolina Southern speech spirit spoke Sumner territory Texas tion Union United United States Senate utterances Virginia vote Webster Whig party Wilmot proviso Wilson York
Pasajes populares
Página 526 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and SO far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Página 246 - While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, — for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise!
Página 71 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Página 571 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect 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...
Página 570 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Página 204 - I shall be fully convinced of what I more than suspect already — that he is deeply conscious of being in the wrong ; that he feels the blood of this war, like the blood of Abel, is crying to Heaven against him...
Página 165 - can nothing be done for freedom because the public conscience is inert?' Yes, much can be done — everything can be done. Slavery can be limited to its present bounds, it can be ameliorated, it can be and must be abolished, and you and I can and must do it.
Página 574 - It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Página 528 - Upon these considerations, it is the opinion of the Court that the act of Congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind in the territory of the United States north of the line therein mentioned, is not warranted by the Constitution, and is therefore void...
Página 468 - I advise you, one and all, to enter every election district in Kansas, in defiance of Reeder and his vile myrmidons, and vote at the point of the bowie-knife and revolver. Neither give nor take quarter, as our cause demands it. It is enough that the slaveholding interest wills it, from which there is no appeal.
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