A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy, Volumen1Dix & Edwards, 1856 - 723 páginas Examines the economy and it's impact of slavery on the coast land slave states pre-Civil War. |
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Página 258 - ... conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will remain on us long, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights...
Página 258 - It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing every essential right, on a legal basis, is while our rulers are honest, ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill, It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded.
Página 262 - Bland, one of the oldest, ablest, and most respected members, and he undertook to move for certain moderate extensions of the protection of the laws to these people. I seconded his motion, and, as a younger member, was more spared in the debate; but he was denounced as an enemy to his country,, and was treated with the greatest indecorum.
Página 264 - As to the States being in possession of the right to import, this was the case with many other rights, now to be properly given up. He held it essential in every point of view, that the General GOvernment should have power to prevent the increase of slavery.
Página 264 - The evil of having slaves was experienced during the last war. Had slaves been treated as they might have been by the enemy, they would have proved dangerous instruments in their hands. But their folly dealt by the slaves as it did by the tories. . . . Slavery discourages arts and manufactures. The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.