| Cecil Clare North - 1926 - 368 páginas
...are your masters." The following passage from a speech of the period in Congress is typical of many: In all social systems there must be a class to do the mean duties, to perform the drudgery of life, that is, a class requiring but a low order of intelligence... | |
| James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 940 páginas
...the title of " Mudsill Hammond." The following is the paragraph to which most exception was taken: "In all social systems there must be a class to do the mean duties, to perform the drudgery of life ; that is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business - 1978 - 1172 páginas
...GEORGIA PLAN 1732-1752, at chs. 8, 9 (1972). 24-Z17 O - 78 - 60 478 SOUTH DAKOTA LAW REVIEW [VoL 20 In all social systems there must be a class to do the mean duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect... | |
| James M. McPherson - 1988 - 952 páginas
...$65,000,000, and saved you." Slavery demonstrated the superiority of southern civilization, continued Hammond. "In all social systems there must be a class to do...the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. ... It constitutes the very mudsill of society. . . . Such a class you must have, or you would not... | |
| James M. McPherson - 2003 - 947 páginas
...$65,000,000, and saved you." Slavery demonstrated the superiority of southern civilization, continued Hammond. "In all social systems there must be a class to do...the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. ... It constitutes the very mudsill of society. . . . Such a class you must have, or you would not... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 páginas
..."lousy." I think "swell" is lousy, but "lousy" is swell. JB Priestley (1894-1984) British writer Slavery In all social systems there must be a class to do the mean duties ... It constitutes the very mudsills of society . . . Fortunately for the South, she found... | |
| Marshall L. DeRosa - 1991 - 200 páginas
...sess., January 3, 1860, p. 97) stated on the floor of the Senate the hard-line proslavery position. In all social systems there must be a class to do the mean duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intelligence... | |
| Paul Finkelman - 2012 - 372 páginas
...spoke on March 4, however, he created a sensation with his ringing philosophical defense of slavery. "In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgeries of life," he argued, "a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill."... | |
| Dinesh D'Souza - 1996 - 764 páginas
...identical remark comes from the senator from South Carolina, James Hammond, who told the US Senate, "In all social systems, there must be a class to do...the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. This is a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. . . . Fortunately for... | |
| James M. McPherson - 1996 - 273 páginas
...laborers and 'operatives,' as you call them, are essentially slaves," Hammond told Northern senators. In all social systems there must be a class to do...the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. ... It constitutes the very mud-sill of society. . . . Fortunately for the South, she found a race... | |
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