Southern Wealth and Northern Profits, as Exhibited in Statistical Facts and Official Figures: Showing the Necessity of Union to the Future Prosperity and Welfare of the RepublicG.W. & J.A. Wood, 1860 - 173 strani "Ostensibly an argument that the economies of the North and South were dependent on each other, Southern wealth and Northern profits was met with much criticism from the North as it was essentially a defense of slavery, a dismissal of the humanity of blacks, and a complaint against the abolitionist makeup of the legislature." -- Rulon Miller Books |
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Stran 152 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government ; but the constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Stran 164 - It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
Stran 18 - The whole of the interior," said Judge Johnson, " was languishing, and its inhabitants were emigrating, for want of some object to engage their attention and employ their industry, when the invention of this machine at once opened views to them which set the whole country in active motion: From childhood to age, it has presented to us a lucrative employment. Individuals who were depressed with poverty and sunk in idleness, have suddenly risen to wealth and respectability. Our debts have been paid...
Stran 153 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men, will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government destroying, afterwards, the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Stran 148 - The Federal Constitution, therefore, decides with great propriety on the case of our slaves, when it views them in the mixed character of persons and property. This is in fact their true character. It is the character bestowed on them by the laws under which they live, and it will not be denied, that these are the proper criterion...
Stran 137 - Provided, that no amendment which may be made prior to the year 1808, shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the senate.
Stran 112 - He sends his black urchin up for a bread-fruit, and, behold," ' says Mr. Trollope, "the family table is spread. He pierces a ' " cocoa-nut, and lo ! there is his beverage. He lies on the ' " ground, surrounded by oranges, bananas, and pine-apples. " Why should he work?" Let Sambo himself reply: "No, massa, me weak in me belly ; me no workee to-day ; me no like workee just 'em little moment.
Stran 153 - ... this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction; to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community, and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans,...
Stran 152 - All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency.
Stran 113 - ... and other such articles : and these they are always willing to exchange for stolen rum and sugar, which they secretly tempt the negroes to pilfer from their proprietors ; but few of them ever make the exertion of earning their livelihood creditably.