Six Months in the Federal States, Količine 1–2

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Macmillan, 1863
 

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Stran 122 - It is obviously impracticable, in the Federal Government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
Stran 213 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same govem1nent. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Stran 213 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Stran 122 - Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as -well on situation and circumstances as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved...
Stran 213 - But it was found that the public mind would not yet bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Stran 190 - Resolved, That the United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt a gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.
Stran 148 - State thus disadvantageously circumstanced of its most useful inhabitants ; its wealth, and its consequence in the scale of the confederated States would sink of course.

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