The True Story of the Barons of the South; Or, The Rationale of the American ConflictWalker, Wise, 1862 - 240 strani |
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AARON BURR Abolition Abolitionism Abolitionists adopted American American Anti-Slavery Society Anti-Slavery Society arms ARTHUR TAPPAN authority Barons became Boston BURR cause Charles Sumner Christian Church citizens civil clause committee compact Congress conspiracy Constitution crime declared DESPOTIC SYSTEM despotism Divine doctrine emancipation England evil fact favor federacy Federal Government Fort Sumter free society freedom freemen fugitive slaves GARRISON Goodell Hildreth's History honor hostile human influence instincts institution insurrection interest JOHN QUINCY ADAMS justice Kentucky labor land Legislature LEWIS TAPPAN liberty loyal Massachusetts master ment Missouri moral nation nature negro North Northern odious oligarchy organized party peace perpetuity persons political President principles protection question race rebellion rebels reform Republic republican resist sanction sentiment slav slave power slave representation slave society slave-holding social South Carolina Southern spirit Supreme Court system of slavery territory tion treason Union United violation Virginia WENDELL PHILLIPS
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Stran 25 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Stran 21 - I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both...
Stran 37 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions ; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Stran 98 - I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.
Stran 210 - And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Stran 38 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Stran 39 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world: now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Stran 37 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Stran 186 - I shun No strife nor pang beneath the sun, When human rights are staked and won. " I knelt with Ziska's hunted flock, I watched in Toussaint's cell of rock, I walked with Sidney to the block.
Stran 104 - The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captive, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.