Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the SouthA. B. Burdick, 1860 - 214 strani This book condemns slavery, by appealed to whites' rational self-interest, rather than any altruism towards blacks. Helper claimed that slavery hurt the Southern economy by preventing economic development and industrialization, and that it was the main reason why the South had progressed so much less than the North since the late 18th century. |
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Stran 139 - Let the oppressed go free." " Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." " Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor." " The wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
Stran 139 - neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine ; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth." " I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers,
Stran 121 - It is the curse of kings to be attended By slaves, that take their humors for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life, And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humor than advised respect.
Stran 94 - basis—a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God ? that they are not to be violated but by his wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever;
Stran 139 - Do justice to the afflicted and needy; rid them out of the hand of the wicked." "Execute judgment and justice; take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord God." " Therefore thus saith the Lord ; ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to
Stran 139 - against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of Hosts." " As the partridge setteth on eggs, and
Stran 103 - unanimously agreed upon by the Virginia Convention of June 12, 1776, holds— " That Government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the People, Nation, or Community; " That all men are, by nature, equally free and independent;
Stran 123 - slavery, the moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; and he stands redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled by the irresistible genius of Universal Emancipation." The Dublin University Magazine for December,
Stran 123 - his foot on British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy and consecrated by the genius of Universal Emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion, incompatible with freedom, an Indian or African sun may have burnt
Stran 122 - brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurp'd, from God not given: He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation ; but man over men He made not lord ; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.