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 |
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accumulated acre aggregate agricultural Alabama American amount annum bales banks become bills black race capital census cent cities colonies Connecticut Constitution consumers cotton crop Delaware demand duty East emancipation employed employment England Europe exports fact farm Federal Florida follows foreign free blacks free labor freights furnish Georgia give Hampshire hand head immigration imported increase India industry interest Jamaica Kentucky lands less Lord Brougham Louisiana manufactures Maryland Massachusetts matter ment migration millions Mississippi Missouri nearly negro North Northern Ohio operation Orleans paid party pauper persons planters port pounds produce profits progress proportion quantity railroads raw material returns Rhode Island sent ship-building slave-labor slave-trade slavery slaves soil sold South Carolina Southern sugar supply surplus Tennessee territory tion tobacco tonnage tons Total Union United valuation vessels Virginia wealth West Indies Western white population whole York
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Stran 154 - ... till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, pre-supposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government. 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,...
Stran 155 - 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...
Stran 20 - Individuals who were depressed with poverty and sunk in idleness, have suddenly risen to wealth and respectability. Our debts have been paid off; our capitals have increased, and our lands trebled themselves in value. We cannot express the weight of the obligation which the country owes to this invention. The extent of it cannot now be seen.
Stran 154 - 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. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Stran 139 - The migration or importation of such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808; but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding $10 for each person.
Stran 155 - 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 150 - ... the slave may appear to be degraded from the human rank, and classed with those irrational animals which fall under the legal denomination of property. In being protected, on the other hand, in his life and in his limbs, against the violence of all others, even the master of his labor and his liberty, and in being punishable himself for all violence committed against others — the slave is no less evidently regarded by the law as a member of the society, not as a part of the irrational creation...
Stran 166 - 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 37 - The Bishop of Oxford had heard with satisfaction what had fallen from the noble duke. It was quite true that it was not the custom of the British government to 'engage in direct speculations to promote the trade in any article, but with regard to the growth of cotton, the British government had rendered great assistance in another...
Stran 16 - We wish they would fo out and view the negro in all the blazonry of his idleness, is pride, his ingratitude, contemptuously sneering at the industry of that race which made him free, and then come home and teach the memorable lesson of their experience to the fanatics who have perverted him into what he is.