Despotism in America; or, An inquiry into the nature and results of the slave-holding system in the United States. (R. Hildreth). |
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... Southern States of the Union , though certain demo- cratic principles are to be found in their constitutions and their laws , are in no modern sense of the word entitled to the appellation of Democracies : They are Aristocracies ; and ...
... Southern States of the Union , though certain demo- cratic principles are to be found in their constitutions and their laws , are in no modern sense of the word entitled to the appellation of Democracies : They are Aristocracies ; and ...
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... southern friends , in civil com- motions , infuriated hostilities , and savage war . So it may be . The event is in their power . Let them be wise in time . The balance of justice is stretched across the sky , —and is it not their scale ...
... southern friends , in civil com- motions , infuriated hostilities , and savage war . So it may be . The event is in their power . Let them be wise in time . The balance of justice is stretched across the sky , —and is it not their scale ...
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... southern slave - holders . Who could have anticipated that the apostle of American democracy should himself have been an aristocrat and a despot ! Yet so it was . Jeffer- son is revered , and justly , as the earliest , ablest , boldest ...
... southern slave - holders . Who could have anticipated that the apostle of American democracy should himself have been an aristocrat and a despot ! Yet so it was . Jeffer- son is revered , and justly , as the earliest , ablest , boldest ...
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... southern aristocracies , the aristocracy , so to speak , of the privileged order , though they were richer and better educated than their neighbors of the common sort , had no such moral hold upon men's minds as the hierarchy of the ...
... southern aristocracies , the aristocracy , so to speak , of the privileged order , though they were richer and better educated than their neighbors of the common sort , had no such moral hold upon men's minds as the hierarchy of the ...
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... southern politics . But the Jeffersonian party , while it aimed at overturning the oligarchies of the southern states , aimed also at supre- macy in the federal government ; and the same victory which assured their ascendency at home ...
... southern politics . But the Jeffersonian party , while it aimed at overturning the oligarchies of the southern states , aimed also at supre- macy in the federal government ; and the same victory which assured their ascendency at home ...
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Page 159 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
Page 168 - Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Page 16 - 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.
Page 3 - ... patriotism which the gentleman had resolved, out of his abundant generosity, gratuitously to bestow upon us? Mr. President, the impression which has gone abroad of the weakness of the South as connected with the slave question exposes us to such constant attacks, has done us so much injury, and is calculated to produce such infinite mischiefs...
Page 159 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
Page 3 - ... national character — on the prosperity and greatness, either of the United States or of particular states. Sir, when arraigned before the bar of public opinion, on this charge of slavery, we can stand up with conscious rectitude, plead not guilty, and put ourselves upon God and our country.
Page 9 - On the other side, Satan, alarmed, Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriff or Atlas, unremoved : His stature reached the sky, and on his crest Sat Horror plumed ; nor wanted in his grasp What seemed both spear and shield.
Page 62 - There are some people whose sympathies have been excited upon the subject of slavery, who if they can only be satisfied that the slaves have enough to eat, think it is all very well, and that nothing more is to be said, or done. If slaves were merely animals, whose only or chief enjoyment consisted in the gratification of their bodily appetites, there would be some show of sense in this conclusion. But in...
Page 62 - ... that the slaves have enough to eat, think it is all very well, and that nothing more is to be said or done. If slaves were merely animals, whose only or chief enjoyment consisted in the gratification of their bodily appetites, there would be some show of sense in this conclusion. But, in fact, however crushed and brutified, they are still men ; men whose bosoms beat with the same passions as our own ; whose hearts swell with the same aspirations, — the same ardent desire to improve their condition...
Page 37 - Consider too that this infliction is not limited to a single neighborhood, as in the case of an invading army, but is scattered and diffused over the whole extent of the country ; nor is it temporary as in the other case, but constant and perpetual.