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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 2 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 2: preliminary rebellious movements. (search)
ing the luxuries of the world to their dwellings. They were promised the long-desired reopening of the African Slave-trade, which would make slaves so cheap that every man might become an owner of many, and take his position in the social scale, with the great proprietors of lands and sinews. There is ample evidence on record to show that Yancey, Davis, Stephens, and other leaders in the great rebellion were advocates of the foreign Slave-trade. Southern newspapers advocated it. The True Southron, of Mississippi, suggested the propriety of stimulating the zeal of the pulpit by founding a prize for the best sermon in favor of free trade in negroes. For the purpose of practically opening the horrible traffic, an African labor-supply Association was formed, of which De Bow, editor of the principal organ of the oligarchy, was made president. Southern legislatures discussed the question. John Slidell, in the United States Senate, urged the propriety of withdrawing American cruisers
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slavery. (search)
l humbled, they said, as men, conscious that we are born freemen but in name, and that we are living, during the existence of such laws, under a tyranny as supreme as that of the despotic governments of the Old World. Heretofore the people of the South, firm in their consciousness of right and strength, have failed to place the stamp of condemnation upon such laws as reflect upon the institution of slavery, but have permitted, unrebuked, the influence of foreign opinion to prevail. The True Southron, published in Mississippi, suggested the propriety of stimulating the zeal of the pulpit by founding a prize for the best sermon on free-trade in negroes. This proposition was approved, and pulpits exhibited zeal in the cause. James H. Thornwell, D. D., president of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Columbus, S. C., asserted his conviction that the African slave-trade formed the most worthy of all missionary societies. Southern legislatures and conventions openly discussed the
The Daily Dispatch: September 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], One hundred Dollars reward. (search)
hey insure at all, in their own societies, and not in them, unless they know all about them from Alpha to Omega. We presume that, as soon as the independence of the South is achieved, there will be an invasion of the South, compared with which the "Grand Army" is mere moon shine. There is not a branch of business, genuine or counterfeit, that will not be established here by Northern agents, under high-sounding Southern names. "Dixie Land" corporations conducted by Cape Cod operators; "True Southron" mercantile and manufacturing establishments filled up with representatives of Boston, Lowell and Lynn; "Old Dominion" academies and seminaries under the superintendence of some Praise God Bare bones; "Jeff. Davis" or " Beauregard" Life Insurance Societies, which will be owned and conducted by some of the Yankee ex-colonels or high privates who are now trying to put us all to death. While Jonathan appears in the character of an open enemy we have nothing to fear. In the way of swindlin