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Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
d which, by the law of the land, protected the negro in life and limb, and in many personal rights, and, by the practice of the system, bestowed upon him a sum of individual indulgences, which made him altogether the most striking type in the world of cheerfulness and contentment. But it is not necessary to prolong this consideration. It may not be improper to note here a very sententious defence of the moral side of slavery occurring in a speech delivered, in 1856, by Senator Toombs of Georgia, in the Tremont Temple at Boston. It is briefly this: The white is the superior race, and the black the inferior; and subordination, with or without law, will be the status of the African in this mixed society; and, there-Core, it is the interest of both, and especially of the black race, and of the whole society, that this status should be fixed, controlled, and protected by law. The whole ground is covered by these two propositions: that subordination is the necessary condition of the
Europe (search for this): chapter 2
uresque with towns and villages to please his vision. Northern men ridiculed this apparent scantiness of the South, and took it as an evidence of inferiority. But this was the coarse judgment of the surface of things. The agricultural pursuits of the South fixed its features; and however it might decline in the scale of gross prosperity, its people were trained in the highest civilization, were models of manners for the whole country, rivalled the sentimentalism of the oldest countries of Europe, established the only schools of honour in America, and presented a striking contrast in their well-balanced character to the conceit and giddiness of the Northern people. Foreigners have made a curious and unpleasant observation of a certain exaggeration of the American mind, an absurd conceit that was never done asserting the unapproachable excellence of its country in all things. The Washington affair was the paragon of governments; the demagogical institutions of America were the bes
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 2
Gen. Sullivan complained to Washington that there was a party in New England opposed to his nomination as minister of war, because they considered he had apostatized from the true New England faith, by sometimes voting with the Southern States, he declared thus early the true desiglished themselves upon the cold and rugged and cheerless soil of New England, and the Cavaliers who sought the brighter climate of the South,tionary war Gen. Washington acquired a singular insight into the New England character. From his camp at Cambridge, in 1775, he wrote, in a private letter to Richard Henry Lee, an account of the New England part of his army, that reminds one of incidents of 1861-5. We append an e damps the spirit and ardour of volunteers from all but the four New England Governments, as none but their people have the least chance of gher, all offices will be confined to the inhabitants of the four New England Governments, which, in my opinion, is impolitic to a degree. I
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
uestion developed. This explains, indeed, what is most curious in the political history of slavery-namely that the early part of that history is scarcely more than an enumeration of dates and measures, which were taken as matters of course, and passed without dispute. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 was passed without a division in the Senate, and by a vote of forty-eight to seven in the House. Louisiana and Florida, slave-holding territories, were organized without agitation. Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama were admitted into the Union without any question as to their domestic institutions. The action of Congress, with respect to the north-west territory, was based upon a pre-existing anti-slavery ordinance, and had no significance. There was nothing or but little in the early days of the Union, to betoken the wild and violent controversy on slavery, that was to sweep the country like a storm and strew it with scenes of horrour. With the jealousy of Southern domi
Calhoun, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
how slavery established a peculiar civilizations the South. its bad and good effects summed up. coarseness of Northern civilization. no landed gentry in the North. scanty appearance of the Southern country. the sentiments and manners of its people. American exaggeration, a peculiarity of the Northern mind. sobriety of the South. how these qualities were displayed in the Northern and Southern estimations of the Union. State Rights the foundation of the moral dignity of the Union. Calhoun's picture of the Union. a noble vision never realized Although the American Union, as involving the Federal principle, contained in itself an element ultimately fatal to its form of government, it is not to be denied that by careful and attentive statesmanship a rupture might have been long postponed. We have already briefly seen that, at a most remarkable period in American history, it was proposed by the great political scholar of his times-John C. Calhoun — to modify the Federal pri
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
was naturally bound up in the Sectional Animosity. As that animosity progressed, the slavery question developed. This explains, indeed, what is most curious in the political history of slavery-namely that the early part of that history is scarcely more than an enumeration of dates and measures, which were taken as matters of course, and passed without dispute. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 was passed without a division in the Senate, and by a vote of forty-eight to seven in the House. Louisiana and Florida, slave-holding territories, were organized without agitation. Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama were admitted into the Union without any question as to their domestic institutions. The action of Congress, with respect to the north-west territory, was based upon a pre-existing anti-slavery ordinance, and had no significance. There was nothing or but little in the early days of the Union, to betoken the wild and violent controversy on slavery, that was to sweep the
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
xplains, indeed, what is most curious in the political history of slavery-namely that the early part of that history is scarcely more than an enumeration of dates and measures, which were taken as matters of course, and passed without dispute. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 was passed without a division in the Senate, and by a vote of forty-eight to seven in the House. Louisiana and Florida, slave-holding territories, were organized without agitation. Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama were admitted into the Union without any question as to their domestic institutions. The action of Congress, with respect to the north-west territory, was based upon a pre-existing anti-slavery ordinance, and had no significance. There was nothing or but little in the early days of the Union, to betoken the wild and violent controversy on slavery, that was to sweep the country like a storm and strew it with scenes of horrour. With the jealousy of Southern domination came the slavery ag
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
shington. the slavery question, an incident of the sectional animosity. not an independent controversy, or a moral dispute. political history of negro slavery in the South. how it become the subject of dispute. the Hartford Convention. the Missouri line, the preliminary trace of disunion. declaration of Thomas Jefferson. why the North defamed the peculiar institution of the South. great benefits of this institution, and its contributions to the world. slavery, not the proper term for tion conformed to the number of free persons in the Union. A few years later, the country was more distinctly arrayed into two sectional parties, struggling for supremacy with regard to the slavery question. The legislation on the admission of Missouri in 1820, by which the institution of slavery was bounded by a line of latitude, indicated the true nature of the slavery controversy, and simply revealed what had all along existed: a political North and a political South. It was here that we f
Bunker Hill (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ny long recess must always sit? In this case, every gentleman will stand an equal chance of being promoted, according to his merit: in the other, all offices will be confined to the inhabitants of the four New England Governments, which, in my opinion, is impolitic to a degree. I have made a pretty good slam among such kind of officers as the Massachusetts Government abounds in since I came to this camp, having broken one colonel and two captains for cowardly behaviour in the action on Bunker's Hill, two captains for drawing more provisions and pay than they had men in their company, and one for being absent from his post when the enemy appeared there and burnt a house just by it. Besides these, I have at this time one colonel, one major, one captain, and two subalterns under arrest for trial. In short, I spare none, and yet fear it will not all do, as these people seem to be too inattentive to everything but their interest! On the other hand, the colonists of Virginia and the Caro
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 2
rsuit of political power. No one can read aright the history of America, unless in the light of a North and a South: two political aliens id, concurred in forming the great division of interests in the United States; and if any defensive power were necessary it ought to be mutuat we find the initial point of that war of sections which raged in America for forty years, and at last culminated in an appeal to arms. Theest countries of Europe, established the only schools of honour in America, and presented a striking contrast in their well-balanced characteir was the paragon of governments; the demagogical institutions of America were the best under the sun; the slip-shod literature of the countrth. It was Daniel Webster who wrote, in a diplomatic paper, that America was the only great republican power. It was Yankee orators who es State Rights was generally rejected for the prevalent notion that America was a single democracy. To the people of the North the Union was
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