A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their EconomyMason, 1856 - 723 страници |
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... half a day went to pay for game for the dinner , and the interest of the cost of the mirrors and mahogany for the public parlors , and of marble for the halls , and more of it for providing me with a private room , which should be more ...
... half a day went to pay for game for the dinner , and the interest of the cost of the mirrors and mahogany for the public parlors , and of marble for the halls , and more of it for providing me with a private room , which should be more ...
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... half - past nine o'clock . " Next day I set out accordingly , after breakfast , for the scene of operations , in which there was now a little more life . Two or three persons were lounging about , smoking cigars ; and , looking along ...
... half - past nine o'clock . " Next day I set out accordingly , after breakfast , for the scene of operations , in which there was now a little more life . Two or three persons were lounging about , smoking cigars ; and , looking along ...
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... half the land included in the large farms or plantations of this part of the country . Two hundred weight of Peruvian guano to the acre brought fifteen bushels of wheat ; and a good crop of clover was perfectly sure to follow , by which ...
... half the land included in the large farms or plantations of this part of the country . Two hundred weight of Peruvian guano to the acre brought fifteen bushels of wheat ; and a good crop of clover was perfectly sure to follow , by which ...
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... Half a bushel of recommendations he had with him , too . Well , he was not the man for me - not half the gentleman , with all his airs , that Ned here is " - ( a black servant , who was bursting with suppressed laughter , behind his ...
... Half a bushel of recommendations he had with him , too . Well , he was not the man for me - not half the gentleman , with all his airs , that Ned here is " - ( a black servant , who was bursting with suppressed laughter , behind his ...
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... half , I should think , are more or less of negro blood , and a very decent , civil people these seem , in general , to be ; more so than the laboring class of whites , among which there are many very ruffianly looking fellows . There ...
... half , I should think , are more or less of negro blood , and a very decent , civil people these seem , in general , to be ; more so than the laboring class of whites , among which there are many very ruffianly looking fellows . There ...
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Страница 269 - The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was, unhappily, introduced in their infant state. But previous to the enfranchisement of the slaves we have, it is necessary to exclude all further importations from Africa. Yet our repeated attempts to effect this, by prohibitions, and by imposing duties which might amount to a prohibition, have been hitherto defeated by his Majesty's negative...
Страница 270 - Slavery discourages arts and manufactures. The poor despise labor when performed by slaves. They prevent the emigration of whites, who really enrich and strengthen a country. They produce the most pernicious effect on manners. Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of Heaven on a country.
Страница 457 - Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works : shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
Страница 182 - Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
Страница 264 - Besides, the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest and ourselves united.
Страница 4 - You have among you many a purchased slave, Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them...
Страница 266 - Nobody wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit that Nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing only to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America.
Страница 278 - The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Страница 123 - Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things ; not answering again ; 10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity ; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Страница 270 - As to the States being in possession of the right to import, this was the case with many other rights, now to be properly given up. He held it essential in every point of view, that the General GOvernment should have power to prevent the increase of slavery.