The Pro-slavery Argument: As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern StatesLippincott, Grambo, & Company, 1853 - 490 páginas |
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... live among slaveholders , and it can- not be said of him , as of others , that his mind is warped by interest , or his moral sense blunted by habit and familiarity with abuse . These circumstances , it might be supposed , would have ...
... live among slaveholders , and it can- not be said of him , as of others , that his mind is warped by interest , or his moral sense blunted by habit and familiarity with abuse . These circumstances , it might be supposed , would have ...
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... lives of its members ; it inflicts them for the security of their property , the great essential of civilization ; it inflicts them also for the protection of its political institutions , the forcible attempt to overturn which , has ...
... lives of its members ; it inflicts them for the security of their property , the great essential of civilization ; it inflicts them also for the protection of its political institutions , the forcible attempt to overturn which , has ...
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... lives are to be put in jeopardy , our pro- perty destroyed , and our political institutions overturned or endangered ? If a people had on its borders a tribe of bar- barians , whom no treaties or faith could bind , and by whose attacks ...
... lives are to be put in jeopardy , our pro- perty destroyed , and our political institutions overturned or endangered ? If a people had on its borders a tribe of bar- barians , whom no treaties or faith could bind , and by whose attacks ...
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... live to- gether , and the savage can only be tamed by being enslaved or by having slaves . By enslaving alone could he have pre- served them . * And who shall take upon himself to decide that the more benevolent course , and more ...
... live to- gether , and the savage can only be tamed by being enslaved or by having slaves . By enslaving alone could he have pre- served them . * And who shall take upon himself to decide that the more benevolent course , and more ...
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... lives of individuals be shortened , the aggregate of existence is increased ; even the various forms of death accelerated by want , familiarized to the contemplation , like death to the soldier on the field of battle , may become ...
... lives of individuals be shortened , the aggregate of existence is increased ; even the various forms of death accelerated by want , familiarized to the contemplation , like death to the soldier on the field of battle , may become ...
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Página 107 - Servants obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God...
Página 156 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession.
Página 105 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Página 256 - Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead ; Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Página 255 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Página 256 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.
Página 413 - And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you today : for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Página 158 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Página 455 - The parent storms ; the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Página 55 - It is of mangling and clear-starching, of the price of coals, or of potatoes. The questions of the child, that should be the very outpourings of curiosity in idleness, are marked with forecast and melancholy providence. It has come to be a woman before it was a child. It has learned to go to market; it chaffers, it haggles, it envies, it murmurs; it is knowing, acute, sharpened ; it never prattles.