Six Months in the Federal States, Volumer 1-2Macmillan, 1863 |
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... Nature for America ; and that there is an irresistible tendency in each succeeding gene- ration of Americans to approximate more and more to the natural Red Indian type . I give no opinion as to the value of the theory ; but it is ...
... Nature for America ; and that there is an irresistible tendency in each succeeding gene- ration of Americans to approximate more and more to the natural Red Indian type . I give no opinion as to the value of the theory ; but it is ...
Side 34
... nature , so the editor of the Herald may possess some redeeming qualities ; but , as yet , the New York world has not discovered them . The result of Mr. Bennett's social disrepute , whether deserved or not , is that 34 THE AMERICAN PRESS .
... nature , so the editor of the Herald may possess some redeeming qualities ; but , as yet , the New York world has not discovered them . The result of Mr. Bennett's social disrepute , whether deserved or not , is that 34 THE AMERICAN PRESS .
Side 47
... nature of one local paper to attack another , but in all the American papers I have met with , I have never seen personal attacks from one editor to another , equal either in virulence or bad taste to what I have seen in English country ...
... nature of one local paper to attack another , but in all the American papers I have met with , I have never seen personal attacks from one editor to another , equal either in virulence or bad taste to what I have seen in English country ...
Side 76
... natural causes or from adverse legislation , the North - western States afford no home for the free negro . Somehow or other , the climate , or the social conditions of the free North , are not favourable to the increase of the coloured ...
... natural causes or from adverse legislation , the North - western States afford no home for the free negro . Somehow or other , the climate , or the social conditions of the free North , are not favourable to the increase of the coloured ...
Side 77
... natural causes . Poverty , hardship , and disease , have checked successfully the natural fertility of the race . Mr. Seward , in talking over this subject , told me that when he was a child in his father's house , there were as many ...
... natural causes . Poverty , hardship , and disease , have checked successfully the natural fertility of the race . Mr. Seward , in talking over this subject , told me that when he was a child in his father's house , there were as many ...
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Side 122 - It is obviously impracticable, in the Federal Government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
Side 213 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same govem1nent. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Side 213 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Side 122 - Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as -well on situation and circumstances as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved...
Side 213 - But it was found that the public mind would not yet bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Side 190 - Resolved, That the United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt a gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.
Side 148 - State thus disadvantageously circumstanced of its most useful inhabitants ; its wealth, and its consequence in the scale of the confederated States would sink of course.