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AND OF THE GREAT POWER THAT HO!LDS THEM....
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There Is No Doubt That In The Gig-Antic ...
fear of England made the leaders consent to union , which was almost The Northern necessary to States their had existence cast off as sl a avery nation and . it is probable the
leaders thought slavery in the South would , be more easily got rid of at future time than at that moment ; butin my very humble
_duction opinion a , of Washington the culture committed of sugar and here cotton a great suddenl , fault y . increased The intro the - and
¦ ' territory extension , and of slavery almost . the The whole Slave of States the politic demanded s of America more power became slavery slavery or politics the extension . Political of parties slavery became and almost _parties the for whole or against mental
activity The great of the quarrels people has have been been turned about , to the the territory question or of new the negro lands . , to form into Slave
whichof coursethe South has always desired States , and too often , successfully , as in the case of Missouri and States
Texas . The nature of slavery makes the Slave by necessity increase makes a aggressive necessity their of . Slave to Slave slave passion States labour comm for naturall unities exhausts power y ; is the naturall soug the position ht soil y for and dominant , to too g makes , ive of power slave . fresh And -owners in land the the
central When government Missouri was . received into the States as a Slave State , a should not be
compromise carried north was of made the parallel for the Fre of e 36 States ° 30 , ' that of north slavery latitude . This Southern States went
triump was In a triump hin ite g of over h the to the the Missouri North South , , until compromise and the so the election , they of tried Lincoln hard in to 1860 seize . on
Kansas sp which was north of the boundary then agreed on , and in every on way increasin , showed the their Slave ill States faith . and After their disgraceful one determined scenes of aim war to ,
Kansas go decided g herself , in spite of Southern ruffians , on being a Free State . the
After the affair of Kansas , the North began to wake up to more designs ( generall of the y accepted South , . and The anti atrocities -slavery of princi the South ples had became absolutel much y
the new formed frightened Southern territory ; their the . President policy North In 1856 was . elected It this to was prevent part then s y till , the thoug that showed extension the h defeated Republican by its of , power slaves and party Buchanan th into at was any the
slave dominion was no longer submitted , to in the North without a ¦ of strugg protest their le . , defe The and at leaders they in Kansas girded of the was themselves South the felt want that for of the this power ii was ght of a . si colonization The gn of real a coming cause .
A slave population cannot compete with a free people in colonizationThe South had taken the ground with her hordes of hired
. ruffians of " white trash" but could not hold it against the free settlers of the North , who , poured in with their families .
The South then felt the necessity of a disposable population , and
And Of The Great Power That Ho!Lds Them....
AND OF THE GREAT POWER THAT HO _! LDS THEM . 375
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/15/
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