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There Is No Doubt That In The Gig-Antic ...
turned its face towards the African slave trade , closed since 1808 , ; and it became strongly their interest to re-open it . The South
now declared it was unconstitutional to close it ; in 1857 the governor of South Carolina said so . In 1858 the newspapers of
the South advocated the opening of this market , and there were of from Africa landed at the mouth of the
Mississi cargoes ppi when negroes we were at New Orleans in the spring of 1858 . At that time the governors of the Southern States spoke openly
of their hostilities to the North , and I remember in the address of the of Alabama to the State Assembly at Montgomery , he
urged governor the increase of the State army , to resist the North if it encroached on their rihts . In 1859 associations were formed to
new re-open doctrine the slave in the trade States g , and . A every Mississi effort , ppi paper made to the disseminate True Sout 7 ier this ? i -
, , offered a prize for the best sermon in favour of _free trade in humanflesh !
More and more slaves , in spite of the law , were landed in the South in 1859 and 1860 , and in fact now , practically , the slave trade is
established . We must just touch here on the decision in the
momentouscase of Dred Scott , in which Chief Justice Janey of Missouri pronounced Dred Scott a slave , although he had been freed by a
residence in a Free State . The Chief Justice went the whole length _, of the encroachment of the new party in the South , and pronounced
that there was no difference between a slave and any other property ; _, and secondlthat all American citizens might settle with their
property in any y , part of the Union in which they pleased . By this decision the Union miht be led with slave-ownersand New
York and Massachusetts g { all their peop laws being set aside ) become , really Slave States !
The Southern aggressors became more insolent , and even the demopart Union cratic y formed part ; they y refused in therefore the to South go separated , the much the whole , as and they lengths thi of s desired the split of the in to the preserve " thoroug Southern in the the h "
camp was the real cause of victory Republicans election of Lincoln . As soon as the Slave States saw they stood _, alonewith no party to abet them in the North , they decided on
, secession . The democratic party was for free trade State rights ; that is ,..
it was for not meddling with slavery in the State , and it inclined with always this for policy the ri , g and hts of wanted slave-owners something : yet more the South than free was trade not satisfied as we _^
understand itand as the Democrats understood it ; and we must not , trade the suppose caus Democrats , e as of many the ? war do Free in , or Eng why trade land did , in that the human the South desire beings break for the free with Democrats trade the free was
, would not have supported , but that is one of the points the South .
is determined to gain .
376 Of Those Who Are The Peopeety Of Oth...
376 OF THOSE WHO ARE THE PEOPEETY OF OTHERS ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 376, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/16/
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