Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the SouthThis book condemns slavery, by appealed to whites' rational self-interest, rather than any altruism towards blacks. Helper claimed that slavery hurt the Southern economy by preventing economic development and industrialization, and that it was the main reason why the South had progressed so much less than the North since the late 18th century. |
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Page 83 - of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep a market where men should be bought and sold, he has at length prostituted his negative for suppressing any legislative attempt to prohibit and restrain this execrable commerce. Hear him further; he says: " We hold these truths to be self-evident,
Page 109 - it is hard to be convinced that an Englishman, much less a gentleman, should plead for it." Again, he says: " Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person; this nobody has a right to but himself.
Page 109 - It is the curse of kings to be attended By slaves, that take their humors for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life, And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humor than advised respect.
Page 127 - Let the oppressed go free." " Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." " Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor." " The wages of him that ia hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
Page 83 - What an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty; and the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow man a bondage, one
Page 110 - they are free. They touch our country and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire, that where Britain's
Page 110 - less can they reduce the offspring." Again, he says; " The primary aim of society is to protect individuals in the enjoyment of those absolute rights which were vested in them by the immutable laws of nature. Hence it follows that the first and primary end of human laws is to maintain those absolute rights of individuals.
Page 98 - or other accidents) are entitled to all the inherent rights and liberties of his natural born subjects within the Kingdom of Great Britain ; that it is their fundamental right, that no man should suffer in his person or property without a fair trial, and judgment given by his peers, or by the law of
Page 148 - Liberty to the captive, and the opening of the prison doors to them that are bound.' As you value truth, honor, justice, consistency— aye, humanity even, wipe out the black blot which defiles the border of our escutcheon, and the country will then be in reality what
Page 94 - the blood of American patriots at Lexington. " III. Resolved—That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people, are, and of right ought to be, a sovereign and self-governing association, under the control of no power other than that of our God, and the general