Baumwollproduktion und pflanzungswirtsehaft in den nordamerikanischen südstaaten: t. Sezessionskrieg und rekonstruktion; grundzuge einer wirtschaftsgeschichte der baumwollstaaten von 1861-1880, 1906

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Duncker & Humblot, 1906
 

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Seite 277 - I further make known that, whether it be competent for me, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of any State or States free ; and whether at any time, or in any case, it shall have become a necessity indispensable to the maintenance of the Government to exercise such supposed power, are questions which, under my responsibility, I reserve to myself, and which I cannot feel justified in leaving to the decision of commanders in the field.
Seite 166 - An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes...
Seite 192 - The right of one belligerent not only to coerce the other by direct force, but also to cripple his resources by the seizure or destruction of his property, is a necessary result of a state of war.
Seite 273 - From the instant that your slaveholding states become the theatre of war — civil, servile, or foreign — from that instant, the war powers of Congress extend to interference with the institution of slavery in every way in which it can be interfered with, from a claim of indemnity for slaves taken or destroyed, to the cession of the state burdened with slavery, to a foreign power.
Seite 352 - Every dollar of the debt created to aid the rebellion against the United States should be repudiated finally and forever. The great mass of the people should not be taxed to pay a debt to aid in carrying on a rebellion which they in fact, if left to themselves, were opposed to. Let those who...
Seite 643 - ... and other outhouses, with teams to draw it from the forest ; he is allowed to keep hogs and milch cows and young cattle which roam and feed with the same right of pasture as the hogs and cattle of the planter free of all charge...
Seite 434 - According to my judgment they ought never to be recognized as capable of acting in the Union, or of being counted as valid States, until the Constitution shall have been so amended as to make it what its framers intended; and so as to secure perpetual ascendency to the party of the Union; and so as to render our republican Government firm and stable forever.
Seite 331 - JH Van Evrie, Negroes and Negro "Slavery"; The First an Inferior Race — the Latter its Normal Condition (New York, 1853).
Seite 290 - Louisiana, Florida and Texas, out of which four States have been carved, and ample territory for four more to be added in due time, if you by this unwise and impolitic act do not destroy this hope, and, perhaps, by it lose all, and have your last slave wrenched from you by stern military rule, as South America and Mexico were, or by the vindictive decree nf a universal emancipation, which may reasonably be expected to follow?
Seite 643 - December, he can lose nothing by the failure or deficient outcome of the crops, and is always sure of his subsistence. As a permanent economic relation this would be startling anywhere betwixt any classes of men brought together in the business of life. Applied to agriculture in any other part of the world, it would be deemed outrageously absurd. But this is only a part of the "privileges" (a much more accurate term than "wages") of the negro fieldhand.

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