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August, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 1.41
hat principle or prejudice has been engraved in the legislation of nearly all the Northwestern States. The Bill of Rights of Oregon (published by authority of an act approved February 25, 1901) prohibits the free negro, or mulatto, from coming within the State; from holding real estate, making contracts or maintaining suit therein; and provides for the punishment of persons who shall bring negroes and mulattoes into the State; harbor, or employ them. Lincoln was but an echo, when, in August, 1862, to a committee of negroes who sought guidance from him, he recommended Central America as the most charming home he could think of for them. For, he said; on this broad continent, not a single man of your race is made the equal of a single man of ours. Go where you are treated the best, and the ban is still upon you. From an early period in Illinois there had existed a system of indenture and registration, whereby the services of negroes were bought and sold. At December term, 1828,
December 11th, 1845 AD (search for this): chapter 1.41
ysterical surface thus quivered, the tremble of the real earthquake beneath the surface was ignored. The Rev. Nehemiah Adams (whose last act, before leaving Boston to seek softer skies for a sick daughter, had been to assist in framing the remonstrance of New England clergymen against the extension of slavery into Kansas and Nebraska) wrote: The South was just on the eye of abolishing slavery. The abolitionists arose and put it back within its innermost entrenchments. As it was on December 11, 1845, an article appeared in the Richmond Whig advocating the abolition of slavery and saying that but for the intemperance of Northern Fanatics, it would be effected. New England and the negro. In the house of them who felt so keenly their mission to call others to repentance, how fared it with the negro? There no Federal compact could run athwart benevolent intent. In the general laws of Massachusetts (compiled in accordance with a resolution of February 22, 1822) it is provided:
September 20th, 1865 AD (search for this): chapter 1.41
mposes a far more deadly yoke than the one it assumes to break. The dogma that all men are born, or are by nature, free and independent, may call for some revision, seeing that man is born, or is by nature, the most dependent of all the animals on earth; and rises to some intuition of freedom, if at all, only through the stern tuition of necessity. The last arrow. In the quiver of doom there remained undrawn one arrow which none doubted would go straight to the mark. On the 20th of September, 1865, Oliver P. Morton said at Richmond, Indiana: Can you conceive that a body of ment white or black, who, as well as their ancestors have been in this condition (i. e., slavery) are qualified to be lifted immediately from their present state into the full exercise of political power? * * * The mere statement of that fact furnishes the answer to the question. To say that such men—and it is no fault of theirs; it is simply their misfortune and the crime of the nation—to say that such men
January 11th, 1861 AD (search for this): chapter 1.41
of the patrons proceed from love of others or from the love of self, cruel as the grave? What is the Standard Oil monopoly against which is hurled such malediction? Simply a thoroughly perfected method to exterminate competition. A liberty of the strong against the weak wild beasts have that. Because they can rise no higher they are wild beasts. Predatory wealth has been built up by predatory laws. Tax Eaters and tax-payers. With a simple dignity befitting senates, on the 11th of January, 1861, Mr. R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, spoke as follows: I have often heard Mr. Calhoun say that most of the conflicts in every government would be found at last to result in the contests between two parties, which he denominated the tax consuming and the tax-paying parties. The tax-consuming party, he said, was that which fed upon the revenues of the government, the spoils of office, the benefits of unequal class legislation. The tax-paying party was that which made the contribut
February 12th, 1853 AD (search for this): chapter 1.41
eby the services of negroes were bought and sold. At December term, 1828, it was held that registered servants are goods and chattels and can be sold on execution. The system had a strong opponent in Edward Coles, who, in the words of Nicolay, though a Virginian, waged relentless war against it, beginning his reform in his own slaves. Where are the paeans of praise to him? The paeans are reserved for another who begins and continues his reforms in some other man's house. On the 12th of February, 1853, an act was passed, making it a crime for a negro to come, or be brought, into the State, providing that any such negro who remained therein ten days should be fined fifty dollars, and in case of inability to pay the fine should be sold to any person who would pay the costs of the trial. The State constitution of 1848 directed the general assembly to pass such laws as will effectually prohibit free persons of color from emigrating to or settling in this State, and to prevent the own
1895 AD (search for this): chapter 1.41
s, in the report of the bureau of education (1900-1901) writes: Here in contact with a superior class, through a period of more than 200 years, this people underwent the most rapid and effectual transition from the depths of pagan barbarism to the threshold of a Christian civilization on record in the annals of mankind. The 250 years of slavery had, indeed, been in itself a great university and the history of the world may be challenged to present a spectacle so remarkable. In the report of 1895 the same writer stated: It was found after emancipation that all the mechanical trades were represented among these people, a portion of whom were free and themselves slave-holders. In circular No. I, 1892, he had reported the condition was not one of special hardship; indeed it was favorable to the growth of the strongest attachments in the more favored household servants. For more than two centuries the American negro received the most effective drill ever given to a savage people. The
1828 AD (search for this): chapter 1.41
Constitution and the Constitution. Was it a symbol of this tumult, that in the year 1828, the ship of the line, Constitution, was surveyed and pronounced unseaworthy; her timbers decayed, and the estimated cost of repairs a sum far in excess of that expended for original construction? Patriots, not a few were prepared for out and out abolition; or (practically the same thing) for the sale at public auction of material, which for some other purpose than that of Ironsides of liberty, might ble man of ours. Go where you are treated the best, and the ban is still upon you. From an early period in Illinois there had existed a system of indenture and registration, whereby the services of negroes were bought and sold. At December term, 1828, it was held that registered servants are goods and chattels and can be sold on execution. The system had a strong opponent in Edward Coles, who, in the words of Nicolay, though a Virginian, waged relentless war against it, beginning his reform i
1834 AD (search for this): chapter 1.41
f the Commonwealth. It passed out of existence (subsilentio), in the general repealing section of an act of March 29, 1834. When in his reply to Hayne, Webster said: The past at least is secure; this was part of that past still under the lock and key of statute. Among the kindly affectioned slaves of my first recollections, remmebered by me with a kind affection, I am satisfied there was not one who wouid have sought, or could have found solace, in the hospitable hand extended from 1788 to 1834. They who bestowed this liberty of the lash became our angry judge. Liberty to be whipped at each recurring sessions of the peace; and so toties quoties! What a door of opportunity for the African—not a subject of the emporor of Morocco. When war raged for freedom, how was it then? In September, 1862, General Dix proposed to remove a number of contrabands from Fortress Monroe to Massachusetts. To this Governor Andrew replied: I do not concur in any way, or to any degree in the plan pr
September, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 1.41
our angry judge. Liberty to be whipped at each recurring sessions of the peace; and so toties quoties! What a door of opportunity for the African—not a subject of the emporor of Morocco. When war raged for freedom, how was it then? In September, 1862, General Dix proposed to remove a number of contrabands from Fortress Monroe to Massachusetts. To this Governor Andrew replied: I do not concur in any way, or to any degree in the plan proposed. For, he explained, thereby you will be deprior one community imposed by another foreign in sympathy, opposed in interest, was not current with our forefathers as the idea of self-government. Emancipation. As incident to the war of 1861, and as a fit and necessary war measure, in September, 1862, was issued a paper which (with the sequel 100 days later) is called proclamation of emancipation. By this in portions of the country called rebellious, slaves were made free, unless by the 1st of January, 1863, said communities ceased to
February 22nd, 1898 AD (search for this): chapter 1.41
ation not exception. The criminal rich. So it comes to pass we have them, who from the official pinnacle are branded as the criminal rich. Anarchy answereth to anarchy, lawlessness at the bottom to lawlessness at the top. The grand triumph of our universal suffrage would seem to be a rediscovery of the ways and means whereby banded capital can hurl as the abject instrument of power, a servile proteletariat. Benjamin Harrison was entitled to know whereof he spoke, when on the 22nd of February, 1898, referring to the speech: A house divided against itself cannot stay half slave and half free, he gave as present paraphrase; This country cannot stay half taxed and half free. This is the reality; the other has done yeoman service to accomplish the reality. This creates the ruling class, whose reason for existence is, in place of reciprocal welfare, to ordain a reciprocal rapine; of which the ultimate promise is the Asiatic system, whereunder the tax-payer shall have no rights whi
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