The Destiny of the Races of This Continent: An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association of Boston, Massachusetts, on the 26th of January, 1859 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture rigide

Blair, Frank P.

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ISBN 10 : 0428971334 ISBN 13 : 9780428971335

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Destiny of the Races of This Continent: An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association of Boston, Massachusetts, on the 26th of January, 1859

The present epoch is a new starting point in our Government. The impulse given by the movers of the Revolution has come to a pause, and all seems tending to receive a new direction. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, were the rights which it was the design of those who framed our. Institutions gradually to establish for all the races of our continent. T hose great men knew that the current of public senti ment flowed with full volume in that channel which their toil and their patriotism had worked out, not only for the freedom of those whose cour age had conquered. It, but for those even beyond the ocean who sympa thized with the effort. But their first thought was for the races at home. Emancipation of the African slaves, that had been thrust upon our shores by the cupidity of our British oppressors and their minions here, was Speedily accomplished throughout the northern part of the Confed eracy, under the impulse which first prompted our fathers to assert their own freedom. Abolition of the slave trade, with a w to the same result ultimately in all the States, was the unanimous act of the nation; and before this was done, to preclude an inducement'for its continuance, the ordinance of 1787, excluding Slavery from all its Territories, was voted by the Confederation, before the Constitution existed to add its sanction. That other inferior race among us, the Indian, was recog nised as having rights which the white man was bound to respect; that personal liberty, of which their kindred tribes of the south had been deprived by the Spaniards; was recognised as a birthright, in which they were to be protected, as well as that quasi-ownership in the lands. They occupied, of which they could not be divested without a compen sation deemed by themselves an equivalent.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0428971334
• ISBN 13: 9780428971335
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 42
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