England, the United States, And the Southern Confederacy
England, the United States, And the Southern Confederacy
Fitzwilliam Sargent
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Almost all the great and useful enterprises of the country, its com- 1 See the various histories of the United States, anci the early English Colonies of America ; Colton's "Progress of the United States; " Olmsted's "Seaboard Slave States, " kc. &c. ^ Address of Governor Hammond, of South Carolina, in the Southern Literary Messenger. ITS EFFECTS OX EDUCATION. 83 niercial and industrial successes, are due to Northern capital, energy, and intelligence. It is the North wliich has established all ...the OTeat religious and educational institutions of the land. And the reason of tliis is obvious. By degrading labour, slavery has paralysed the mass of the white population of the South ; by accumulating the wealth, the education, and the honours of the country in the hands of a very few persons, it has necessarily limited the number and lessened the force of the ordinary stimuli to exertion, even to these few ; by vitiating the general standard of excellence, it has contracted the capacities and lowered the aims even of the best.
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