Jefferson Davis His Life And Personality
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It was the child of Douglas, begotten by his eager ambition for party leadership and then the presidency.
In magnitude of historic consequences that bill is without an equal in all passing Congress up to that time, or perhaps to this. Like a bombshell it startled the thousands upon thousands in the North who were reading with swimming eyes the fate of Uncle Tom in that epoch-making fiction " Uncle Tom s Cabin, " and rallied every hitherto latent opponent HIS LIFE AND PERSONALITY 87 of slavery t...o the active support of the new-born Republican Party, which, under the mighty impulse of fervent recruits, marched, so to speak, with flying banners to the boundaries of the territories, south as well as north of the Missouri Compromise line, and proclaimed that slavery should not advance another step. That position it never abandoned, and the world has said it was right and wound its chaplets on the brows of its leaders.
But what did it mean to the South? This, and this only: that notwithstanding their forefathers had marched to Cambridge to save Boston after Lexington and by the way, this book is written within a look and a throw of the Old Elm where Washington took command, had yielded to New England desire to extend the time for stopping the slave trade when framing the Constitution; had paid their full share of the burden imposed by the operations of the tariff to protect the products of Northern factories from foreign competition; had done their full part in the War of 1812 on land and sea; indeed, had practically alone defeated the British veterans at New Orleans and borne the brunt of the Mexican War; yet, and nevertheless, not one of them all should take his property in slaves with him into an adjacent territory to establish a new home; not one be allowed to take with him the old mammy who had rocked him in the cradle, or the old " uncle" who had carried him on his shoulder in childhood, 88 JEFFERSON DAVIS and shown him how to make and set his traps for rabbits, partridges and wild pigeons; not one should go with him to his new home.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It was the child of Douglas, begotten by his eager ambition for party leadership and then the presidency.
In magnitude of historic consequences that bill is without an equal in all passing Congress up to that time, or perhaps to this. Like a bombshell it startled the thousands upon thousands in the North who were reading with swimming eyes the fate of Uncle Tom in that epoch-making fiction " Uncle Tom s Cabin, " and rallied every hitherto latent opponent HIS LIFE AND PERSONALITY 87 of slavery t...o the active support of the new-born Republican Party, which, under the mighty impulse of fervent recruits, marched, so to speak, with flying banners to the boundaries of the territories, south as well as north of the Missouri Compromise line, and proclaimed that slavery should not advance another step. That position it never abandoned, and the world has said it was right and wound its chaplets on the brows of its leaders.
But what did it mean to the South? This, and this only: that notwithstanding their forefathers had marched to Cambridge to save Boston after Lexington and by the way, this book is written within a look and a throw of the Old Elm where Washington took command, had yielded to New England desire to extend the time for stopping the slave trade when framing the Constitution; had paid their full share of the burden imposed by the operations of the tariff to protect the products of Northern factories from foreign competition; had done their full part in the War of 1812 on land and sea; indeed, had practically alone defeated the British veterans at New Orleans and borne the brunt of the Mexican War; yet, and nevertheless, not one of them all should take his property in slaves with him into an adjacent territory to establish a new home; not one be allowed to take with him the old mammy who had rocked him in the cradle, or the old " uncle" who had carried him on his shoulder in childhood, 88 JEFFERSON DAVIS and shown him how to make and set his traps for rabbits, partridges and wild pigeons; not one should go with him to his new home.
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