Speech of the Hon Montgomery Blair On the Causes of the Rebellion And in Suppo
Speech of the Hon Montgomery Blair On the Causes of the Rebellion And in Suppo
Montgomery Blair
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" Controlling the trade in slaves, who cost nothing but '' trinkets, and toys, and refuse arms, England gained by '^ the sale of the children of Africa into bondage in Amer- " ica, the cajiital which built up and confirmed a British " empire in Hindostan. Tlie political effects of this traffic " were equally perceptible in the West Indies. The mer- ^'cantile system, of which tlie whole colonial system was " the essential branch, culminated hi tlie slave trade, and in " the commercial jjolicy ad...opted with regard to the chief pro- " duce of slave labor. " Here is the clue to the conspiracy of kings Avhich made negro slavery its fulcrum. It is an instinctive fact tliat the conspiracy of the slaveholders — the oligarchs in the South — against the free Governments of this continent, originated in the same passions, avarice, and ambition, looking to territorial conquest and political power, and negro slavery was alike the instrument of both. No fact could more strongly elucidate the immense force which the absolute control of a system of slavery, though wielding a mass of the lowest caste of laborers, may exert over greater numbers of amiddle order not soconcentrated under a single will.
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