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Example sentences for "peculiar institution"

  • Well, judge, you must have seen a good deal of the 'peculiar institution.

  • But little was said about their "peculiar institution" of polygamy, though it was alluded to once or twice, and its sacredness assumed.

  • In other ways than this, the treaties with the minor tribes stressed the "peculiar institution.

  • They were slaveholding tribes, too, yet were supposed by the United States government to have no interest whatsoever in a sectional conflict that involved the very existence of the "peculiar institution.

  • In the lower South particularly were found those conditions which as we shall see later tended to fix the slave status as an integral part of southern life so that in time it came to be spoken of as the South's "peculiar institution.

  • I presume he is not entirely satisfied with the present status of the "Peculiar Institution.

  • On the pages where the daily incidents of the plantation were recorded, I frequently discovered entries that illustrated the "peculiar institution.

  • When I met him at Corinth he was very "radical" in sentiment, and in favor of a thorough destruction of the "peculiar institution.

  • From words they will most assuredly come to blows over that very 'peculiar institution,' and American slavery and all the evils that follow in its train, will pass away.

  • The South will never surrender their 'peculiar institution.

  • It will also doubtless be of general interest to learn something of the workings of the "peculiar institution," and the various phases which it assumes in different sections of the slave States.

  • He urged secession for the purpose of extending and perpetuating for ever the peculiar institution.

  • You cannot but see, I think, by the southern press, that slave-holders begin to fear and tremble for the safety of their 'peculiar institution.

  • It is needless to say that he did not approve of the "peculiar institution.

  • The "peculiar institution" was represented as some great mystery which could not be understood beyond the slave region.

  • Every one at the South introduces its 'peculiar institution' into conversation.

  • It is a ridiculous affair, but as it is as much a 'peculiar institution' as is Southern slavery, I stopped and listened, and after we came into the house Miss S.

  • Mothers, too, would have been hastened Southward to give birth to their offspring; so that the "peculiar institution" might lose none of its prey.

  • Surely such exhibitions will affect the safety of the "peculiar institution!

  • Already have you indeed presented before the world your "peculiar institution" of slavery in a light new and striking.

  • Besides these, there were ten of the students who had resided more or less in the slave States, and were well acquainted with the condition of the people, and the influence of their “peculiar institution” of domestic servitude.

  • He appeared devoted to the interests of the "peculiar institution.

  • General Gaines only awaited permission from his superior to carry out the designs of the slaveholders, who had become alarmed at the dangers to which their "peculiar institution" was subjected.

  • On this subject, let Jewish maxims and Jewish habits be adopted at the South, and the "peculiar institution" would vanish like a ghost at daybreak.

  • What service, then, has the Princeton professor, with all his ingenuity and all his zeal, rendered the "peculiar institution?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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