The form of the family corresponding to civilization and becoming its pronounced custom is monogamy, the supremacy of man over woman, and the monogamous family as the economic unit of society.
The gens, the tribe and their institutions were holy and inviolate.
Emigrating from their settlements west of the Mississippi, where they probably formed a branch of the great Dakota family, they settled at last after long wanderings in the present State of New York.
Latifundian economy based on slave labor was no longer profitable; but in its time it had been the only possible form of agriculture on a large scale.
Commerce, trades and artisan handicrafts, which were carried on in an ever larger scale as slave labor increased, became the ruling factors in gaining a living.
This was owing to the character of her settlers, her nearness to the West Indian slave marts, and the early development of certain staple crops, such as rice, which were adapted to slave labor.
In forming the Constitution they found the slave trade existing, capital invested in it, fields depending upon it for labor, and the whole system resting upon the importation of slave labor.
The Almighty has drawn a line across this continent, on one side of which all soil must forever be cultivated by slave labor, and on the other by free.
Wherever the option exists to employ, at an equal hire, free or slave labor, the former will be decidedly preferred, for the reasons already assigned.
The circumstance that with this cheap slave labor, the South is complaining of suffering, while the North is content and prosperous with dear free labor, is a striking fact and deserves a careful and thorough examination.
We hear of no products of these States, but those produced by slave labor.
All writers of this class, I believe without exception, prefer free labor to slave labor.
This disposes of all the territory that is adapted to Slave Labor or that is claimed by the South.
Abstinence on the part of the people of the free states from the use of the known products of slave labor, in order to render that labor profitless.
Free labor is perfectly in accordance with the spirit of our institutions; slave labor is a relic of a barbarous, despotic age.
To my mind, in the wasteful and blighting influences of slave labor there is a solemn and warning moral.
The Northern merchants and manufacturers are making their fortunes out of the produce of slave labor; the grocer is selling your rice and sugar; how then can these men bear a testimony against slavery without condemning themselves?
I have been making calculations with regard to the probable results of emancipation, and I have ascertained beyond a doubt, that I can cultivate my estate at least one third cheaper by free labor than by slave labor.
He went to Philadelphia, but finding slavery there, retired to a cave, where he lived a most eccentric life, refusing to eat food or wear clothes which had been secured at the expense of animal life, or produced by slave labor.
Here was an unlimited supply of fertile lands which lent themselves readily to the unskillful and exhausting methods of slave labor.
Tobacco and some of the cereals were also produced by slave labor, but they could be produced by free labor North as well as South.
We have now referred to all the clauses of the Constitution as originally adopted relating, by construction or possibility, to slavery or slave labor.
Not exceeding two tenths of the white race South owned, at any time, or were interested in slave labor or slaves.
I will close this chapter with some remarks on slave labor; its effects on the agricultural interests of the South, &c.
It is a trite remark that slave labor is unproductive, when compared with labor performed by free white citizens; and that the agricultural interests of the country have suffered by the introduction of slave labor, &c.
As a general rule, land cultivated by white laborers, will produce from twenty-five to fifty per cent more than land cultivated by slave labor.
Second--The prohibition of the ordinance, applied to territory substantially free from slavery, and which it was well understood was not adapted to slave labor.
These constitute the chief sources of the great wealth of the New England States, to the present day; and these, it is well known, are mainly supported by the products of slave labor at the South.
But in the general, hired service is, in point of fact, as involuntary as slave labor.
In the first place, the African population has gradually receded to those sections of the Union which, from their climate and soil, were better adapted to slave labor.
The only difference between free and slave labor is, that the one is rendered in consequence of a contract, and the other in consequence of a command.
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