This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...been defeated by his Majesty's negative, --thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few British corsairs to the lasting interests of the American States, and to the rights of human nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice." "I blame men," said Mr. Bright, "who are eager to admit into the family of nations ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...been defeated by his Majesty's negative, --thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few British corsairs to the lasting interests of the American States, and to the rights of human nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice." "I blame men," said Mr. Bright, "who are eager to admit into the family of nations a State which offers itself to us, based upon a principle, I will undertake to say, more odious and more blasphemous than was ever heretofore dreamed of in Christian or Pagan, in civilized or in savage times. "The leader of this revolt proposes this monstrous thing--that over a territory forty times as large as England, the blight and curse of slavery shall be forever perpetuated. I cannot believe, for my part, that such a fate will befall that fair land, stricken though it now is with the ravages of war. I cannot believe that civilization, in its journey with the sun, will sink into endless night in order to gratify the ambition of the leaders of this revolt, who seek to--'Wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.' "They are not only slave owners, slave buyers and Sellers, but that which out of Pandemonium itself never before was conceived of, --they are slave breeders for the slave-market; and these men Mr. Yancey and Mr. Mason, who had been sent from the South as envoys have come to your country, and are to be met with at elegant tables in London, and are in fast friendship with some of your public men, and are constantly found in some of your newspaper offices; and they are here to ask Englishmen--Englishmen with a history for freedom--to join hands with their atrocious conspiracy." It ought never to be forgotten in America, that, when five hundred thousand working-people i...
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Very Good. First American edition. 460pp. 4pp. of advertisements in rear. Decorative red cloth stamped in gilt. Spine faded, endpapers lightly soiled, still very good. Biographies on Peel, Palmerston, Shaftesbury, Bright, Forster, Beaconsfield, Fawcett and Gladstone.
