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Chapter 7: the shadow of slavery
Dana and Lincoln
human Restlessness and divine Providence
early views of the tribune
lecture on slavery at Chicago
Ericsson's caloric engine
principles of Dana and Greeley
the blue pencil
It is said that a few years before the beginning of this decade, Abraham Lincoln, in his first speech at New Salem announcing himself as a candidate for the legislature, defined his political principles as follows: I believe in a protective tariff, in a sypro-slavery boldly assumes that slavery is essentially good.
Because the negro race is incapable of material improvement it ought to be held in slavery.
Other subjects of greater interest came to the front, and among them the application of Ericsson's caloric engine to marine navigation about this time began to attract great attention.
An ocean steamer, two thousand tons burden, named after the inventor, had been constructed, furnished with engines of this type, and pronounced a success.
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