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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
but he is not fit to live. Yet, strange to say, the particular passage which called forth this remark was a quotation from the Virginia Debates of 1831. Between the extremes represented by Helper and Thomas Dew, there existed a moderate school of thought, which acknowledged the evils of slavery, especially the burden it imposed upon the whites, but deprecated any artificial attempt toward its abolition. This, it was held, time and natural causes would bring about. Such a writer was J. H. Hammond, of South Carolina. In his Letters on slavery, written in reply to the criticisms of Thomas Clarkson, he conceded that slavery was more expensive than free labour, but that the remedy lay not in immediate abolition but in an increase in the density of the population, which would make the supply of free labour more available. Likewise George M. Weston, a native of Maine, who lived in Washington, pointed out, in his Progress of slavery in the United States (1857), the steady encroachment
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
349, 415, 472 Hale, W. H., 434 Half century of conflict, a, 190 Hall, Bayard Rush, 75 Hall, C. C., 214 Hall, C. F., 168 Hall, Charles S., 496 Hall, E. H., 207 Hall, Fitzedward, 473, 474-75 Hall, G. Stanley, 239, 422 Hall, Sharlot M., 133 Hallam, 453, 456, 458 Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 40, 449, 549 Hallesche Nachrichten, 577 Halpern, M. L., 604 Halstead, 327 Hamblin, Jacob, 149 Hamilton, A., 430 Hamilton, Sir, William, 228, 234, 237 Hanlet, 269, 483 Hammond, J. H., 344 Hampden-Sidney College, 479 Hampton Institute, 423, 513 Hampton's magazine, 316 Hand of Lincoln, the, 46 Hans Breitmann's ballads, 23 583, 584 Hansen-Taylor, Marie, 586 Hanson, J. M., 514 Hapgood, Isabel, 164 Happy is the Miller, 516 Happy marriage, a, 284 Harbaugh, Henry, 584, 585 Harbaugh's Harfe, 584 Harber, G. B., 168 Harbinger, the, 437 Hardy, Arthur Sherburne, 86 Hardy, Thomas, 316 Harlan, Justice, 360 Harland, Henry, 91 Harmony of inter