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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.) 4 0 Browse Search
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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)
t 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 of free labour upon slave labour along the border of the South, the ultimate advantage in the continuance of this process, and the purely political character of the demand for the extension of slavery into the territories of the Northwest. Such undoubtedly were the convictions of thousands; but they smacked too much of compromise in a decade when an
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)
at, 516 Weitling, Wilhelm, 344 Welb, 589 Welcker, 461, 462 We'll all go down to Rowser's, 516 Welles, Gideon, 351 Wells, David A., 354, 355, 439, 440 Wells, H. G., 419 Wendell, Barrett, 417, 423 We're marching Round the Levy, 516 Werther, 453 Wesley, 500 West, Max, 359 West, Rebecca, 99 Westcott, Edward Noyes, 95 Western America including California and Oregon, 136 Western literary magazine and Institute of instruction, 404 Western Wilds, 143 Weston, George M., 344 Westward Ho! 55 Westward movement, the, 187 Westways, 90 Wet days at Edgewood, 111 Weyl, Walter, 365 Weyman, Stanley, 287 What I saw in California in 1846–; 1847, 142 What is Darwinism? 209 What is man? 20 What is vital in Christianity? 417 What Maisie knew, 106 What social classes owe to each other, 440 Wheeler, George M., 158 Wheelock, Eleazar, 393 When Johnny comes marching home, 497 When Knighthood was in flower, 91, 288 When the Frost is on the
The Daily Dispatch: October 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs at the South. (search)
ued. The result was, five rebels were killed, one of whom belonged to the Louisiana "Tiger" regiment. None of our men were injured. Commander C. H. Pope having asked an inquiry into his conduct while in the command of the Brooklyn, in respect to the escape of the rebel steamer Sumter from the Mississippi river in June last, a Court of Inquiry upon the case has been ordered to convene in this city on Wednesday. The Court consists of Captains Shubrick, Stribling, and Sands; Judge Advocate, Geo. M. Weston. The amount of forage issued by the Government daily, in use in Washington and vicinity, is, of hay 215 tons, of grain 180 tons. The household furniture, etc., lost by the capture of the schooner Fair fax, on Saturday morning, belonged to Mrs. Elizabeth Evans, of Williamburg, N. Y., and was valued at about $2,500. It is stated that Thompson Brothers, Bankers, of New York, have made arrangements, through their agents here, to dispose of a large amount of Treasury no