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“Sociology of the south”, by George Fitzhugh. Summary |
Makes several arguments in support of slavery. Says that slavery is not a “necessary evil” but rather is a positive good. The rationale he presented was the blacks were inferior to the whites, as so the whites could best govern them. Also the condition of life as a slave in America was superior to the condition of life as a freeman in Africa, where they suffered frequent wars, African slavery, and barbarism. This was an argument which was foreign both to the founders and the southern plantation owners.
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“Sociology of the south”, by George Fitzhugh. Quotes |
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“Now, it is clear the Athenian democracy would not suit a Negro nation, nor will government of mere laws suffice for the individual Negro. He is but a grown up child, and must be governed as a child, not as a lunatic or criminal. The master occupies towards him the place of parent or guardian.”
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“Secondly, the negro is improvident; will not lay up in summer for the wants of winter; will not accumulate in youth for the exigencies of age. He would become an insufferable burden to society. Society has the right to prevent this, and can only do so by subjecting him to domestic slavery.”
Quote 3
“We would remind those who deprecate and sympathize with negro slavery, and this slavery here relieves him from a far more cruel slavery in Africa, or from idolatry and cannibalism, and every brutal vice and crime that can disgrace humanity; and that it Christianizes, protects, supports, and civilizes him; that it governs him far better than free laborers at the north are governed.”
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“Disquisition on Government”, By John Calhoun. Summary
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Calhoun made the argument that a state should be able to judge the constitutionality of a law, and if found unconstitutional, then they should be able to nullify its operation in that state. Also said that if a state thought a law judged constitutional violated its rights, then they could secede from the union.
Calhoun also talked about the two types of majorities in the American system, which were a numerical majority and a concurrent majority. The numerical was a majority of numbers, being 50 percent plus one. He said this is what our system is largely based on and was fundamentally unjust, since a bare majority could trample on rights of bare minority.
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“Disquisition on Government”, By John Calhoun. Quotes
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First inaugural Address, By Abraham Lincoln. Summary |
This speech was addressed, in part, to "moderate" southerners who still valued the union, who Lincoln believed made up the majority of southern population. Points out that in his past speeches he never mentioned abolishing slavery. Addresses the argument of southerners that the constitution was the start of the union, explaining that the union was older than the constitution, and started with the articles of confederation. |
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First Inaugural address, By Abraham Lincoln. Quotes |
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"Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the southern states that by the accession of a Republican administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. The most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existedd and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you.
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"I now re-iterate these sentiments, and in doing so I only press upon the pubic attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible that the property, peace, and security of no section are to be in any wise endangered by the now incoming administration." |
