Hints to emigrants; or to those who may contemplate emigrating to the United States of America - Softcover
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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. 1848 Excerpt: ... members of the slave states have no legal power to remove slavery without the general action of the state, much less have the free states that ability. They regret its existence, but they cannot help it; and if they do not unite wilh the abolition party, as I do not, it is because they believe its spirit is unchristian; its plans unwise; it is injuring a cause which it professes to benefit, and is retarding a consummation which it proposes to accelerate. It cannot be disguised, slavery is an evil of fearful magnitude; on its hideous and portentous form, men gaze with mingled disgust and terror. It is a foul blot on our proud national escutcheon; it stains our chivalric banner; it is a strange and foul anomaly and inconsistency. It mocks with bitter scorn our boasted Declaration, that God has made all men free and equal--a sacred truth which we have uttered as the watch-word of liberty--which we have guarded with our lives--which we have baptized with our blood--on which we have planted the firm foot of our independence--from which we have hurled defiance to tyrants, and on whose hallowed altar, we have sworn hostility to oppression forever. But to our farm. I have said that I would rather farm here than chop down trees and work among the stumps. In the first place, this open country is generally more healthy, owing to there being a freer circulation of air, and no decaying vegetable matter as in the woods--a fruitful source of disease. In the next place, farming this land will be to us far more pleasant, and, I believe, quite as profitable. Let us see. Here are six or seven hundred acres; it may be bought, say for five dollars per acre. (In some instances these farms may be had for nothing, in others for ten dollars per acre, according to circumstances.) I...
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