Category: History - American
If they had not triumphed, do you know who would have gained the victory? Slavery is only a word--a vile word, doubtless, but to which we in time become habituated. To what do we not become habituated? We have stores of indulgence and indifference for the social iniquities whi...
It remains for me to inquire what influence the present crisis may exert on the institutions of the United States. It is at the expense of these institutions that the slave Stat...
8. CHAPTER VIII.General Cass was nearer right than he himself imagined. In arresting from the beginning the development of the plans of the South, by a vigorous attitude, and by the blockade, t...
7. CHAPTER VII.We now possess the principal elements of our solution; we can approach the problem just propounded by the present crisis, and, confining ourselves no longer to the appreciation...
9. CHAPTER IX.Something more difficult to foresee than the suppression, henceforth certain, of slavery, is the consequence of this suppression. The problem of the coexistence of the two races...
5. CHAPTER V.This leads me to examine a side of the American question upon which, attention is, naturally fixed at the present time; how is it that the iniquities of slavery are maintained a...
4. CHAPTER IV.We are not just towards the United States. Their civilization, so different from ours, wounds us in various ways, and we turn from them in the ill-humor excited by their real de...
3. CHAPTER III.I think that I have justified the fundamental idea of this work, and the title which I have given it. If the slavery policy had achieved a new triumph; if the North had not elec...
6. CHAPTER VI.How did they set to work to preach this? I will answer this question by two others: How did Bossuet set to work to write his _Politique tirée de l'Ecriture,_ to proclaim in the...
2. CHAPTER II.I have spoken of the great perils which the United States encountered before the election of Mr. Lincoln. The time has come to enter into some details in justification of this p...
1. CHAPTER I.If they had not triumphed, do you know who would have gained the victory? Slavery is only a word--a vile word, doubtless, but to which we in time become habituated. To what do w...