Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine Vol 24

Author : William Blackwood
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334127335
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 73 written by William Blackwood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 73: January June, 1853 That it is a despiser of the re straints of law and order, is seen in the unsettled condition of society in the newer slave states, and in the occasional ebullitions of individual and popular fury, to which the hatred of abolitionists and the dread of insar rection at intervals give rise. In all the old slave states our English ideas of obedience to the law, and of the possibility of the slave one day becoming a free man, and possibly even a respected citizen, have been inherited from the period of British rule, and in uence still in some degree the most absolute of the slave-owners. But in the remote regions over which the new slave states extend, the rights of the master have been the leading consideration since they first began to be peopled by broken-down planters from the north and east, so that the restraints of old civilization have scarcely found as yet a fixed home in this unfavourable soil. It is natural, indeed, that the farther men are removed from the influences of general civilization and a really free press, the more should the animal in their constitution predominate over the intellectual and the moral. As an enemy to just social legisla tion, slavery exhibits herself in nearly every legal enactment which bears on the condition of the coloured race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."