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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. 1860. Excerpt: ... men who have made the sacred halls of the National Congress a proverb of vulgarity, ribaldry, and ruffianism, come chiefly from the South. And how can it be otherwise? It is not in human naturo to withstand the enervating and demoralizing effect produced by the possession of such stupendous powers as belong to the slaveholder. Selfish, lordly, implacable, revengeful, must any community so circumstanced become; and it is both weak and sinful to be deceived by the roseate hue of the mere surface of its life. It is hard to say whether the system works more mischief to the poor slave or to his master. Its pestilential breath invades the negro hut, and poisons its inmates withsqualidity, indolence, slovenliness, profanity, indecency, despair; or with that childlike thoughtlessness and mirth which, in an enslaved Man, is worse than even despair. But the same breath floats through the scented atmosphere into boudoir and drawing-room; enervates the Southern beauty with voluptuousness and indolence, and kills her with ennui; sometimes, alas makes the bosom that heaves and the heart that beats beneath the silken boddice as cold as marble and as cruel as death; while it steals away from the lord of the soil his Saxon manliness, selfreliance, candor, forbearance, self-control, and love of freedom, and makes him helpless, idle, prodigal, reckless, irascible, sensual, and cruel."--P. 531. III.--French Reviews. I. Revue Des Deux Mondes, January 1. 1860.--1. Une Reforme Administrative en Afrique. I. Des Conditions de Notre Etablissement Colonial: 2. Salome, Scenes de la Foret-Noire: 3. Les Degenerescences do L'Espece Humaine. Origines et Effects de L'Idiotisme et du Cretinismc: 4. D'Espagne et le Gouvernement Constitutionnel ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154376661 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154376664 |
| Weight | 1.89 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.31 In |
| List Price | $42.22 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 590 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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