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'''''On Slavery''''' is a book by [[L. Cheves McCord]] which sought to defend [[Slavery in the Confederate States of America|slavery]] in the [[Confederacy]] not only morally, as past writers have done, but economically.

== Introduction ==
"Slavery is truly and fairly a subject for the investigation of Political Economy... [it is] a system which it is recently the fashion to contemn, but which must now come boldly forward to claim its true place in the world’s development; and it is before the tribunal of Political Economy that it must claim this place, and prove the justice of its cause."<ref>[[Louisa S. McCord]], "Slavery and Political Economy," in ''[[De Bow's Review]]'', Vol. 21, pp. 422-469.</ref> [[Louisa S. McCord|My mother]] wrote these words in 1856, and not by even the slightest degree have they faded in truth or intensity in the years since. Slavery feeds the world. Slavery clothes the world. Slavery carries the world: and for this the world should be eternally grateful, yet what do we receive in return? Condemnation and harassment from the Yankees to the north and Mexicans to the south, and from all the mongrel peoples of Europe. Only their leaders are wise enough to see the value that slavery has brought to the world...

== Chapter 1: On Rights ==
Man lives, but life cannot support itself, and only through the use of his faculties to appropriate and assimilate the elements of the world in which he lives can he, Man, preserve and develop his life.<ref>[[Frédéric Bastiat|Bastiat]], ''The Law'', p. 1.</ref> This basic fact cannot be disputed; anything more, for instance that it is God who bestows life upon Man, is a matter of faith. But God has provided much evidence for His existence. The same cannot be said for the too-common assertion that all men are equal or all men are born equal. "In what sense can this broad assertion be maintained as matter of fact? Or so stated as not to be liable to cavil and contradiction?"<ref>[[Thomas Cooper|Cooper]], ''Essay on the Foundation of Civil Government'', p. 1.</ref>

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Reference:On Slavery

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'''''On Slavery''''' is a book by [[L. Cheves McCord]] which sought to defend [[Slavery in the Confederate States of America|slavery]] in the [[Confederacy]] not only morally, as past writers have done, but economically.

== Chapter 1: On Rights ==
...In ''The Law'', [[Frédéric Bastiat|Bastiat]] says that Nature or God bestowed Life upon Man and granted him faculties to appropriate and assimilate the elements into which God thrust him (Man). From Life, he says, springs the "right" to existence; from faculties, the "right" to liberty; from assimilation, the "right" to property.<ref>Bastiat, ''The Law'', pp. 1-2.</ref> [[Thomas Cooper|Cooper]] is once again vindicated when he wrote that all laws of nature are mere useful systems of writers.<ref>Cooper, ''Lecture on the Elements of Political Economy'', pp. 53-54.</ref>

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Reference:The Great American Game

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'''''The Great American Game: European "Neo-Colonialism" in the New World''''' is a book by historian Henry Davis.

Jeongmyo War

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The '''Jeongmyo War''', also called the '''Korean War''', was a joint expedition conducted by [[France]] and the [[United States of America|Union]] from February to April 1867.

it is believed the Ministry of the Army approved the war in order to distract French forces so that he may more easily conduct the [[Coup of 15 March]] and install [[Henry V of France|the Count of Chambord]] on the French throne.

United States of America

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The '''United States of America''', also called the '''Union''' or the '''US''' or '''USA''', is a country in North America. It borders the [[Confederate States of America]] to the south.

Jeongmyo War

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The '''Jeongmyo War''', also called the '''Korean War''', was a joint expedition conducted by [[France]] and the [[United States]] from February to April 1867.

it is believed the Ministry of the Army approved the war in order to distract French forces so that he may more easily conduct the [[Coup of 15 March]] and install [[Henry V of France|the Count of Chambord]] on the French throne.

Henry V of France

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'''Henry V''' was [[List of French monarchs|King of the French]] from 1867 until his death in 1883.

On March 15, 1867, as a non-trivial amount of French forces were fighting in the [[Jeongmyo War]] in Korea, members of the French military stormed the [[Tuileries Palace]], detained [[Napoleon III]] and his family, and proclaimed the Count of Chambord as "King of the French." The event is now known as the [[Coup of 15 March]] or the Coup of the Ides.

In 1869, his wife, [[Maria Theresa of France]], bore a son, [[Henry VI of France|Henri]], but died in childbirth. (Henry V never remarried.)<ref name="leroi">Cf. Montplaisir (2008), ''Le comte de Chambord dernier roi de France''</ref> The birth of "Henry the Miraculous" threw the [[Orléanism|Orléanists]] in disarray, as they banked on Henry V's remaining childless. In anticipation of a repeat of the July Revolution, Henry V preemptively had notable Orléanists detained.

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Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar

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'''Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar''', nicknamed '''Cal Lamar''', was a Confederate slave trader and businessman.

Lamar was the son of [[Gazaway Bugg Lamar]] and Jane Meek Lamar (née Cresswell). He was the only child of Gazaway and Jane to survive the steamship ''Pulaski'' disaster.<ref name="wikipedia">Cf. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Augustus_Lafayette_Lamar Wikipedia]</ref>

Having lost much of his fortune in the [[Panic of 1857]], Lamar sought to regain it through slave trading. He applied to transport passengers from Africa on the ship ''Richard Cobden'', but his cousin-in-law [[Howell Cobb]], then [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]], denied all three applications as he saw them to be a ruse to import slaves. Lamar responded by issuing an eleven-page pamphlet insulting Cobb.<ref name="wikipedia"/>

When the [[War of Southern Independence]] broke out, he briefly served in the [[Confederate States Army]], but did not see much action. After the war, with a loan from his father's [[Bank of the Republic]] and French investments, Lamar established a legitimate trading venture. Despite his former vendetta with his cousin-in-law [[Howell Cobb]], he came to support him and his free-trade [[Cobbites|Cobbite]] faction against the protectionist [[Grabblers]], as tariffs would have hurt his business.

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Winans-Hunley Ship

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Cigar ship

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The '''Winans-Hunley Ship''', commonly called the '''cigar ship''', was a submarine developed by slave traders in the [[Confederate States of America]].

== Background ==
=== Winans' cigar ship ===
The famed [[Baltimore]] inventor and businessman [[Ross Winans]] developed a prototype submarine in the late 1850s.

=== Hunley's ''Pioneer'' ===
[[Horace Lawson Hunley]] from [[New Orleans]] developed a submarine called the ''Pioneer''.

=== Collaboration ===
In 1863, following the disastrous [[First Tamaulipas campaign]], the [[Confederate States Congress|Confederate Congress]] sought to reform the [[Confederate Army|Army]] and [[Confederate Navy|Navy]]. The famed inventor [[Ross Winans]] personally traveled from his home in [[Baltimore]] to [[Richmond]] to pitch his [[Winans Steam Gun|steam gun]] and "cigar ship" as well as other less-developed prototypes; Congress was excited to hear about the steam gun, but not so much about the cigar ship, which they regarded as a "mere curiosity." When news of Winans' speech to Congress reached [[New Orleans]], [[Horace Lawson Hunley]] began advertising his ''Pioneer'' as a competitor. However, he was disappointed to learn that Congress was uninterested in Winans' submarine.

However, it got the attention of [[C. F. Hatcher]], one of New Orleans' most prominent slave traders. He wanted to expand his business to compete against his competitors like [[Thomas B. Poindexter]], who was then the wealthiest slave trader in the city.

Slavery in the Confederate States of America

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'''Slavery in the [[Confederate States of America]]''' was enshrined in its [[Constitution of the Confederate States of America|constitution]].

== History ==
=== Slave raids ===
The [[Treaty of Havana]] stipulated that Confederates would be prohibited from kidnapping freedmen and Unionists would be prohibited from helping slaves escape (targeting the [[Underground Railroad]]) and be obligated to return escaped slaves. The treaty's wording was vague and both sides continued to conduct their activities in secret. The [[Republican Party]] did not waste the opportunity to label the Confederacy as the "New Barbary" led by colorful and abominable figures as [[Nathan Bedford Forrest]] and [[Cal Lamar]]. The [[Democratic Party]], which was more segregationist, did not publicly oppose the slave raids and some members even admitted to supporting them. There were also a number of covert, poorly documented slave raids in Caribbean nations, notably [[Haiti]].

The situation worsened after the [[Christie Affair]] in [[Brazil]]. Though the affair itself had nothing to do with slavery, that it brought the [[United Kingdom]] to the brink of war with Brazil forced the former to lessen the enforcement of the [[Aberdeen Act]] in order to ease tensions.

Confederate States of America

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The '''Confederate States of America''', commonly called the '''Confederacy''' or the '''CSA''' and nicknamed '''Dixie''', is a country in North America. It borders the [[United States of America]] to the north and [[Mexico]] to the south.

Delaware

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'''Delaware''' is a [[States of the United States of America|state]] of the [[United States of America]]. Its largest city is [[Wilmington]] and its capital and second-largest city is [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]].

== History ==
=== Postbellum ===
During and after the war, anticipating the abolition of slavery and reprisal from Unionist and anti-slavery radicals, many slaveholding families from Delaware resettled in [[Maryland]]. In particular, they would help rebuild [[Salisbury, Maryland]], which had been ravaged by a fire in 1860. Meanwhile, many black freedmen and escaped slaves moved to Delaware, such that by 1864 it was called "the blackest state in the Union." That same year, the state abolished slavery, thereby eliminating slavery in the Union. The Confederate intellectual [[George Fitzhugh]] visited Delaware during his tour of the Union and wrote about it extensively in his work ''[[Race Relations]]''.

The [[1870 United States census]] showed that Delaware's population had swelled from 112,216 (90,589 white; 19,829 free colored; 1,798 slave) to 162,621 (100,234 white; 62,387 colored). Though they were supposed to be well-integrated into Delaware society, the state simply could not handle the sheer number of black immigrants and many ghettos formed within and without cities like [[Wilmington]] and [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]].

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Reference:The Truth of the Matter

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'''''The Truth of the Matter''''' is the title commonly given to [[Howell Cobb]]'s memoir that he was working on at the time of his death and that was edited and published by R. G. Barnwell, the editor of [[De Bow's Review]].

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Reference:The Truth of the Matter

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Reference:The Truth of the Matter

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Maryland

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'''Maryland''' is a [[States of the Confederate States of America|state]] of the [[Confederate States of America]]. It borders the Confederate state of [[Virginia]] to the south and west, the [[States of the United States of America|Union states]] of [[Pennsylvania]] and [[Delaware]] to the north and east respectively (across the [[Mason-Dixon line]]), and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Its capital is [[Annapolis]] and its largest city is [[Baltimore]].

== History==
=== War of Southern Independence ===
Maryland very nearly remained with the Union during the [[War of Southern Independence]]. A number of leading citizens, including physician and slaveholder [[Richard Sprigg Steuart]], placed considerable pressure on Governor [[Thomas Holliday Hicks]] to summon the state Legislature to vote on secession. The rumor quickly reached President [[Abraham Lincoln]], who was allegedly terrified that the Legislature would vote to secede and cut off [[Washington, D.C.]], especially after the [[Baltimore Riots]], and so he wrote an order to Major General [[Robert Patterson]] of the Department of Washington (Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and the District of Columbia) to "detain those who would violate the integrity of the Union through their seditious sentiments." Patterson had already ordered Brigadier General [[Benjamin Butler]], with the 8th Massachusetts, to open and secure a route from [[Annapolis]] through [[Annapolis Junction]] to [[Washington, D.C.]], and was to send the arrest order to him as well. However, the order ended up in the hands of Baltimore mayor [[George William Brown]], who immediately took it to the press; when the 8th Massachusetts arrived by ship at Annapolis on April 20, the [[Lincoln Arrest Order]], as it became popularly known, caused outrage across Maryland and led to the "[[Battle of Annapolis]]" where a mob / militia drove the 8th Massachusetts back to the sea.

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= Welcome to the Cross Bottony Wiki =
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