A Discourse on Slavery: Delivered Before the Anti-slavery Society in Littleton, N. H., February 22, 1839, Being the Anniversary of the Birth of Washington |
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They spread abroad a light that reveals the dark recesses of cruelty , crime and
pollution . They make men feel that there is something more important than
money , personal gratification , or safety even , when bought at the cost of
innocence ...
They spread abroad a light that reveals the dark recesses of cruelty , crime and
pollution . They make men feel that there is something more important than
money , personal gratification , or safety even , when bought at the cost of
innocence ...
Σελίδα 9
When they were oppressed , they could always flee to the Temple of Theseus ,
where they were free from the master's cruelty and tyranny . Have the slaves on
our American plantations such privileges as these ? Can they sue their masters
at ...
When they were oppressed , they could always flee to the Temple of Theseus ,
where they were free from the master's cruelty and tyranny . Have the slaves on
our American plantations such privileges as these ? Can they sue their masters
at ...
Σελίδα 12
Не ” will hardly hesitate before any extreme of suffering and cruelty . The thorny
recollections of past injustice and wrong will embitter his hate for his victim , and ,
drunkard - like , he will drown the past in the greater cruelties of the present .
Не ” will hardly hesitate before any extreme of suffering and cruelty . The thorny
recollections of past injustice and wrong will embitter his hate for his victim , and ,
drunkard - like , he will drown the past in the greater cruelties of the present .
Σελίδα 26
It is often said that the interest of the master would prevent his cruelty to his
slaves . But we see that the interest of the northern farmer does not prevent his
cruelty to his cattle ; does not prevent his starving them , and whipping them to
death in ...
It is often said that the interest of the master would prevent his cruelty to his
slaves . But we see that the interest of the northern farmer does not prevent his
cruelty to his cattle ; does not prevent his starving them , and whipping them to
death in ...
Σελίδα 28
But I do not wish to rest any argument upon individual cases of cruelty . I wish
merely to give you an outline of the system . This I have done by quoting from the
slave laws - public documents that cannot be questioned . From these you may ...
But I do not wish to rest any argument upon individual cases of cruelty . I wish
merely to give you an outline of the system . This I have done by quoting from the
slave laws - public documents that cannot be questioned . From these you may ...
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Σελίδα 8 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee : he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
Σελίδα 18 - There are certain vital principles in our free republican governments which will determine and overrule an apparent and flagrant abuse of legislative power; as to authorize manifest injustice by positive law ; or to take away that security for personal liberty or private property, for the protection whereof the government was established.
Σελίδα 4 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial?
Σελίδα 24 - States, for the purpose of obtaining a territory on the coast of Africa, or at some other place, not within any of the states or territorial governments of the United States...
Σελίδα 8 - Slaves shall be deemed, held, taken, reputed and adjudged in law to be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators, and assigns, TO ALL INTENTS, CONSTRUCTIONS, AND PURPOSES WHATSOEVER.
Σελίδα 44 - If so, let me tell our friends of the South who differ from us, that the war which the abolitionists wage against us is of a very different character, and far more effective. It is a war of religious and political fanaticism, mingled, on the part of the leaders, with ambition and the love of notoriety — and waged, not against our lives, but our character.
Σελίδα 44 - We believe that we have most to fear from the organized action upon the consciences and fears of slaveholders themselves; from the insinuations of their dangerous heresies into our schools, our pulpits, and our domestic circles.
Σελίδα 44 - ... on the question of slavery, that the abolitionists can accomplish their object. PREPARATORY TO THIS, they are now laboring to saturate the non-slaveholding States with the belief that slavery is a
Σελίδα 8 - slavery exists now, precisely as it did in the days of the patriarchs. The slave is received into the family of a Turk, in a relation more confidential and respectable than that of an ordinary domestic ; and when liberated, which very often happens, stands upon the same footing with a freeman.
Σελίδα 44 - ... own limits, and that the torrent of pamphlets and tracts which the abolition presses of the north are pouring forth with an inexhaustible copiousness, is arrested the moment it reaches our frontier. Are we to wait until our enemies have built up, by the grossest misrepresentations and falsehoods, a body of public opinion against us, which it would be almost impossible to resist, without separating ourselves from the social system of the rest of the civilized world...
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| Τίτλος | A Discourse on Slavery: Delivered Before the Anti-slavery Society in Littleton, N. H., February 22, 1839, Being the Anniversary of the Birth of Washington |
| Συγγραφέας | William Dexter Wilson |
| Εκδότης | A. McFarland, 1839 |
| Πρωτότυπο από | Πανεπιστήμιο Χάρβαρντ |
| Ψηφιοποιήθηκε στις | 6 Νοεμ. 2006 |
| Μέγεθος | 51 σελίδες |
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