A Discourse on Slavery: Delivered Before the Anti-slavery Society in Littleton, N. H., February 22, 1839, Being the Anniversary of the Birth of WashingtonA. McFarland, 1839 - 51 σελίδες |
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... hundreds that history affords . The sale of indulgences by the Pope of Rome , which was first introduced as a mere matter of convenience , was at last seized upon by the cupidity of Leo X. as a means of raising money to defray the ...
... hundreds that history affords . The sale of indulgences by the Pope of Rome , which was first introduced as a mere matter of convenience , was at last seized upon by the cupidity of Leo X. as a means of raising money to defray the ...
Σελίδα 14
... hundred native Indians , for slaves . But these Indians were liberated by the humanity of Isabella . The same cupidity , however , that had so eagerly engaged in the African slave - trade , immediately com- menced to take the natives of ...
... hundred native Indians , for slaves . But these Indians were liberated by the humanity of Isabella . The same cupidity , however , that had so eagerly engaged in the African slave - trade , immediately com- menced to take the natives of ...
Σελίδα 24
... HUNDRED AND NINE manumitted slaves to Africa — JUST AS MANY AS WERE BORN IN FIVE DAYS AND A HALF on an average . They had , moreover , ceased operation , so that in 1834 they did not carry one single manumitted slave to Liberia . Judge ...
... HUNDRED AND NINE manumitted slaves to Africa — JUST AS MANY AS WERE BORN IN FIVE DAYS AND A HALF on an average . They had , moreover , ceased operation , so that in 1834 they did not carry one single manumitted slave to Liberia . Judge ...
Σελίδα 25
... hundred thousand slaves in the southern states , and about forty thousand in the northern states . Since that time ... HUNDRED AND SEVENTY - FIVE . Yes , there are one hundred and seventy - five hu- man beings born into slavery in this ...
... hundred thousand slaves in the southern states , and about forty thousand in the northern states . Since that time ... HUNDRED AND SEVENTY - FIVE . Yes , there are one hundred and seventy - five hu- man beings born into slavery in this ...
Σελίδα 28
... hundred and seventy - five every day , and with no one doing any thing to alleviate the condition of the oppressed , or save the country from the precipice over which it seemed to be rushing , -it was , I say , from a view of this state ...
... hundred and seventy - five every day , and with no one doing any thing to alleviate the condition of the oppressed , or save the country from the precipice over which it seemed to be rushing , -it was , I say , from a view of this state ...
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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...