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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... person whose heart swells with humanity and love , ad- dress the higher sentiments and appeal to the consciences of men in favor of the oppressed . He will arouse them from the slumber into which the apologist for slavery would rock ...
... person whose heart swells with humanity and love , ad- dress the higher sentiments and appeal to the consciences of men in favor of the oppressed . He will arouse them from the slumber into which the apologist for slavery would rock ...
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... persons to supply the Spanish islands with slaves . But even now there were some who opposed the slave - trade as unjust and iniquitous . Among them was Soto , the confessor of Charles V. Cardinal Ximines , whatever he might have ...
... persons to supply the Spanish islands with slaves . But even now there were some who opposed the slave - trade as unjust and iniquitous . Among them was Soto , the confessor of Charles V. Cardinal Ximines , whatever he might have ...
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... persons . " These six words , ' three fifths of all other persons , ' refer doubtless to the slaves . But if one did not know that we had slaves , from another source , he could not infer from this language that we had any . The next ...
... persons . " These six words , ' three fifths of all other persons , ' refer doubtless to the slaves . But if one did not know that we had slaves , from another source , he could not infer from this language that we had any . The next ...
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... persons , and stands upon the ground , that all men or persons are born free and equal , and that they have certain inherent rights , which no legislation can deprive them of , such as life , liberty and property . If , then , the ...
... persons , and stands upon the ground , that all men or persons are born free and equal , and that they have certain inherent rights , which no legislation can deprive them of , such as life , liberty and property . If , then , the ...
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... person , black or white , who is restrained of his liberty , unless he be kept in prison awaiting a trial , or kept for the execution of the sentence of the court , has a right to the privilege of the habeas corpus writ . Hence any person ...
... person , black or white , who is restrained of his liberty , unless he be kept in prison awaiting a trial , or kept for the execution of the sentence of the court , has a right to the privilege of the habeas corpus writ . Hence any person ...
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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...