"Liberty."American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839 - 141 pages |
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... South Carolina , concerning seizing colored seamen , was unconstitutional . * * * * Last and lowest , a feculum of beings called overseers - the most abject , degraded , unprincipled race- always cap in hand to the dons who employ them ...
... South Carolina , concerning seizing colored seamen , was unconstitutional . * * * * Last and lowest , a feculum of beings called overseers - the most abject , degraded , unprincipled race- always cap in hand to the dons who employ them ...
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... South . Now that machinery had twenty odd representatives * in that hall , -not elected by the machinery , but by those who owned it . And if he should go back to the history of this government from its foundation , it would be easy to ...
... South . Now that machinery had twenty odd representatives * in that hall , -not elected by the machinery , but by those who owned it . And if he should go back to the history of this government from its foundation , it would be easy to ...
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... South has nothing to fear from a servile war . We do not believe that the abolitionists intend , nor could they , if they would , excite the slaves to insurrection . The dan- ger of this is remote . We believe that we have most to fear ...
... South has nothing to fear from a servile war . We do not believe that the abolitionists intend , nor could they , if they would , excite the slaves to insurrection . The dan- ger of this is remote . We believe that we have most to fear ...
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... south- western states for an additional number of troops , should he consider it necessary . From the Pensacolo Gazette . " About the middle of last month , General Gaines sent an officer of the United States army into Texas to reclaim ...
... south- western states for an additional number of troops , should he consider it necessary . From the Pensacolo Gazette . " About the middle of last month , General Gaines sent an officer of the United States army into Texas to reclaim ...
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... South and the North - the slaveholding and non - slaveholding interests ? Five or more slaveholding states , with their additional representation , thoroughly imbued with southern feeling , thoroughly attached to what the South Carolina ...
... South and the North - the slaveholding and non - slaveholding interests ? Five or more slaveholding states , with their additional representation , thoroughly imbued with southern feeling , thoroughly attached to what the South Carolina ...
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Page 118 - If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
Page 5 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?
Page 118 - ... and cinnamon and odours and ointments, and frankincense and wine and oil, and fine flour and wheat, and beasts and sheep and horses, and chariots and slaves and souls of men.
Page 4 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
Page 97 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 118 - For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another, 14.
Page 76 - Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies; There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.
Page 117 - But we all with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Page 24 - That the senators and representatives of this state, in the congress of the United States...
Page 97 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man?