"Liberty."American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839 - 141 pages |
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... questions which have exercised the ablest writers ; but it is concluded on all hands , that the right to be free can never be alienated - still less is it practicable for one generation to mortgage the privileges of another . " Humane ...
... questions which have exercised the ablest writers ; but it is concluded on all hands , that the right to be free can never be alienated - still less is it practicable for one generation to mortgage the privileges of another . " Humane ...
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... question of slavery , that the aboli- tionists can accomplish their object . Preparatory to this , they are now laboring to saturate the non - slaveholding states with the belief that slavery is a sin against God ; that the " national ...
... question of slavery , that the aboli- tionists can accomplish their object . Preparatory to this , they are now laboring to saturate the non - slaveholding states with the belief that slavery is a sin against God ; that the " national ...
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... question of admitting new states into the Union , with the right of holding slaves . " That the senators and representatives of this state , in the congress of the United States , be , and they are hereby requested to vote against the ...
... question of admitting new states into the Union , with the right of holding slaves . " That the senators and representatives of this state , in the congress of the United States , be , and they are hereby requested to vote against the ...
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... question now at issue , and perhaps even seal the fate of this republic . The senators and representatives of the people will then be called on to sanction the independence of Texas , and also , to provide for its admission , as a ...
... question now at issue , and perhaps even seal the fate of this republic . The senators and representatives of the people will then be called on to sanction the independence of Texas , and also , to provide for its admission , as a ...
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... question more per- plexing namely by what authority you , with freedom , independence , and democracy upon your lips , are waging a war of extermination to forge new manacles and fetters , instead of those which are falling from the ...
... question more per- plexing namely by what authority you , with freedom , independence , and democracy upon your lips , are waging a war of extermination to forge new manacles and fetters , instead of those which are falling from the ...
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Popular passages
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?