The Sable Cloud: A Southern Tale, with Northern CommentsTicknor and Fields, 1861 - 275 pages |
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... respect ? Has she not heard that the Supreme Court of the United States has absolved her from all her feelings of humanity ? " The parting ! " Where has she lived not to know how , according to our lecturers , families are parted at the ...
... respect ? Has she not heard that the Supreme Court of the United States has absolved her from all her feelings of humanity ? " The parting ! " Where has she lived not to know how , according to our lecturers , families are parted at the ...
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... respecting all who wh to extend slavery into our Territories . On the score of humanity , madam , we have no objection to you and yor husband taking Kate and living in Kansas ; how pe ectly harmless that might seem to many ! for , no do ...
... respecting all who wh to extend slavery into our Territories . On the score of humanity , madam , we have no objection to you and yor husband taking Kate and living in Kansas ; how pe ectly harmless that might seem to many ! for , no do ...
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... respect , and with some hesitancy at any further rudeness of speech . " My dear sir , " said I , " four millions of Southern slaves are this very hour groaning under sorrows which no tongue " " • " You " ( he hesitated a moment , and ...
... respect , and with some hesitancy at any further rudeness of speech . " My dear sir , " said I , " four millions of Southern slaves are this very hour groaning under sorrows which no tongue " " • " You " ( he hesitated a moment , and ...
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... respect . ' Think of bleeding Kansas , even , refusing to incorporate negro - suffrage in her constitution , when left free to follow the dictates of common sense , and a wise self - interest . I sometimes think that that one thing , as ...
... respect . ' Think of bleeding Kansas , even , refusing to incorporate negro - suffrage in her constitution , when left free to follow the dictates of common sense , and a wise self - interest . I sometimes think that that one thing , as ...
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... respect for many of our Northern people has not risen , as I see them from this point of view . They ought not to be so easily duped , so ready to believe evil , so quickly carried away by partial representations , and so unwilling to ...
... respect for many of our Northern people has not risen , as I see them from this point of view . They ought not to be so easily duped , so ready to believe evil , so quickly carried away by partial representations , and so unwilling to ...
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Page 165 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over...
Page 157 - For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Page 220 - For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant. 23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. 24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
Page 206 - With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.
Page 169 - God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth.
Page 94 - For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently ? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Page 214 - Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God : 23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men.
Page 91 - Oh, may I love like thee, In all thy footsteps tread; Thou hatest all iniquity, But nothing thou hast made. "Oh, may I learn the art, With meekness to reprove; To hate the sin with all my heart, But still the sinner love.
Page 159 - I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free...
Page 220 - 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.