The Works of Charles Sumner, Zväzok 5Lee and Shepard, 1872 |
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Strana 14
... course I begin with the assumption of fact , which must be treated at length . It was the often - quoted remark of John Wesley , who knew well how to use words , as also how to touch hearts , that Slavery is " the sum of all villanies ...
... course I begin with the assumption of fact , which must be treated at length . It was the often - quoted remark of John Wesley , who knew well how to use words , as also how to touch hearts , that Slavery is " the sum of all villanies ...
Strana 19
... course , in these elements , is the impossi- ble pretension , where Barbarism is lost in impiety , by which man claims property in man . Against such blas- phemy the argument is brief . According to the Law of Nature , written by the ...
... course , in these elements , is the impossi- ble pretension , where Barbarism is lost in impiety , by which man claims property in man . Against such blas- phemy the argument is brief . According to the Law of Nature , written by the ...
Strana 22
... course the slave cannot be allowed to read : for his soul would then expand in larger air , while he saw the glory of the North Star , and also the helping truth , that God , who made iron , never made a slave ; for he would then become ...
... course the slave cannot be allowed to read : for his soul would then expand in larger air , while he saw the glory of the North Star , and also the helping truth , that God , who made iron , never made a slave ; for he would then become ...
Strana 23
... Course of Time , Book VIII . 632-634 . 2 Clarke , E. D. , Travels in Europe , Asia , and Africa , ( London , 1816 , ) Vol . I. pp . 72 , 73 . of husband and wife ; thirdly , abrogating the parental THE BARBARISM OF SLAVERY . 23.
... Course of Time , Book VIII . 632-634 . 2 Clarke , E. D. , Travels in Europe , Asia , and Africa , ( London , 1816 , ) Vol . I. pp . 72 , 73 . of husband and wife ; thirdly , abrogating the parental THE BARBARISM OF SLAVERY . 23.
Strana 30
... hands with honest toil . The Slave - Master of course declines work , and his pernicious example infects all others . With impi- ous resolve , they would reverse the Almighty decree appointing 30 THE BARBARISM OF SLAVERY .
... hands with honest toil . The Slave - Master of course declines work , and his pernicious example infects all others . With impi- ous resolve , they would reverse the Almighty decree appointing 30 THE BARBARISM OF SLAVERY .
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Strana 52 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, — the most unremitting despotism on the one part and degrading submissions on the other.
Strana 278 - ... that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers in the Church and Commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors, — "It is therefore ordered, That every township in. this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them •to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Strana 500 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country ; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired ;...
Strana 112 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only...
Strana 218 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
Strana 251 - We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Strana 339 - Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Strana 226 - God that made the world and all things therein * * * hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Strana 80 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Strana 123 - ... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.