"Liberty": The Image and Superscription on Every Coin Issued by the United States of AmericaAmerican Anti-Slavery Society, 1837 - 231 páginas Extracts on slavery. |
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... ence , when the talons of power were unclasped for our destruction ? Have you no apprehension left , that when the votaries of freedom sacrifice also at the gloomy altars of slavery , they will at length be- come apostates from the ...
... ence , when the talons of power were unclasped for our destruction ? Have you no apprehension left , that when the votaries of freedom sacrifice also at the gloomy altars of slavery , they will at length be- come apostates from the ...
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... ence , he draws his own from them ; and , according to Rabelais , a king does not subsist upon a little . Do subjects , therefore , .give their persons on condition that the prince will condescend to accept their property also ? If each ...
... ence , he draws his own from them ; and , according to Rabelais , a king does not subsist upon a little . Do subjects , therefore , .give their persons on condition that the prince will condescend to accept their property also ? If each ...
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... ence ? Was this the language of the RANK AND DEGREE ; seeing men buyers are ex - language of our last General Confer- say , I pay honestly for my goods ; and 1 am not concerned to know how they are come by . ' Georgia and Baltimore ...
... ence ? Was this the language of the RANK AND DEGREE ; seeing men buyers are ex - language of our last General Confer- say , I pay honestly for my goods ; and 1 am not concerned to know how they are come by . ' Georgia and Baltimore ...
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... ence as to deny this . Some of her tracts are to be considered in the light ablest ministers , too , have written Bible of an apology for slavery or not - and arguments to justify slave holders ! - Will you deny this ? Here is the evi ...
... ence as to deny this . Some of her tracts are to be considered in the light ablest ministers , too , have written Bible of an apology for slavery or not - and arguments to justify slave holders ! - Will you deny this ? Here is the evi ...
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... ence of our church is in favor of sla - case , if the present difficulties should , by possi- bility , be amicably adjusted in 1840 , which is very , I will mention the fact , that a much to be desired , then no injury would fol- low to ...
... ence of our church is in favor of sla - case , if the present difficulties should , by possi- bility , be amicably adjusted in 1840 , which is very , I will mention the fact , that a much to be desired , then no injury would fol- low to ...
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Página 104 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Página 191 - 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.
Página 9 - 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?
Página 196 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Página 226 - Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy ; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Página 9 - ... magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be, that Providence has J _ not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? . ~ The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which / ennobles human nature. Alas ! is it rendered impossible...
Página 226 - 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.
Página 227 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Página 13 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Página 222 - He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.