"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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... evil ) our matchless system . * * Lafayette was consistent . Having bravely and disinterestedly aided in vindi- cating our rights , he did not incur the reproach of hypocrisy , by turning and tramp- ling on the rights of others . For ...
... evil ) our matchless system . * * Lafayette was consistent . Having bravely and disinterestedly aided in vindi- cating our rights , he did not incur the reproach of hypocrisy , by turning and tramp- ling on the rights of others . For ...
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... evil on us . And you will be supported by the religious precept , " be not weary in well doing . " That your success may be as speedy and complete , as it will be honorable and immortal consolation to yourself , I shall as fervently and ...
... evil on us . And you will be supported by the religious precept , " be not weary in well doing . " That your success may be as speedy and complete , as it will be honorable and immortal consolation to yourself , I shall as fervently and ...
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... evil . Every thing we can do , is to improve it , if it happens in our day ; if not , let us transmit to our descendants , together with our slaves , a pity for their unhappy lot , and our abhor- rence for slavery . If we cannot reduce ...
... evil . Every thing we can do , is to improve it , if it happens in our day ; if not , let us transmit to our descendants , together with our slaves , a pity for their unhappy lot , and our abhor- rence for slavery . If we cannot reduce ...
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... evil in every free community . With much to hope for by a change , and nothing to lose , they have no fears of consequences . Despoiled of their rights by the acts of government and its citizens , they have no checks of pity , or of ...
... evil in every free community . With much to hope for by a change , and nothing to lose , they have no fears of consequences . Despoiled of their rights by the acts of government and its citizens , they have no checks of pity , or of ...
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... evil much to be deplored , and that every constitutional barrier should be interposed to prevent its further extension ; and that the constitution of the United States clearly gives congress the right to require new states , not ...
... evil much to be deplored , and that every constitutional barrier should be interposed to prevent its further extension ; and that the constitution of the United States clearly gives congress the right to require new states , not ...
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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.