Six Years in a Georgia Prison: Narrative of Lewis W. Paine, who Suffered Imprisonment Six Years in Georgia, for the Crime of Aiding the Escape of a Fellow-man from that State, After He Had Fled from Slaveryauthor, 1851 - 187 Seiten |
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Six Years in a Georgia Prison: Narrative of Lewis W. Paine, Who Suffered ... Lewis W. Paine Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2019 |
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Seite 48 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar— for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement...
Seite 107 - Commentaries remarks that this law of nature, being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Seite 116 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Seite 107 - To instance in the case of murder: this is expressly forbidden by the divine, and demonstrably by the natural law; and, from these prohibitions, arises the true unlawfulness of this crime. Those human laws that annex a punishment to it do not at all increase its moral guilt, or superadd any fresh obligation, in foro consdentiae (in the court of conscience), to abstain from its perpetration.
Seite 114 - Province, and all their issue and offspring, born or to be born, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, and remain forever hereafter, absolute slaves, and shall follow the condition of the mother...
Seite 143 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Seite 32 - GLORIOUS people vibrated again The lightning of the nations : Liberty From heart to heart, from tower to tower, o'er Spain, Scattering contagious fire into the sky, Gleamed. My soul spurned the chains of its dismay, And, in the rapid plumes of song, Clothed itself, sublime and strong; As...
Seite 32 - Yet, Freedom ! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind ; Thy trumpet voice, though broken now and dying, The loudest still the tempest leaves behind ; Thy tree hath lost its blossoms, and the rind...
Seite 106 - And consequently as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should, in all points, conform to his Maker's will. This will of his Maker is called the law of nature.
Seite 136 - Sundays, and other holidays, and their using and carrying wooden swords and other mischievous and dangerous weapons or using or keeping of drums, horns, or other loud instruments which may call together or give sign or notice to one another of their wicked designs and purposes, and that all masters, overseers, and others may be enjoined diligently and carefully to prevent the same.