Slavery: Letters and SpeechesB. B. Mussey & Company, 1851 - 564 Seiten Tharp collection. |
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... defended by John Adams and Josiah Quincy , illustrious names ! The public breast throbbed with excitement . The sight of butchered countrymen made the blood seethe in the hearts of their fellow - citizens . If there ever - could be a ...
... defended by John Adams and Josiah Quincy , illustrious names ! The public breast throbbed with excitement . The sight of butchered countrymen made the blood seethe in the hearts of their fellow - citizens . If there ever - could be a ...
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... defend ourselves and pride ourselves that he is better off than he would have been in some other country or in some other con- dition . Suppose the Samaritan had bound up a single wound , or relieved a single pang of the bleeding way ...
... defend ourselves and pride ourselves that he is better off than he would have been in some other country or in some other con- dition . Suppose the Samaritan had bound up a single wound , or relieved a single pang of the bleeding way ...
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... defend them . The recital of her offences can fall more sadly upon no ear than upon my own . But it is as true of a state as of an individual , that repentance is the first step towards reformation . Massachusetts has commit- ted errors ...
... defend them . The recital of her offences can fall more sadly upon no ear than upon my own . But it is as true of a state as of an individual , that repentance is the first step towards reformation . Massachusetts has commit- ted errors ...
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... defend what is wrong . I cannot deny , would to God that I could , - that we still have vices and vicious men amongst us . There are those there , as elsewhere , who , if they were to hear for the first time of the River of Life flowing ...
... defend what is wrong . I cannot deny , would to God that I could , - that we still have vices and vicious men amongst us . There are those there , as elsewhere , who , if they were to hear for the first time of the River of Life flowing ...
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... defended for the last fifty years , it can be defended for the next fifty , or the next five hundred years ; it can be defended forever . This idea of perpetual slavery in the very household of a republic of freemen is not to be ...
... defended for the last fifty years , it can be defended for the next fifty , or the next five hundred years ; it can be defended forever . This idea of perpetual slavery in the very household of a republic of freemen is not to be ...
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Seite 393 - And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching, throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
Seite 122 - A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.
Seite 263 - Third, new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution.
Seite 155 - That, in addition to the provisions of the third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States...
Seite 492 - ... mentioned, shall be conclusive of the right of the person or persons in whose favor granted, to remove such fugitive to the State or Territory from which he escaped, and shall prevent all molestation of such person or persons by any process issued by any court, judge, magistrate, or other person whomsoever.
Seite 197 - We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, .... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Seite 263 - States as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri compromise line, shall be admitted into the Union, with or without slavery, as the people of each State asking admission may desire. And in such State or States as shall be formed out of said territory, north of said Missouri compromise line, slavery or involuntary servitude, (except for crime,) shall be prohibited.
Seite 113 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to LIBERTY, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till NATURE herself shall change no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle...
Seite 290 - That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.
Seite 297 - What is a suit? We understand it to be the prosecution, or pursuit, of some claim, demand, or request. In law language, it is the prosecution of some demand in a court of justice. The remedy for every species of wrong is, says Judge Blackstone, "the being put in possession of that right whereof the party injured is deprived.