Slavery: Letters and SpeechesB.B. Mussey & Company, 1851 - 564 Seiten Tharp collection. |
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... bondage ? Surely the latter is as good an authority as the former . If the gentleman's argument is sound , he is bound to advocate a repeal of the act of 1793. If the gentleman's argument is sound , the free states , instead of ...
... bondage ? Surely the latter is as good an authority as the former . If the gentleman's argument is sound , he is bound to advocate a repeal of the act of 1793. If the gentleman's argument is sound , the free states , instead of ...
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... bondage . The torchlight procession , with its speeches and parade , was one among ten thousand of these incitements . The slaves , there- fore , who went on board the Pearl , might have ob- tained the idea of escape from some other ...
... bondage . The torchlight procession , with its speeches and parade , was one among ten thousand of these incitements . The slaves , there- fore , who went on board the Pearl , might have ob- tained the idea of escape from some other ...
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... bondage . If the prisoner took them , and took them either to sell them or to use them himself , then he took them , in the language of the law , for the felonious purpose of con- verting them to his own use ; and such taking would be ...
... bondage . If the prisoner took them , and took them either to sell them or to use them himself , then he took them , in the language of the law , for the felonious purpose of con- verting them to his own use ; and such taking would be ...
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... bondage was renewed . A trial was had , and through default of the now deceased magistrate's testi- mony , a verdict against them was obtained . But new evidence was discovered , and one of the most respect- able counsellors of this ...
... bondage was renewed . A trial was had , and through default of the now deceased magistrate's testi- mony , a verdict against them was obtained . But new evidence was discovered , and one of the most respect- able counsellors of this ...
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... bondage ? " He ar- rived here on Thursday evening , the 13th of April , and , having no other special business , prepared to sail from here , and did so sail , on Saturday evening , the 15th . Bell's family knew the place where the ...
... bondage ? " He ar- rived here on Thursday evening , the 13th of April , and , having no other special business , prepared to sail from here , and did so sail , on Saturday evening , the 15th . Bell's family knew the place where the ...
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Seite 57 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
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 57 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
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 157 - 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 115 - 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 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 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.