The land and slavery question, 1607-1860G. P. Putnam's sons, 1916 |
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... bill for the relief of Protestant dissenters of a clause enabling the Friends to affirm instead of taking an oath in legal procedure . This would have been inserted , but the bill was not presented owing to the sudden proroguing of ...
... bill for the relief of Protestant dissenters of a clause enabling the Friends to affirm instead of taking an oath in legal procedure . This would have been inserted , but the bill was not presented owing to the sudden proroguing of ...
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... bill against him , which was allowed by the courts . Penn spent nine months in Fleet prison rather than pay the unjust claim , and was released only by his friends compounding with the steward . Penn was also failing in health ; so , in ...
... bill against him , which was allowed by the courts . Penn spent nine months in Fleet prison rather than pay the unjust claim , and was released only by his friends compounding with the steward . Penn was also failing in health ; so , in ...
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... bills . No act was of force longer than until the next session of Parliament , unless ratified by the palatine and a quorum of the proprietaries . All laws were to be- come void at the end of a century without formal repeal . To the ...
... bills . No act was of force longer than until the next session of Parliament , unless ratified by the palatine and a quorum of the proprietaries . All laws were to be- come void at the end of a century without formal repeal . To the ...
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... Bill - Debate on the Bill : in Favor , Mr. Johnson , John L. Dawson [ Pa . ] , Galusha A. Grow [ Pa . ] , Joseph R. Chandler [ Pa . ] , Charles Skelton [ N. J. ] , Joseph Cable [ O. ] , and Cyrus L. Dunham [ Ind . ] ; Opposed , Thomas ...
... Bill - Debate on the Bill : in Favor , Mr. Johnson , John L. Dawson [ Pa . ] , Galusha A. Grow [ Pa . ] , Joseph R. Chandler [ Pa . ] , Charles Skelton [ N. J. ] , Joseph Cable [ O. ] , and Cyrus L. Dunham [ Ind . ] ; Opposed , Thomas ...
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... bills for the reform of the grants of public lands . These advocated : ( 1 ) a preemption right to actual settlers ; ( 2 ) a periodic reduction according to the time the land had been in the market , in order to make the prices ...
... bills for the reform of the grants of public lands . These advocated : ( 1 ) a preemption right to actual settlers ; ( 2 ) a periodic reduction according to the time the land had been in the market , in order to make the prices ...
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Página 370 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNTRY, THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS...
Página 4 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Página 373 - ... such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong, vain as the search for a man who should be neither a living man nor a dead man ; such as a policy of "don't care...
Página 318 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Página 1 - Company (no date or pub ijsher's name) : ' to be holden of us, our heirs and successors as of the manor of East Greenwich in the county of Kent...
Página 355 - I believe that to have interfered as I have done, as I have always freely admitted I have done, in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments — I submit ; so let it be done, Let me say one word further.
Página 331 - Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Página 373 - Holding, as they do, that slavery is morally right, and socially elevating, they cannot cease to demand a full national recognition of it, as a legal right, and a social blessing. Nor can we justifiably withhold this, on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong.
Página 373 - Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Página 356 - I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.