The land and slavery question, 1607-1860G. P. Putnam's sons, 1916 |
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... PETITION [ ABOLITION MOVE- MENT ] 156 VI . THE MEXICAN WAR [ INCLUDING ASSOCIATED DEBATES ON THE OREGON BOUNDARY ] 189 VII . THE WILMOT PROVISO 216 VIII . THE COMPROMISES OF 1850 233 IX . THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW 253 X. - REPEAL OF THE ...
... PETITION [ ABOLITION MOVE- MENT ] 156 VI . THE MEXICAN WAR [ INCLUDING ASSOCIATED DEBATES ON THE OREGON BOUNDARY ] 189 VII . THE WILMOT PROVISO 216 VIII . THE COMPROMISES OF 1850 233 IX . THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW 253 X. - REPEAL OF THE ...
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... Petitions Committed - Debate on Report of Committee : in Favor , Elias Boudinot [ N. J. ] ; Opposed , William L. Smith [ S. C . ] - Sketches of the Debaters - The Fugitive Law of 1793 - Debate in the House in 1797 on Receiving Petition ...
... Petitions Committed - Debate on Report of Committee : in Favor , Elias Boudinot [ N. J. ] ; Opposed , William L. Smith [ S. C . ] - Sketches of the Debaters - The Fugitive Law of 1793 - Debate in the House in 1797 on Receiving Petition ...
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... Petitions against Slavery . That the ques- The truth of this statement was demonstrated by South Carolina continuing intermittently importations of Africans down to the begin- ning of the Civil War . tions connected with slavery had not ...
... Petitions against Slavery . That the ques- The truth of this statement was demonstrated by South Carolina continuing intermittently importations of Africans down to the begin- ning of the Civil War . tions connected with slavery had not ...
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... petitions against the slave trade presented to the First Congress on February 11 , 1790 from societies of Friends ( Quakers ) in Philadelphia and New York . The first memorial protested against the " licentious wickedness " of the ...
... petitions against the slave trade presented to the First Congress on February 11 , 1790 from societies of Friends ( Quakers ) in Philadelphia and New York . The first memorial protested against the " licentious wickedness " of the ...
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... petition for the abolition of slavery . They declared that interference with their " domestic institution " would ... petitions may be mentioned two from the slave State of Virginia , John Page and James Madison . Sketch of Page . John ...
... petition for the abolition of slavery . They declared that interference with their " domestic institution " would ... petitions may be mentioned two from the slave State of Virginia , John Page and James Madison . Sketch of Page . John ...
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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.