Slavery: Letters and SpeechesB.B. Mussey & Company, 1851 - 564 páginas Tharp collection. |
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... southern or slave states would be debarred from enjoying their share of the common property of the Union . I meet this claim with a counter - claim . If , on the one hand , the consecration of this soil to freedom will exclude the ...
... southern or slave states would be debarred from enjoying their share of the common property of the Union . I meet this claim with a counter - claim . If , on the one hand , the consecration of this soil to freedom will exclude the ...
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... southern friends , who kneel so devoutly at his shrine , could be animated by that lofty spirit of freedom , that love for the rights of man , which alone can make their acts of devotion sacred . -- But what is most material to be ...
... southern friends , who kneel so devoutly at his shrine , could be animated by that lofty spirit of freedom , that love for the rights of man , which alone can make their acts of devotion sacred . -- But what is most material to be ...
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... and colleges of the south contain 223,416 volumes ; those of the north , 593,897 volumes . The libraries of southern theological schools , 22,800 ; those of northern , 102,080 . Look into Silliman's Journal , or the volumes of the 52.
... and colleges of the south contain 223,416 volumes ; those of the north , 593,897 volumes . The libraries of southern theological schools , 22,800 ; those of northern , 102,080 . Look into Silliman's Journal , or the volumes of the 52.
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... Southern States are all within what may be called " the latitudes of genius ; " for there is a small belt around the globe , comprising but a few degrees of lat- itude , which has produced all the distinguished men who have ever lived ...
... Southern States are all within what may be called " the latitudes of genius ; " for there is a small belt around the globe , comprising but a few degrees of lat- itude , which has produced all the distinguished men who have ever lived ...
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... southern horizon are the progeny of these progenitors , doomed race , fated and suffering from sire to son . But the enormities of the mother country did not pass without remonstrance . Many of the colonies expos- tulated against , and ...
... southern horizon are the progeny of these progenitors , doomed race , fated and suffering from sire to son . But the enormities of the mother country did not pass without remonstrance . Many of the colonies expos- tulated against , and ...
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Página 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.
Página 393 - And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching, throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.