Letters to the Hon. William Jay: Being a Reply to His "Inquiry Into the American Colonization and American Anti-slavery Societies."Leavitt, Lord & Company, 1835 - 120 páginas |
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Página 78 - And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought : 39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Página viii - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Página 57 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Página 4 - The American Society for colonizing the Free People of colour of the United States.
Página 66 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 52 - Slavery, in its mildest form, is an evil of the darkest character. Cruel and unnatural in its origin, no plea can be urged in justification of its con•tinuance but the plea of necessity; not that necessity which arises from •our habits, our prejudices, or our wants; but the necessity which requires us to submit to existing evils, rather than substitute by their removal others of a more serious and destructive character. There is no riveted attachment to slavery prevailing extensively, in any...
Página 52 - They must penetrate the human soul, and eradicate the light of reason and the love of liberty. Then, and not till then, when universal darkness and despair prevail, can you perpetuate slavery, and repress all sympathies, and all humane and benevolent efforts among freemen, in behalf of the unhappy portion of our race doomed to bondage.
Página 4 - The object, to which its attention is to be exclusively directed, is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free people of color residing in our country in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem most expedient.
Página 22 - It is taken for granted that in present circumstances, any effort to produce a general and thorough amelioration in the character and condition of the free people of color must be to a great extent fruitless.
Página 39 - THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY. "We have heard of slavery as it exists in Asia, and Africa, and Turkey — we have heard of the feudal slavery under which the peasantry of Europe have groaned from the days of Alaric until now, but excepting only the horrible system of the West India Islands, we have never heard of slavery in any country, ancient or modern, Pagan, Mohammedan, or Christian ! so terrible in its character, as the slavery which exists in these United States.