 | Fritz Hirschfeld - 1997 - 286 páginas
...compassionate document gave fresh hope to the antislavery bloc in Congress. In part it reads: That mankind are all formed by the same Almighty Being, alike objects...creed of Americans fully coincides with the position. Your memorialists, particularly engaged in attending to the distresses arising from slavery, believe... | |
 | Jacqueline Jones Royster - 2000 - 356 páginas
...from the society in which he appealed for the nation to live up to its principles: That mankind are all formed by the same Almighty Being, alike objects...of Americans fully coincides with the position.... Your memorialists, particularly engaged in attending to the distress arising from slavery, believe... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2005 - 576 páginas
...society, Franklin presented a formal abolition petition to Congress in February 1790. "Mankind are all formed by the same Almighty Being, alike objects...equally designed for the enjoyment of happiness," it declared. The duty of Congress was to secure "the blessings of liberty to the People of the United... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2004 - 628 páginas
...society, Franklin presented a formal abolition petition to Congress in February 1790. "Mankind are all formed by the same Almighty Being, alike objects...equally designed for the enjoyment of happiness," it declared. The duty of Congress was to secure "the blessings of liberty to the People of the United... | |
 | Gordon S. Wood - 2004 - 330 páginas
...people." After all, said the petition, "Mankind are all formed by the same Almighty Being, alike the objects of his care, and equally designed for the enjoyment of happiness."" As much as these views seem commonsensical to us today, they were not so in Franklin's day. The petition... | |
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That mankind are all formed by the same Almighty Being, alike objects of his care, and equally designed for the enjoyment of happiness, the Christian religion teaches us to believe, and the political creed of Americans fully coincides with the position. 
