Slavery: Letters and Speeches, by Horace MannB. B. Mussey & Company, 1853 - 580 halaman |
Dari dalam buku
Hasil 1-5 dari 51
Halaman iv
... citizen as well as to the man . All great moral questions , though touching them but lightly at first , will come closer and closer home , as long as they live ; growing into greater importance for their posthumous memory than for their ...
... citizen as well as to the man . All great moral questions , though touching them but lightly at first , will come closer and closer home , as long as they live ; growing into greater importance for their posthumous memory than for their ...
Halaman 16
... this very subject of slavery . See the act of 1794 , prohibiting the slave trade from " any port or place " in the United States . Could any citizen of the United States , under this act , have gone into one of our territories 16.
... this very subject of slavery . See the act of 1794 , prohibiting the slave trade from " any port or place " in the United States . Could any citizen of the United States , under this act , have gone into one of our territories 16.
Halaman 52
... citizen . With the exception of New Orleans , ( whose free schools . were commenced and have been presided over by a Massachusetts man , ) and three or four other cities , all the libraries in the public schools of the slave states ...
... citizen . With the exception of New Orleans , ( whose free schools . were commenced and have been presided over by a Massachusetts man , ) and three or four other cities , all the libraries in the public schools of the slave states ...
Halaman 88
... citizen , no charge was ever before preferred . Whatever may have been his errors in regard to the transaction which has brought him before you , he has , in consequence of it , passed through scenes which must move your sympathy . He ...
... citizen , no charge was ever before preferred . Whatever may have been his errors in regard to the transaction which has brought him before you , he has , in consequence of it , passed through scenes which must move your sympathy . He ...
Halaman 102
... citizen in the District , or by some colored acquaintance or friend of theirs , enjoying the means of constant com- munication with them , than that it was done by an entire stranger to them , as the prisoner was ? Can aught be ...
... citizen in the District , or by some colored acquaintance or friend of theirs , enjoying the means of constant com- munication with them , than that it was done by an entire stranger to them , as the prisoner was ? Can aught be ...
Edisi yang lain - Lihat semua
Istilah dan frasa umum
abolish alleged fugitive amendment argument authority bill bondage California Carolina carry citizen civil claim claimant clause commissioner common law Congress constitution crime declared defend deprived District of Columbia doctrine dollars duty escape execution exist favor fellow-citizens Free Soil party freedom freeman Fugitive Slave law gentlemen habeas corpus honor hundred institution judges judgment judicial power jurisdiction jury trial justice legislation MANN Maryland Massachusetts master means ment Mexico millions moral nature never northern offence opinion party passed person political President principles prisoner prohibition question regard secure seized Senate sentiment seventh amendment slave power slaveholders slavery soul South Carolina southern speech square miles statute subject of slavery suppose supreme court territory Texas thing thousand tion trial by jury tribunal Union United Virginia vote Webster Whig Whig party whole words writ wrong
Bagian yang populer
Halaman 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.
Halaman 173 - That no freeman ought to be taken, imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold, liberties, privileges, or franchises, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner destroyed or deprived of his life, liberty, or property, but by the law of the land, X.
Halaman 265 - 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.
Halaman 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...
Halaman 199 - 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.
Halaman 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...
Halaman 265 - 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.
Halaman 29 - That the territory ceded or to be ceded by individual States to the United States...
Halaman 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.
Halaman 60 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.