Slavery: Letters and Speeches, by Horace MannB. B. Mussey & Company, 1853 - 580 halaman |
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... passing hour , and to the pleas- ures it may bring . How infinitely small a part of existence is the present day , or year ! How insignificant its point compared with the ages to come ! What are its huzzas , its ostentation , and its ...
... passing hour , and to the pleas- ures it may bring . How infinitely small a part of existence is the present day , or year ! How insignificant its point compared with the ages to come ! What are its huzzas , its ostentation , and its ...
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... passed an act whose preamble is as fol- lows : " Whereas , in order that the ordinance of the United States , in Congress assembled , for the govern- ment of the territory north - west of the river Ohio , may continue to have full ...
... passed an act whose preamble is as fol- lows : " Whereas , in order that the ordinance of the United States , in Congress assembled , for the govern- ment of the territory north - west of the river Ohio , may continue to have full ...
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... passed a month in which he has not , some part of the time , been stinted for meat . Many a mother is there who will tell you that her children are but scantily sup- plied with bread , and much more scantily with meat , and if they be ...
... passed a month in which he has not , some part of the time , been stinted for meat . Many a mother is there who will tell you that her children are but scantily sup- plied with bread , and much more scantily with meat , and if they be ...
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... passed , but there is no one to execute them . They set forth the benefits and the blessings of education ; but they speak in a vacuum , and no one hears the ap- peal . If a parent wishes to educate his children , he must send them from ...
... passed , but there is no one to execute them . They set forth the benefits and the blessings of education ; but they speak in a vacuum , and no one hears the ap- peal . If a parent wishes to educate his children , he must send them from ...
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... passed , the slaveholding territory may be described as a vast missionary ground , and one so uncomfortable to the faithful ministry of Christ , by reason of its jealous tempers , and the known repugnance it has to many of the first ...
... passed , the slaveholding territory may be described as a vast missionary ground , and one so uncomfortable to the faithful ministry of Christ , by reason of its jealous tempers , and the known repugnance it has to many of the first ...
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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.