Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States of North America: From April, 1833, to October, 1834, Volume 2 |
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... favor of the ballot - a mode of voting very general , if not universal , throughout the middle and eastern States . In Rhode Island it is customary , I have been told , for the voter to write his name on the billet , and thus defeat the ...
... favor of the ballot - a mode of voting very general , if not universal , throughout the middle and eastern States . In Rhode Island it is customary , I have been told , for the voter to write his name on the billet , and thus defeat the ...
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... 250 dollars in freehold estate , are entitled to the elective franchise . It is singular , that , where no political privileges are connected with property , an exception should be made in favor of CHAP . XIII . ] ALBANY REGENCY .
... 250 dollars in freehold estate , are entitled to the elective franchise . It is singular , that , where no political privileges are connected with property , an exception should be made in favor of CHAP . XIII . ] ALBANY REGENCY .
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... favor of those with whom vice , not virtue , is supposed to be hereditary ; and that the parchment on which the pedigree is written is the skin of the claimant . Equality of civil rights is granted where equality of social rights is ...
... favor of those with whom vice , not virtue , is supposed to be hereditary ; and that the parchment on which the pedigree is written is the skin of the claimant . Equality of civil rights is granted where equality of social rights is ...
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... of emancipation to his slave ; and as no such plea could be urged in favor of Damon Jones , ( that was the name of the man , ) these successive sales were null and void ; and the buyers had been most CHAP . XIII . ] 17 FUGITIVE SLAVES .
... of emancipation to his slave ; and as no such plea could be urged in favor of Damon Jones , ( that was the name of the man , ) these successive sales were null and void ; and the buyers had been most CHAP . XIII . ] 17 FUGITIVE SLAVES .
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... favor of humanity - he was taught to feel that it is sometimes impolitic to interfere against it . 66 The decision of the court was unfavorable to the three prisoners . The Virginian was to be taken back for the purpose of being ...
... favor of humanity - he was taught to feel that it is sometimes impolitic to interfere against it . 66 The decision of the court was unfavorable to the three prisoners . The Virginian was to be taken back for the purpose of being ...
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Page 185 - 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.
Page 126 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 186 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them : thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Page 235 - I give them their freedom; and I humbly and earnestly request of the legislature of Virginia a confirmation of the bequest of freedom to these servants, with permission to remain in this State, where their families and connections are, as an additional instance of the favor, of which I have received so many other manifestations in the course of my life, and for which I now give them my last, solemn, and dutiful...
Page 137 - Their views upon that point have been submitted to the people of the United States ; and the counsels by which your conduct is now directed are the result of the judgment expressed by the only earthly tribunal to which the late administration was amenable for its acts.
Page 280 - EXTREMUM hunc, Arethusa, mihi concede laborem. pauca meo Gallo, sed quae legat ipsa Lycoris, carmina sunt dicenda : neget quis carmina Gallo ? sic tibi, cum fluctus subterlabere Sicanos, Doris amara suam non intermisceat undam, incipe ; sollicitos Galli dicamus amores, dum tenera attondent simae virgulta capellae.
Page 80 - Whereas the enemies of the United States have endeavored, by every artifice in their power, to possess the Indians in general with an opinion, that it is the design of the States aforesaid, to extirpate the Indians and take possession of their country: to obviate such false...
Page 185 - 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 restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 76 - Many of the tribes have already made great progress in the arts of civilized life. This desirable result has been brought about by the humane and persevering policy of the Government, and particularly by means of the appropriation for the civilization of the Indians. There have been established under the provisions of this act...
Page iii - ... government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be signal, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion. As far as experience may show errors in our establishments, we are bound to correct them; and if any practices exist...