 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1834 - 646 pages
...who, amidst the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groaning in servile subjection ; that you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from...species of traffic in the persons of our fellow-men. BENJ. FRANKLIN, President. PHILADELPHIA, February 3, 1790. Mr. HARTLEY then called up the memorial... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 244 pages
...amidst- the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groaning in servile subjection — that you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from...discouraging every species of traffic in the persons of our fellow men. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, President^ Philadelphia, Feb. 3, 1790. [Federal Gazette, 1790.]* BENJAMIN... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 716 pages
...amidst the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groaning in servile subjection — that you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from...discouraging every species of traffic in the persons of our fellow men, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, President. Philadelphia, Feb. 3, 1790. [Federal Gazette, 1790.] BENJAMIN... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1837 - 486 pages
...surrounding freedom, are groaning in servile subjection ; that you will promote mercy and justice toward this distressed race, and that you will step to the...species of traffic in the persons of our fellow-men.'' (Signed.) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, President. The memorial, from which the above is extracted, was obviously... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Enslaved persons - 1839 - 160 pages
...amidst the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groanmg in servile subjection — that you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from...people — that you will promote mercy and justice toward this distressed race — and that you will step to the very Verge of the power vested in you... | |
 | Slavery - 1843 - 404 pages
...inconsistency from the character of the American people — that you will promote merey and justice toward this distressed race — and that you will step to...of the power vested in you for discouraging every speeies of traffic in the persons of our fellow men. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, President. Philadelphia, Feb.... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy - Slavery - 1843 - 598 pages
...who amidst the generally of surrounding freemen, are groamng in servile subjection — that you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from...character of the American people — that you will promote merey and justice toward this distressed race — and that you will step to the very verge of the power... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1849 - 744 pages
...who, amid the general joy of sur* rounding freemen, are groaning in servile subjection ; that you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from...American people ; that you will promote mercy and justice toward this distressed race ; and that you will step to the very verge of the power vested in you for... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1851 - 716 pages
...who, amid the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groaning in servile subjection; that you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from...American people ; that you will promote mercy and justice toward this distressed race ; and that you will step to the very verge of the power vested in you for... | |
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... that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone, in this land of freedom, are degraded into perpetual bondage, and who, amidst the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groaning in servile subjection... 
