Methodism in America: With the Personal Narrative of the Author, During a Tour Through a Part of the United States and Canada |
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... slaves ? -or this American , thus addressing the people who supply the hands , the sinews , the labour , ( though he may furnish the genius , ) which are creating his fortune ? Besides the extensive business transacted at this ...
... slaves ? -or this American , thus addressing the people who supply the hands , the sinews , the labour , ( though he may furnish the genius , ) which are creating his fortune ? Besides the extensive business transacted at this ...
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... slave - holding states ; and from the specimen given in this and other places visited , it is pretty apparent , that ... slaves ? These poor creatures are the abso- lute property of the master , obedient to his behests , the panderers to ...
... slave - holding states ; and from the specimen given in this and other places visited , it is pretty apparent , that ... slaves ? These poor creatures are the abso- lute property of the master , obedient to his behests , the panderers to ...
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... slaves . What is all this , if not feudal aristocracy , in its most revolting features ? The lords of the European ... slave - holder . Probably the rule of the Roman Catholic church , which at first , and for many subsequent years , was ...
... slaves . What is all this , if not feudal aristocracy , in its most revolting features ? The lords of the European ... slave - holder . Probably the rule of the Roman Catholic church , which at first , and for many subsequent years , was ...
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... slavery on the soil itself ; endeavouring to prove that Maryland and Vir- ginia were worn out by this kind of cultivation . Whether it is so or not , I cannot pretend to determine ; but the whole country where these slaves were at work ...
... slavery on the soil itself ; endeavouring to prove that Maryland and Vir- ginia were worn out by this kind of cultivation . Whether it is so or not , I cannot pretend to determine ; but the whole country where these slaves were at work ...
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... slavery as much as it is possible to be abhorred in this country ; and many of them are sanguine as to the possibility of making this a state question , and in a short time electing an anti- slavery president . Their Methodism is a ...
... slavery as much as it is possible to be abhorred in this country ; and many of them are sanguine as to the possibility of making this a state question , and in a short time electing an anti- slavery president . Their Methodism is a ...
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Page 256 - In the name of God, amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 256 - Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 426 - Resolved, That it is the sense of this General Conference that he desist from the exercise of this office so long as this impediment remains.
Page 393 - Does this conference acknowledge that slavery is contrary to the laws of God, man, and nature, and hurtful to society ; contrary to the dictates of conscience and pure religion, and doing that which we would not that others should do to us and ours?
Page 357 - At the end of the half -hour they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer of a world, had fallen asleep on the margin of the stream that bears his name. Near its mouth the canoe-men dug his grave in the sand. Ever after, the forest rangers, if in danger on Lake Michigan, would invoke his name. The people of the West will build his monument.
Page 256 - God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid, and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony ; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 210 - Bishop. I shudder, I start at the very thought ! Men may call me a knave, or a fool, a rascal, a scoundrel, and I am content; but they shall never, by my consent, call me a Bishop ! For my sake, for God's sake, for Christ's sake, put a full end to this ! Let the Presbyterians do what they please, but let the Methodists know their calling better.
Page 357 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 178 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Page 237 - They shall not change or alter any part or rule of our government, so as to do away episcopacy, or destroy the plan of our itinerant general superintendency.