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... Friend , —In pursuance of a unanimous resolution of the Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Hall Association , I return their thanks to thee for thy address upon Temperance , delivered in the late Pennsylvania Hall , on the evening of ...
... Friend , —In pursuance of a unanimous resolution of the Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Hall Association , I return their thanks to thee for thy address upon Temperance , delivered in the late Pennsylvania Hall , on the evening of ...
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... friendship are issuing their disclaimers , when our " prudent friends " are giving unasked counsel , and advice suggested by their fears , it is cheering to receive such letters as the following , from DAVID PAUL BROWN , the eloquent ...
... friendship are issuing their disclaimers , when our " prudent friends " are giving unasked counsel , and advice suggested by their fears , it is cheering to receive such letters as the following , from DAVID PAUL BROWN , the eloquent ...
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... , and accept for yourselves and them assurances of my friendship and regard . Very respectfully , FRANCIS JAMES . Messrs . Samuel Webb and Wm . H. Scott , -Committee . NORTH EAST , ( Pa . ) Feb. 5th , OPENING OF THE HALL. ...
... , and accept for yourselves and them assurances of my friendship and regard . Very respectfully , FRANCIS JAMES . Messrs . Samuel Webb and Wm . H. Scott , -Committee . NORTH EAST , ( Pa . ) Feb. 5th , OPENING OF THE HALL. ...
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... Friends and Fellow Laborers , -Yours of the 26th ultimo , has just come to hand . Please accept my thanks , and tender them to the Asso- ciation for which you act , for the kind invitation you have given me to be present at the opening ...
... Friends and Fellow Laborers , -Yours of the 26th ultimo , has just come to hand . Please accept my thanks , and tender them to the Asso- ciation for which you act , for the kind invitation you have given me to be present at the opening ...
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... friend , FREDERICK W. GRAVES . Samuel Webb , J. M. Truman , Wm . McKee , Peter Wright , -Committee . Messrs . S. Webb and Wm . H. Scott : NEW YORK , January 3d , 1838 . My Dear Friends , —I thank you for your kind letter inviting me ...
... friend , FREDERICK W. GRAVES . Samuel Webb , J. M. Truman , Wm . McKee , Peter Wright , -Committee . Messrs . S. Webb and Wm . H. Scott : NEW YORK , January 3d , 1838 . My Dear Friends , —I thank you for your kind letter inviting me ...
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Page 78 - LET the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, " There is a man child conceived." Let that day be darkness ; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Page 58 - Congress, shall never be construed to authorize the passage of any law, and that no law shall be passed in conformity thereto, by which any citizen of either of the States in this Union shall be excluded from the enjoyment of any of the privileges and immunities to which such citizen is entitled under the Constitution of the United States...
Page 180 - The citizens have a right in a peaceable manner to assemble together for their common good, and to apply to those invested with the powers of government for redress of grievances or other proper purposes by petition, address, or remonstrance.
Page 22 - Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page 126 - ... and a certain beggar named Lazarus was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table ; yea, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
Page 79 - Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it...
Page 154 - Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart : thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him.
Page 58 - To prohibit the introduction of any slave, or the offspring of any slave, who heretofore may have been, or who hereafter may be, imported from any foreign country into the United States, or any Territory thereof, in contravention of any existing statute of the United States; and, 4.
Page 72 - caution,' and ' prudence,' and 'judiciousness.' Sir, I hare learned to hate those words. Whenever we attempt to imitate our great Exemplar, and press the truth of God, in all its plainness, upon the conscience, why, we are very imprudent ; because, forsooth, a great excitement will ensue. Sir, slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.
Page 125 - Oh ! tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon...