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... heart is with you in this blessed enterprise of mercy . Most respectfully , Yours in the cause of love , WILLIAM A. ADAIR . Samuel Webb , J. M. Truman , Wm . McKee , Peter Wright , -Committee . PETERBORO , Dec. 26th , 1837 . Messrs . S ...
... heart is with you in this blessed enterprise of mercy . Most respectfully , Yours in the cause of love , WILLIAM A. ADAIR . Samuel Webb , J. M. Truman , Wm . McKee , Peter Wright , -Committee . PETERBORO , Dec. 26th , 1837 . Messrs . S ...
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... heart exacts the fulfilment of the cruel bond , let him take the pound of flesh , but not one drop of blood . This we must yield to existing laws , not to our sense of justice . I can never acknowledge the right of slavery . I will bow ...
... heart exacts the fulfilment of the cruel bond , let him take the pound of flesh , but not one drop of blood . This we must yield to existing laws , not to our sense of justice . I can never acknowledge the right of slavery . I will bow ...
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... heart " Far , far more precious , dear , than life . " The Liberalia were certain festivals or games of Rome , wherein slaves were permitted to speak with freedom ; and all men temporarily assumed , at least , the appearance of ...
... heart " Far , far more precious , dear , than life . " The Liberalia were certain festivals or games of Rome , wherein slaves were permitted to speak with freedom ; and all men temporarily assumed , at least , the appearance of ...
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... heart of man , than qualified slavery , when suffered by those who are surrounded by all the delights and indulgences of rational liberty . This is like adding the torments of Tantalus to those of Ixion . The enjoyments of human life ...
... heart of man , than qualified slavery , when suffered by those who are surrounded by all the delights and indulgences of rational liberty . This is like adding the torments of Tantalus to those of Ixion . The enjoyments of human life ...
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... heart or the mind of man , while it certainly increases his sources of gratification , so long as he walks freely and erectly in the likeness of his Creator , serves only to aggravate his sufferings , when reduced below his natural ...
... heart or the mind of man , while it certainly increases his sources of gratification , so long as he walks freely and erectly in the likeness of his Creator , serves only to aggravate his sufferings , when reduced below his natural ...
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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...