An Address Delivered by the Rev. Theodore Parker, Before the New York City Anti-Slavery Society, at Its First Anniversary, Held at the Broadway Tabernacle, May 12, 1854American Anti-Slavery Society, 1854 - 46 էջ |
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... Cuba . That is a very serious matter . It has been desired a long time . Lopez , a Spanish fillibuster , undertook it and was legally put to death . I am not an advocate for the garrote , but I think , all things taken into ...
... Cuba . That is a very serious matter . It has been desired a long time . Lopez , a Spanish fillibuster , undertook it and was legally put to death . I am not an advocate for the garrote , but I think , all things taken into ...
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... Cuba is somehow pledged as a sort of collateral security for the Spanish Bonds . I take it for granted that Cuba is not to be bought for many years without the interference of Eng- land , and depend upon it England will not allow it to ...
... Cuba is somehow pledged as a sort of collateral security for the Spanish Bonds . I take it for granted that Cuba is not to be bought for many years without the interference of Eng- land , and depend upon it England will not allow it to ...
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... Cuba . There has been no census since 1842 , I think , when the popu- lation was estimated at a million . I will reckon it now at 1,300,000-700,000 blacks , and 600,000 whites . Of the 700,000 blacks , half a million are slaves and two ...
... Cuba . There has been no census since 1842 , I think , when the popu- lation was estimated at a million . I will reckon it now at 1,300,000-700,000 blacks , and 600,000 whites . Of the 700,000 blacks , half a million are slaves and two ...
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... Cuba in order to establish Slavery there , endangering the interests of England , and the freedom of her coloured citizens , depend upon it Eng- land will not suffer this to be done without herself in- terfering . If she is so deeply ...
... Cuba in order to establish Slavery there , endangering the interests of England , and the freedom of her coloured citizens , depend upon it Eng- land will not suffer this to be done without herself in- terfering . If she is so deeply ...
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... Cuba , a long and ruinous fight is a thing that ought to enter into men's calculations . Now , let such a naval warfare take place , and how will your insurance stock look in New York , Philadelphia and Boston ? How will your merchants ...
... Cuba , a long and ruinous fight is a thing that ought to enter into men's calculations . Now , let such a naval warfare take place , and how will your insurance stock look in New York , Philadelphia and Boston ? How will your merchants ...
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142 NASSAU STREET Abolitionists ADDRESS DELIVERED African African slave trade agriculture Alleghanies AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY applause aspect of America Atlantic slopes bondage BROADWAY TABERNACLE cattle Christian citizens City Anti-Slavery Society commerce continent cotton Cuba democracy despotism dollars doughfaces England fillibuster Four million tuns freedom freemen Fugitive Slave bill Gadsden Treaty Gulf hundred thousand immigrants hundred thousand square land laughter master material groundwork million square miles mills Missouri Compromise Nebraska bill negro newspaper circulation newspapers Norfolk Northern numbers ocean packet ship Pierce pirate political poorer for Slavery President priest property of Virginia quarter millions religion rice rich Richmond rivers Senator Slave Power slave soil slaveholder Southern spectacle square miles stand betwixt sugar THEODORE PARKER thing thousand miles thousand square miles to-day tuns of shipping twenty twenty-four millions United water-power weather inside well-educated Whig worth York City Anti-Slavery
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Էջ 14 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Էջ 14 - O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours ! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.
Էջ 12 - South in this respect, as they would view any other legal and constitutional right; and that the laws to enforce them should be respected and obeyed, not with a reluctance encouraged by abstract opinions as to their propriety in a different state of society, but cheerfully, and according to the decisions of the tribunal to which their exposition belongs.
Էջ 6 - That DECLARATION says that every man is "endowed by his Creator with certain inalienable rights," and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." if these rights are inalienable, they are incompatible with the rights of the victor to take the life of his enemy in war, or to spare his life and make him a slave. If this principle is sound, it reduces to brute force all the rights...
Էջ 22 - ... that, the power of the world. Our true policy is to look to Brazil as the next great slave power, and as the government that is to direct or license the development of the country drained by the Amazon. Instead of courting England, we should look to Brazil and the West Indies. The time will come when a treaty of commerce and alliance with Brazil will give us the control over the Gulf of Mexico and its border countries, together with the islands, and the consequence of this will place African...
Էջ 22 - With Cuba and St. Domingo, we could control the productions of the tropics, and with them the commerce of the world, and with that, the power of the world. Our true policy is to look to Brazil as the next great slave power, and as the government that is to direct or license the development of the country drained by the Amazon. Instead of courting England, we should look to Brazil and the West Indies. The time will come when a treaty of commerce and alliance with Brazil will give us the control over...