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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... democrat ” ; and while , in the halls of Congress , he was threatening to hang John P. Hale on the tallest pine tree ... democratic metropolis , and the slave - trader a peculiar ornament for the Christian Church in the capital of a ...
... democrat ” ; and while , in the halls of Congress , he was threatening to hang John P. Hale on the tallest pine tree ... democratic metropolis , and the slave - trader a peculiar ornament for the Christian Church in the capital of a ...
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Theodore Parker. in his mansion . The slave - trader and the democratic President met together - Slatter and Polk ! fit guest and fitting host ! In all the three million square miles of American land there is no inch of free soil , from ...
Theodore Parker. in his mansion . The slave - trader and the democratic President met together - Slatter and Polk ! fit guest and fitting host ! In all the three million square miles of American land there is no inch of free soil , from ...
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... educated nation in the world , " and yet , in fifteen Democratic States , it is a felony by statute to teach a child to know the three letters that spell " God . " What a spectacle is that ! Nor is that all ; but able men , well 15.
... educated nation in the world , " and yet , in fifteen Democratic States , it is a felony by statute to teach a child to know the three letters that spell " God . " What a spectacle is that ! Nor is that all ; but able men , well 15.
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... Democrats " cease from troubling . " America translates the Bible - I am glad of it , and would give my mite thereto - into a hundred and forty- seven different tongues , and sends missionaries all over the world ; and here at home are ...
... Democrats " cease from troubling . " America translates the Bible - I am glad of it , and would give my mite thereto - into a hundred and forty- seven different tongues , and sends missionaries all over the world ; and here at home are ...
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... ) . The public policy changes in these matters . It never changes in respect to Slavery . Be the Whigs in power , Slavery is Whig ; be the Democrats , it is Democratic . At first , Slavery was an exceptional measure , and 23.
... ) . The public policy changes in these matters . It never changes in respect to Slavery . Be the Whigs in power , Slavery is Whig ; be the Democrats , it is Democratic . At first , Slavery was an exceptional measure , and 23.
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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...