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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... never yet been found false to humanity ( applause ) . Mr. Foote was a freeman , a citizen and a " democrat ” ; and while , in the halls of Congress , he was threatening to hang John P. Hale on the tallest pine tree in Mississippi ...
... never yet been found false to humanity ( applause ) . Mr. Foote was a freeman , a citizen and a " democrat ” ; and while , in the halls of Congress , he was threatening to hang John P. Hale on the tallest pine tree in Mississippi ...
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... never surrenders , and was a bold champion of freedom on his own Swiss hills . He comes to America ; he is subdued to the temper of our atmosphere , and , from a great man of science , he becomes the Swiss of Slavery . Southern journals ...
... never surrenders , and was a bold champion of freedom on his own Swiss hills . He comes to America ; he is subdued to the temper of our atmosphere , and , from a great man of science , he becomes the Swiss of Slavery . Southern journals ...
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... never ex- tends the area of bondage , only the area of what in Russia is freedom . What a spectacle ! A country reaching from sea to sea , from the Gulf of tropic heat to Lake Superior's arctic cold , and not an inch of free soil all ...
... never ex- tends the area of bondage , only the area of what in Russia is freedom . What a spectacle ! A country reaching from sea to sea , from the Gulf of tropic heat to Lake Superior's arctic cold , and not an inch of free soil all ...
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... never could get a bale of cotton , nor a box of sugar , nor any- thing to carry from or to any Southern port " ( ap- plause ) . 66 In Politics , almost all leading men have been servants of Slavery . Three " major prophets " of the ...
... never could get a bale of cotton , nor a box of sugar , nor any- thing to carry from or to any Southern port " ( ap- plause ) . 66 In Politics , almost all leading men have been servants of Slavery . Three " major prophets " of the ...
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... never heard of one . The day of office , like the day of bondage , " takes off half a man's manhood , " and the other half it hides ! A little while ago , an Anti - Slavery man in Massachusetts carried a remonstrance against the ...
... never heard of one . The day of office , like the day of bondage , " takes off half a man's manhood , " and the other half it hides ! A little while ago , an Anti - Slavery man in Massachusetts carried a remonstrance against the ...
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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...