The Pro-Slavery Argument; As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern States, Containing the Several Essays, on the Subject, of ChScholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1852 - 496 էջ |
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... character and effects - it is denounced as the most intolerable of social and political evils . Its existence , and every hour of its continu- ance , is regarded as the crime of the communities in which it is found . Even by those in ...
... character and effects - it is denounced as the most intolerable of social and political evils . Its existence , and every hour of its continu- ance , is regarded as the crime of the communities in which it is found . Even by those in ...
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... character , our safety , and the safety o all that is dear to us , let us enlighten our minds and fortify our hearts to defend them . It is a somewhat singular evidence of the indisposition o the rest of the world to hear anything more ...
... character , our safety , and the safety o all that is dear to us , let us enlighten our minds and fortify our hearts to defend them . It is a somewhat singular evidence of the indisposition o the rest of the world to hear anything more ...
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... character , they are not less entitled to the rights of humanity ; that if they are happy in their condition , it affords but the stronger evidence of their degra- dation , and renders them still more objects of commiseration . They ...
... character , they are not less entitled to the rights of humanity ; that if they are happy in their condition , it affords but the stronger evidence of their degra- dation , and renders them still more objects of commiseration . They ...
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... characters , by elaborate cultiva- tion , may be taught to prefer death to slavery , but it would be folly to prescribe this as a duty to the mass of mankind . If any rational meaning can be attributed to the sentence I have quoted , it ...
... characters , by elaborate cultiva- tion , may be taught to prefer death to slavery , but it would be folly to prescribe this as a duty to the mass of mankind . If any rational meaning can be attributed to the sentence I have quoted , it ...
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... character , could be dan- gerous to the security of society , society would have the per- fect right to punish it . If the possession of a black skin would be otherwise dangerous to society , society has the same right to protect itself ...
... character , could be dan- gerous to the security of society , society would have the per- fect right to punish it . If the possession of a black skin would be otherwise dangerous to society , society has the same right to protect itself ...
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Էջ 156 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession.
Էջ 105 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Էջ 156 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen for ever : but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Էջ 167 - There is a land, of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven, o'er all the world beside...
Էջ 107 - Servants obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God...
Էջ 413 - And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you today : for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Էջ 158 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Էջ 455 - The parent storms ; the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Էջ 436 - But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Էջ 459 - Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling, and inexperienced in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence...