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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... live among slaveholders , and it can- not be said of him , as of others , that his mind is warped by interest , or his moral sense blunted by habit and familiarity with abuse . These circumstances , it might be supposed , would have ...
... live among slaveholders , and it can- not be said of him , as of others , that his mind is warped by interest , or his moral sense blunted by habit and familiarity with abuse . These circumstances , it might be supposed , would have ...
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... lives of its members ; it inflicts them for the security of their property , the great essential of civilization ; it inflicts them also for the protection of its political institutions , the forcible attempt to overturn which , has ...
... lives of its members ; it inflicts them for the security of their property , the great essential of civilization ; it inflicts them also for the protection of its political institutions , the forcible attempt to overturn which , has ...
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... lives are to be put in jeopardy , our pro- perty destroyed , and our political institutions overturned or endangered ? If a people had on its borders a tribe of bar- barians , whom no treaties or faith could bind , and by whose attacks ...
... lives are to be put in jeopardy , our pro- perty destroyed , and our political institutions overturned or endangered ? If a people had on its borders a tribe of bar- barians , whom no treaties or faith could bind , and by whose attacks ...
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... live to- gether , and the savage can only be tamed by being enslaved or by having slaves . By enslaving alone could he have pre- served them . * And who shall take upon himself to decide that the more benevolent course , and more ...
... live to- gether , and the savage can only be tamed by being enslaved or by having slaves . By enslaving alone could he have pre- served them . * And who shall take upon himself to decide that the more benevolent course , and more ...
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... lives of individuals . be shortened , the aggregate of existence is increased ; even the various forms of death accelerated by want , familiarized to the contemplation , like death to the soldier on the field of battle , may become ...
... lives of individuals . be shortened , the aggregate of existence is increased ; even the various forms of death accelerated by want , familiarized to the contemplation , like death to the soldier on the field of battle , may become ...
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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...