An Inquiry Into the Character and Tendency of the American Colonization, and American Anti-slavery SocietiesLeavitt, Lord & Company, 1835 - 202 من الصفحات |
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... human beings , are held as chattels by a people professing to acknowledge , that " all men are created equal , and endowed with certain unalienable rights , among which are , life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness : " - they are ...
... human beings , are held as chattels by a people professing to acknowledge , that " all men are created equal , and endowed with certain unalienable rights , among which are , life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness : " - they are ...
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... human insti- tutions , that it is impossible to judge a priori of their effects . Nothing but a long series of experiments , can unfold these effects , and point out the means of counteracting those that are hurtful . " The following ...
... human insti- tutions , that it is impossible to judge a priori of their effects . Nothing but a long series of experiments , can unfold these effects , and point out the means of counteracting those that are hurtful . " The following ...
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... human flesh ; the humble , self - denying Christian , listens to the praises of the Society from the unblushing profligate ; and the friend of human rights and human happiness greets as his fellow- laborer the man whose very ...
... human flesh ; the humble , self - denying Christian , listens to the praises of the Society from the unblushing profligate ; and the friend of human rights and human happiness greets as his fellow- laborer the man whose very ...
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... humanity of banishing him from the country ; while both refrain from all attempts to remove or lessen the oppres- sion . The simplicity of the object of the Society as stated in its constitution , tends in a powerful degree to encourage ...
... humanity of banishing him from the country ; while both refrain from all attempts to remove or lessen the oppres- sion . The simplicity of the object of the Society as stated in its constitution , tends in a powerful degree to encourage ...
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... humanity . Confident that their motives were good , and their object important , they have been too little scrupulous of the means they employed ; and hence the Society has actually exerted a demoralizing influence over its own members ...
... humanity . Confident that their motives were good , and their object important , they have been too little scrupulous of the means they employed ; and hence the Society has actually exerted a demoralizing influence over its own members ...
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الصفحة 53 - ... keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.
الصفحة 98 - Tell me not of rights — talk not of the property of the planter in his slaves. I deny the right — I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our common nature rise in rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to the understanding or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it.
الصفحة 142 - ... character and condition of the people of color, by encouraging their intel-lectual, moral, and religious improvement, and by removing public prejudice, that thus they may, according to their intellectual and moral worth, share an equality with the whites, of civil and religious privileges; but this Society will never, in any way, countenance the oppressed in vindicating their rights by resorting to physical force.
الصفحة 35 - State any school, academy, or other literary institution for the instruction or education of colored persons, who are not inhabitants of this State, or harbor or board, for the purpose of attending or being taught or instructed in any such school, academy, or literary institution...
الصفحة 10 - HIM, unto whom all hearts are open, and from whom no secrets are hid.
الصفحة 163 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the states; it remaining with the several states alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
الصفحة 64 - How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot : Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayer accepted and each wish resign'd; Labour and rest, that equal periods keep ; "Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep;" Desires composed, affections ever even; Tears that delight, and sighs that waft to heaven.
الصفحة 128 - A slave is one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry, and his labor. He can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire anything, but what must belong to his master.
الصفحة 20 - The habits, the feelings, all the prejudices of society — prejudices which neither refinement, nor argument, nor education, nor religion itself, can subdue — mark the people of color, whether bond or free, as the subjects of a degradation inevitable and incurable.
الصفحة 175 - the colony was flourishing under Toussaint — the whites lived happily, and in peace upon their estates, and the negroes continued to work for them.