Genius of Universal Emancipation, Volume 13B. Lundy, 1833 - Antislavery movements |
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... eye can carry you , fre- posing scene - the ridges rising regularly one higher quently bedecked with Live Oaks and other ever- greens . The description I have already given will apply , with equal correctness , to Dewitt's colony , only ...
... eye can carry you , fre- posing scene - the ridges rising regularly one higher quently bedecked with Live Oaks and other ever- greens . The description I have already given will apply , with equal correctness , to Dewitt's colony , only ...
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... eyes to the true state of things when the poor , the humble , and the contrite advocates of genuine republican- ism obtain the majority . advantages offered in that republic , over all the her will , by " acts , " relative to the ...
... eyes to the true state of things when the poor , the humble , and the contrite advocates of genuine republican- ism obtain the majority . advantages offered in that republic , over all the her will , by " acts , " relative to the ...
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... eye of God . It is degrading to our character as a nation . It is degrading to our national character not only because it is inconsis- tent with the principles of liberty and equality , by which we profess to be governed , but because ...
... eye of God . It is degrading to our character as a nation . It is degrading to our national character not only because it is inconsis- tent with the principles of liberty and equality , by which we profess to be governed , but because ...
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... Eye Witness . We doubt not but our readers will shudder as we have done , in reading the paragraph be- low , to reflect how often female limbs have been tortured by " this dreadful engine , " as it is most aptly termed by the author ...
... Eye Witness . We doubt not but our readers will shudder as we have done , in reading the paragraph be- low , to reflect how often female limbs have been tortured by " this dreadful engine , " as it is most aptly termed by the author ...
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... eyes of an intelligent community ; and the advocates of that cause are generally and respectfully soli- cited to lend their assistance in extending its B. LUNDY . The labors of philanthropists have accom- plished much , within a few ...
... eyes of an intelligent community ; and the advocates of that cause are generally and respectfully soli- cited to lend their assistance in extending its B. LUNDY . The labors of philanthropists have accom- plished much , within a few ...
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Page 147 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Page 147 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 128 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Page 136 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Page 147 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another...
Page 147 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catehes the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 136 - Shall I not visit for these things ? saith the Lord : shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Page 161 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee : he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 171 - And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them ; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath...
Page 136 - And I will come near to you to judgment; And I will be a swift witness Against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, And against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, The widow, and the fatherless, And that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, Saith the Lord of hosts.