A Refutation of the Calumnies Circulated Against the Southern and Western States, Respecting the Institution and Existence of Slavery Among Them |
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... executed , the subject of his observations is of such momentous import as to arrest the attention of the most careless and indifferent . It embraces , in its various aspects , ques- tions of the most profound and vital importance ...
... executed , the subject of his observations is of such momentous import as to arrest the attention of the most careless and indifferent . It embraces , in its various aspects , ques- tions of the most profound and vital importance ...
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... executed , as from that of the hundreds who either knew of or were engaged in the plot , was to have been conducted with a ferocious barbarity , at which humanity shudders and turns pale ; those , we repeat , who are acquainted with the ...
... executed , as from that of the hundreds who either knew of or were engaged in the plot , was to have been conducted with a ferocious barbarity , at which humanity shudders and turns pale ; those , we repeat , who are acquainted with the ...
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... execution of our laws . In many of the Northern and Eastern prints , there has been a great deal of that whining , canting , sickly kind of humanity , which is as disgraceful to the character of those journals , as it is contemptible in ...
... execution of our laws . In many of the Northern and Eastern prints , there has been a great deal of that whining , canting , sickly kind of humanity , which is as disgraceful to the character of those journals , as it is contemptible in ...
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... executed , they may remain more exem- ' plary , than any punishment hitherto hath been in- ' flicted on them ; and also that masters of negroes , ' may be obliged to provide and allow their negroes ' sufficient dyet and cloathing , and ...
... executed , they may remain more exem- ' plary , than any punishment hitherto hath been in- ' flicted on them ; and also that masters of negroes , ' may be obliged to provide and allow their negroes ' sufficient dyet and cloathing , and ...
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... of that year , a conspiracy was detected , the plan of which had been long secretly agitated . Two methods had been proposed in order to carry it into execution ; one , that the ne roes in each family , in the dead of the 68.
... of that year , a conspiracy was detected , the plan of which had been long secretly agitated . Two methods had been proposed in order to carry it into execution ; one , that the ne roes in each family , in the dead of the 68.
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Page 42 - 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.
Page 43 - Perhaps too a difference of structure in the pulmonary apparatus, which a late ingenious ' experimentalist has discovered to be the principal regulator of animal heat, may have disabled them from extricating, in the act of inspiration, so much of that fluid from the outer air, or obliged them in expiration, to part with more of it.
Page 60 - Their health physical and moral is alike destroyed; they die of diseases induced by unremitting task work, by confinement in the impure atmosphere of crowded rooms, by the particles of metallic or vegetable dust which they are continually inhaling; or they live to grow up without decency, without comfort, and without hope, without morals, without religion, and without shame, and bring forth slaves like themselves to tread in the same path of misery.
Page 42 - Hampshire certainly does, as he has referred to that sacred volume for his creed. It might satisfy the scruples of Mr. Kenrick, and the divines who appear so shocked at seeing a father dispose of his slaves to his children by "his last will and testament, as they will perceive the scriptures direct them to go as an inheritance. The honorable gentleman says, he speaks not only his own. but the universal sentiments of all those he represents. If he and his friends of New Hampshire have not turned aside...
Page 41 - ... any in New England, and as profound a scholar, in a book of great celebrity called his Prophecies, in which he endeavors to prove the divinity of the Bible by the many prophecies that are now fulfilling, says that this very African race are the descendants of Canaan, and have been the slaves of many nations, and are still expiating in bondage the curse upon themselves and their progenitors. But it may be said that this is only an opinion of Mr. Newton, and that we 237 240 SENATE.
Page 22 - States where it is permitted, and every where out of them, regret its existence among us, and seek for the means of limiting and of mitigating it. The first introduction of slaves is not imputable to the present generation, nor even to their ancestors. Before the year 1642, the trade and ports of the colonies were open to foreigners equally as those of the mother country ; and as early as...
Page 11 - It is an acknowledged fact, that some of these religious itinerants, these apostolic vagabondsr after receiving the charities which the philanthropy and open-hearted generosity of our people have bestowed, have, by the means of Tracts and other modes of instruction, all professedly religious in their character, excited among our Negroes such a spirit of dissatisfaction and revolt, as has, in the end, brought down upon them the vengeance of offended humanity, and given to the gallows and to exile,...
Page 41 - But it may be said that this is only an opinion of Mr. Newton, and that we can see no reason in it. Mr. S. said, if the gentleman was unwilling to believe Mr. Newton, he would surely believe Moses and the prophets. And if the Senate would indulge him, he would show from the Bible itself that slavery was permitted by Divine authority; and for that purpose he would open to the xxvth chapter of Leviticus, and read as follows: "And the Lord spake unto Moses in Mount Sinai, saying, Speak unto the children...
Page 22 - ... 1620, a few years only after the planting of the colony of Virginia, and the same year in which the first settlement was made in the old colony of Plymouth, a cargo of negroes was brought into, and sold as slaves in Virginia, by a foreign ship.* From this beginning, the importation of slaves was continued for nearly two centuries. To her honor, Virginia, while a colony, opposed the importation of slaves, and was the first State to prohibit the same, by a law passed for this purpose in 1778, thirty...