Six Years in a Georgia Prison: Narrative of Lewis W. Paine, who Suffered Imprisonment Six Years in Georgia, for the Crime of Aiding the Escape of a Fellow-man from that State, After He Had Fled from Slavery |
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abuse Allen Walker allowed arrived asked Berkshire better brought CHAPTER character charge chattel slavery clothing color common corn cotton course Court crime cruel escape fact Fall River favor feelings flogged Georgia give guilty hands heart hold human imprisonment incest jail jailer Justice keep kind knew labor liberty LIBRARIES live mand marriage Massa master McGreggor mence ment mestizoes Milledgeville mind months moral mulattoes natural law natural right negroes nerally never night oath offense once owner party person plantation pound preach Principal Keeper prison prove punishment RELIGIOUS RESTRAINT Rhode Island Samson seen slave slavery soon soul South staid STANFORD UNIVERSITY stealing stolen suffer Sunday swear swore thing Thomaston thought tion told took trial truth Upson County Warden whip wish word wrong
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Page 52 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar— for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement...
Page 111 - Commentaries remarks that this law of nature, being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Page 120 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 118 - Province, and all their issue and offspring, born or to be born, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, and remain forever hereafter, absolute slaves, and shall follow the condition of the mother...
Page 111 - Those human laws that annex a punishment to it do not at all increase its moral guilt, or superadd any fresh obligation, in foro consdentiae (in the court of conscience), to abstain from its perpetration.
Page 147 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 74 - Time ! the beautifier of the dead, Adorner of the ruin, comforter And only healer when the heart hath bled — Time ! the corrector where our judgments err, The test of truth, love, — sole philosopher, For all beside are sophists, from thy thrift, Which never loses though it doth defer — Time, the avenger ! unto thee I lift My hands, and eyes, and heart, and crave of thee a gift ; CXXXI.
Page 36 - GLORIOUS people vibrated again The lightning of the nations : Liberty From heart to heart, from tower to tower, o'er Spain, Scattering contagious fire into the sky, Gleamed. My soul spurned the chains of its dismay, And, in the rapid plumes of song, Clothed itself, sublime and strong; As...
Page 36 - Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind ; Thy trumpet voice, though broken now and dying, The loudest still the tempest leaves behind; Thy tree hath lost its blossoms, and the rind...
Page 110 - And consequently as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should, in all points, conform to his Maker's will. This will of his Maker is called the law of nature.