The Anti-slavery ReporterThe Society, 1863 - Slavery New ser., v. 3-8 (1855-1860) include the 16th-21st annual reports of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society; v. 9-11 (1861-1863) include the 22nd-24th annual reports. |
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... human beings ; that the extinction of Slavery and the Slave - trade will be attained most effectually by the employ- ment of those means which are of a moral , religious , and pacific character ; and that no measures be resorted to by ...
... human beings ; that the extinction of Slavery and the Slave - trade will be attained most effectually by the employ- ment of those means which are of a moral , religious , and pacific character ; and that no measures be resorted to by ...
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... human race . They only forget one thing , " the Avenir continues , " viz . that , long ago , the conscience of the human race , excepting within the limits of the Confederation , has considered Slavery to be a brutal violation of the ...
... human race . They only forget one thing , " the Avenir continues , " viz . that , long ago , the conscience of the human race , excepting within the limits of the Confederation , has considered Slavery to be a brutal violation of the ...
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... humanity had rested their faith , would have failed of the complete success which has hitherto attended it . It is ... human comfort could not be cultivated without the forced , unintelli- gent , and unpaid labour of slaves . Therefore ...
... humanity had rested their faith , would have failed of the complete success which has hitherto attended it . It is ... human comfort could not be cultivated without the forced , unintelli- gent , and unpaid labour of slaves . Therefore ...
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... human beings were sacrificed in honour to , and for the supposed benefit of , a deceased king , and of placing before that powerful chief the superior ad- vantages of peaceful and legitimate com- merce over the atrocious slave - trade ...
... human beings were sacrificed in honour to , and for the supposed benefit of , a deceased king , and of placing before that powerful chief the superior ad- vantages of peaceful and legitimate com- merce over the atrocious slave - trade ...
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... human beings . We ask , then , that , in your New - Year's services , the bondmen of the Southern States may be specially remembered ; and that in every church and chapel throughout Great Britain an aspiration for their speedy release ...
... human beings . We ask , then , that , in your New - Year's services , the bondmen of the Southern States may be specially remembered ; and that in every church and chapel throughout Great Britain an aspiration for their speedy release ...
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Page 131 - He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Page 189 - And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit These things teach and exhort.
Page 15 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always ; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Page 35 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 36 - States are and henceforward shall be free ; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence ; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.
Page 35 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof, shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...
Page 19 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 35 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 19 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.
Page 15 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.