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... held a conspicuous rank . His remarks upon the various questions which arose were learned , judicious , and sometimes rendered all the more effec- tive by the flashes of his wit . Speaking , for example , on the third article of the ...
... held a conspicuous rank . His remarks upon the various questions which arose were learned , judicious , and sometimes rendered all the more effec- tive by the flashes of his wit . Speaking , for example , on the third article of the ...
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... held on the 16th of April , 1822 , received 2,500 out of 2,650 votes , and thus became the first mayor of the city of Boston . The inauguration occurred at Faneuil Hall on the 1st of May following . The ceremonies of the occasion were ...
... held on the 16th of April , 1822 , received 2,500 out of 2,650 votes , and thus became the first mayor of the city of Boston . The inauguration occurred at Faneuil Hall on the 1st of May following . The ceremonies of the occasion were ...
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... held at the same place on the 16th of December . Ten gentlemen were present ; and a committee of five was appointed to draft a consti- tution for an anti - slavery society , to be reported Jan. 1 , 1832. The body of the constitution ...
... held at the same place on the 16th of December . Ten gentlemen were present ; and a committee of five was appointed to draft a consti- tution for an anti - slavery society , to be reported Jan. 1 , 1832. The body of the constitution ...
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... held a strengthening conversation until the hour of retirement , when I threw myself upon my prison - bed , and slept tranquilly . " In the morning the prisoner wrote with a pencil the following inscription upon the walls of his cell ...
... held a strengthening conversation until the hour of retirement , when I threw myself upon my prison - bed , and slept tranquilly . " In the morning the prisoner wrote with a pencil the following inscription upon the walls of his cell ...
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... held a com- mission in a Suffolk regiment . The colonel of that regiment happened to be standing near him . 66 Colonel , " said the younger officer , " why not call out the guards ? Let us offer our services to the mayor . " In ten ...
... held a com- mission in a Suffolk regiment . The colonel of that regiment happened to be standing near him . 66 Colonel , " said the younger officer , " why not call out the guards ? Let us offer our services to the mayor . " In ten ...
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Page 202 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 221 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
Page 79 - Sir, when I heard the gentleman lay down principles which place the murderers of Alton side by side with Otis and Hancock, with Quincy and Adams, I thought those pictured lips [pointing to the portraits in the Hall] would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant American — the slanderer of the dead.
Page 418 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Page 53 - ... the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man ; and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they shall reject with indignation the wild and guilty fantasy, that man can hold property in man ! In vain you appeal to treaties, to covenants between nations.
Page 31 - It is not fit that the land of the Pilgrims should bear the shame longer. I hear the sound of the hammer, I see the smoke of the furnaces where manacles and fetters are still forged for human limbs. I see the visages of those who by stealth and at midnight labor in this work of hell, foul and dark, as may become the artificers of such instruments of misery and torture. Let that spot be purified, or let it cease to be of New England.
Page 82 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who fears to put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Page 169 - March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise Measures — is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly...
Page 130 - Christian doctrine taught us to do unto others as we would that others should do unto us.
Page 214 - In the whole of this conflict, I have looked only at Liberty, — only at the slave. Perry entered the battle of the Lakes with " DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP !" floating from the masthead of the Lawrence.