Under these impressions, they earnestly entreat your serious attention to the subject of slavery; that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men who alone in this land of freedom are degraded into perpetual bondage,... The Works of Charles Sumner - Page 294by Charles Sumner - 1875Full view - About this book
| Antislavery movements - 1837 - 486 pages
...subject of slavery ; that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone, in this land of freedom, are degraded...bondage, and who, amidst the general joy of surrounding freedom, are groaning in servile subjection ; that you will promote mercy and justice toward this distressed... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames - Enslaved persons - 1839 - 160 pages
...subject of slavery ; that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone in this land of freedom, are degraded...amidst the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groanmg in servile subjection — that you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from the... | |
| Theology - 1839 - 418 pages
...of color," &tc., they entreat Congress " to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone in this land of freedom are degraded into perpetual bondage," fkc., " and that you will step to the very verge of the power vested in you for discouraging every... | |
| Slavery - 1843 - 404 pages
...justifiable endeavors to loosen the nance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone m this land of freedom, are degraded into perpetual...general joy of surrounding freemen, are groaning in senile subjection — thu.t you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from the character... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy - Slavery - 1843 - 598 pages
...subject of slavery ; that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone in this land of freedom, are degraded into perpetual bondage, and who amidst the generally of surrounding freemen, are groamng in servile subjection — that you will devise means... | |
| Richard Hildreth - United States - 1849 - 744 pages
...subject of slavery, that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men who alone, in this land of freedom, are degraded into perpetual bondage, and who, amid the general joy of sur* rounding freemen, are groaning in servile subjection ; that you will devise... | |
| Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 428 pages
...Congress under the Constitution, praying it " to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone, in this land of freedom, are degraded into perpetual bondage ; and to step to the very verge of the power vested in them for discouraging every species of traffic in... | |
| Richard Hildreth - United States - 1851 - 716 pages
...subject of slavery, that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men who alone, in this land of freedom, are degraded into perpetual bondage, and who, amid the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groaning in servile subjection; that you will devise... | |
| Richard Hildreth - United States - 1852 - 718 pages
...unhappy men who alone, in this land of freedom, are degraded into perpetual bondage, and who, amid the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groaning...American people ; that you will promote mercy and justice toward this distressed race ; and that you will step to the very verge of the power vested in you for... | |
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