National Sermons: Sermons, Speeches and Letters on Slavery and Its War: from the Passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill to the Election of President Grant |
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... give the man of color access to every field of effort . Its obligation and real popularity . Peter's prejudice ; how cured . Lybica Sybilla and Sojourner Truth . The Church the redeemer of society . Each must esteem the other better ...
... give the man of color access to every field of effort . Its obligation and real popularity . Peter's prejudice ; how cured . Lybica Sybilla and Sojourner Truth . The Church the redeemer of society . Each must esteem the other better ...
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... give colored soldiers the same pay as white except they had been born free . The President shoots one for mutiny who refuses to serve on other conditions than those under which he had enlisted . Grant will not stir till this change is ...
... give colored soldiers the same pay as white except they had been born free . The President shoots one for mutiny who refuses to serve on other conditions than those under which he had enlisted . Grant will not stir till this change is ...
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... give them especial honor . 3. To unite all mankind in one . XXIII . THE UNITER AND LIBERATOR OF AMERICA . Delivered in Boston , April 23 , 1865 , on the occasion of the Death of Abraham Lincoln , Thy gentleness hath made me great ...
... give them especial honor . 3. To unite all mankind in one . XXIII . THE UNITER AND LIBERATOR OF AMERICA . Delivered in Boston , April 23 , 1865 , on the occasion of the Death of Abraham Lincoln , Thy gentleness hath made me great ...
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... give us a right to act in this manner , the law must be clearly immoral . Laws requiring obedience to any peculiar system of government are not of this class , as no form of govern- ment , as such , can be proved to be hostile to the ...
... give us a right to act in this manner , the law must be clearly immoral . Laws requiring obedience to any peculiar system of government are not of this class , as no form of govern- ment , as such , can be proved to be hostile to the ...
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... give up the pound of flesh , cut from the centre of the heart , bleeding with the dying life of a murdered Conscience , we demand the letter of the sinful law . According to the favorite argu- ment of the slaveholder , on his most ...
... give up the pound of flesh , cut from the centre of the heart , bleeding with the dying life of a murdered Conscience , we demand the letter of the sinful law . According to the favorite argu- ment of the slaveholder , on his most ...
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Page 577 - And there was mounting in hot haste ; the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 256 - And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!
Page 104 - I shall see him, but not now : I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 143 - So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Page 364 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 638 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Page 340 - I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; yea, Father, for such was thy gracious will.
Page 428 - For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment ; 'but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
Page 356 - Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
Page 59 - And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him. they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled. 5. And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some and killing some.