The Rising Son: Or, The Antecedents and Advancement of the Colored Race |
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... heads of some of our best citizens , which created the wildest excitement , and caused the arrest of those engaged in the disturbance . Everybody regarded Dr. Brown's aptness in this matter as a splendid joke ; and for many days after ...
... heads of some of our best citizens , which created the wildest excitement , and caused the arrest of those engaged in the disturbance . Everybody regarded Dr. Brown's aptness in this matter as a splendid joke ; and for many days after ...
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... head of their government . The people be- came law - abiding , and the constitution which they adopted was considered by the ancients as a pattern of political wisdom . Aristotle highly praises it as a model to other States . He informs ...
... head of their government . The people be- came law - abiding , and the constitution which they adopted was considered by the ancients as a pattern of political wisdom . Aristotle highly praises it as a model to other States . He informs ...
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... head of the government consisted of the suffetes , two chief magistrates , somewhat resembling the consuls of Rome , who presided in the senate , and whose au- thority extended to military as well as civil affairs . These officers ...
... head of the government consisted of the suffetes , two chief magistrates , somewhat resembling the consuls of Rome , who presided in the senate , and whose au- thority extended to military as well as civil affairs . These officers ...
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... head of the state , reforming abuses that had crept into the management of the finances , and the administration of justice . But these judicious reforms provoked the enmity of the factious nobles who had hitherto THE CARTHAGINIANS . 57.
... head of the state , reforming abuses that had crept into the management of the finances , and the administration of justice . But these judicious reforms provoked the enmity of the factious nobles who had hitherto THE CARTHAGINIANS . 57.
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... head , and even degraded themselves so far as to act as spies for the Romans , who still dreaded the abilities of the great general . In consequence of their machinations , the old hero was forced to fly from the country he had so long ...
... head , and even degraded themselves so far as to act as spies for the Romans , who still dreaded the abilities of the great general . In consequence of their machinations , the old hero was forced to fly from the country he had so long ...
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Page 339 - ... 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 339 - ... and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 341 - And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Page 339 - 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 241 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; — no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; — no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; — no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of Slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the God sink together in the dust...
Page 300 - I should return to the service of my earthly master, " for he who knoweth his Master's will, and doeth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes, and thus have I chastened you.
Page 340 - West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are, for the present, left precisely as if this Proclamation were not issued.
Page 463 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 241 - Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION ! [Here Mr.
Page 340 - I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of 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.