Southern Slavery in Its Present Aspects: Containing a Reply to a Late Work of the Bishop of Vermont on Slavery |
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... land into the untold horrors of civil war , and yet boldly pray to the God of Israel to bless our very acts of rebellion against his own sovereign au- thority ? " Now , when the Bishop says " we , " he certainly does not mean ...
... land into the untold horrors of civil war , and yet boldly pray to the God of Israel to bless our very acts of rebellion against his own sovereign au- thority ? " Now , when the Bishop says " we , " he certainly does not mean ...
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... land , will he maintain that the Almighty recognizes as rightful property whatever the law of the land recognizes as such , and in the same sense and degree in which that law recognizes it as such ? Is it always right for me to hold and ...
... land , will he maintain that the Almighty recognizes as rightful property whatever the law of the land recognizes as such , and in the same sense and degree in which that law recognizes it as such ? Is it always right for me to hold and ...
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... land , and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein , but by the blood of him that shed it . " 2d , " If a man smite out the eye or the tooth of his servant , the servant shall go free for the eye or the tooth's ...
... land , and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein , but by the blood of him that shed it . " 2d , " If a man smite out the eye or the tooth of his servant , the servant shall go free for the eye or the tooth's ...
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... land , to all the inhabitants thereof . " This certainly might be fairly interpreted as ap- plying to slaves , if it applied to anybody - no excep- tions are made of foreign residents or anybody else . But I am not disposed to insist on ...
... land , to all the inhabitants thereof . " This certainly might be fairly interpreted as ap- plying to slaves , if it applied to anybody - no excep- tions are made of foreign residents or anybody else . But I am not disposed to insist on ...
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... land , " exclusively to those few who possessed the elective franchise ? 1 The charges of cruelty in the punishment , and barbarity in the treatment of slaves , are rebutted by à priori considerations ; the Christian principle , the ...
... land , " exclusively to those few who possessed the elective franchise ? 1 The charges of cruelty in the punishment , and barbarity in the treatment of slaves , are rebutted by à priori considerations ; the Christian principle , the ...
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