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Page 33
... feeling and the environments of slavery favored this design of Providence in a far greater degree than those persons suppose who do not thoroughly know the negro in the rural districts of the South , as well as in the towns and cities ...
... feeling and the environments of slavery favored this design of Providence in a far greater degree than those persons suppose who do not thoroughly know the negro in the rural districts of the South , as well as in the towns and cities ...
Page 49
... feeling . I know the negro face . There was some- thing almost worshipful in the man's manner and expression as he stood in silent contemplation . He looked as if the sight of that marble statue was the fruition of a pilgrimage , and as ...
... feeling . I know the negro face . There was some- thing almost worshipful in the man's manner and expression as he stood in silent contemplation . He looked as if the sight of that marble statue was the fruition of a pilgrimage , and as ...
Page 54
... feeling uppermost could not do their d to the slaves . But God's plans must not be mar by human ignorance or cupidity . So it came pass that God used a great war to set free t negroes . If the hand of God were fully and devoutly r ...
... feeling uppermost could not do their d to the slaves . But God's plans must not be mar by human ignorance or cupidity . So it came pass that God used a great war to set free t negroes . If the hand of God were fully and devoutly r ...
Page 57
... feeling will come into their hearts . They cannot realize the solemn significance of their free- dom so long as they ... feels profoundly that God , the Father and King of men , bestowed upon him this fearful but glorious gift of freedom ...
... feeling will come into their hearts . They cannot realize the solemn significance of their free- dom so long as they ... feels profoundly that God , the Father and King of men , bestowed upon him this fearful but glorious gift of freedom ...
Page 75
... feeling and sentimentalism ; whether it was designed , in part at least , as a re- pression of any reactionary tendencies in the " old masters , " we need not discuss at this time . When there is less noise of men running to and fro ...
... feeling and sentimentalism ; whether it was designed , in part at least , as a re- pression of any reactionary tendencies in the " old masters , " we need not discuss at this time . When there is less noise of men running to and fro ...
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Page 44 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Page 68 - 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 195 - And I will come near to you to judgment; And I will be a swift witness Against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, And against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, The widow, and the fatherless, And that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, Saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 61 - If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not, now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
Page 195 - At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
Page 196 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 28 - But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Page 134 - You know I am incapable of the weakness of jealousy, Peter; but what I have seen with my own eyes, and heard with my own ears, in this disguise, must command credit, however reluctantly granted.
Page 63 - What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet!
Page 195 - Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong ; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work...