 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1834 - 646 pages
...that you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from the character of the American people ; that you will promote mercy and justice towards this...species of traffic in the persons of our fellow-men. BENJ. FRANKLIN, President. PHILADELPHIA, February 3, 1790. Mr. HARTLEY then called up the memorial... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 244 pages
...you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from the character of the American people — that you will promote mercy and justice towards this...discouraging every species of traffic in the persons of our fellow men. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, President^ Philadelphia, Feb. 3, 1790. [Federal Gazette, 1790.]* BENJAMIN... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1837 - 486 pages
...surrounding freedom, are groaning in servile subjection ; that you will promote mercy and justice toward this distressed race, and that you will step to the...species of traffic in the persons of our fellow-men.'' (Signed.) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, President. The memorial, from which the above is extracted, was obviously... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Enslaved persons - 1839 - 160 pages
...inconsistency from the character of the American people — that you will promote mercy and justice toward this distressed race — and that you will step to...discouraging every species of traffic in the persons of our fellow men. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, President. Philadelphia, Feb. 3, 1790. [Federal Gazette, 1790.] BENJAMIN... | |
 | Slavery - 1843 - 404 pages
...inconsistency from the character of the American people — that you will promote merey and justice toward this distressed race — and that you will step to...of the power vested in you for discouraging every speeies of traffic in the persons of our fellow men. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, President. Philadelphia, Feb.... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1849 - 744 pages
...inconsistency from the character of the American people ; that you will promote mercy and justice toward this distressed race ; and that you will step to the...species of traffic in the persons of our fellow-men." Immediately after the reading of this petition, which CHAPTER oo-uld not have much tended to soothe... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 498 pages
...countenance to the cause of emancipation, and in stepping to the very verge of the power vested in it for DISCOURAGING every species of traffic in the persons of our fellow-men. Let all its officers and members join with Washington in declaring, that, in any legislative effort... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1851 - 716 pages
...inconsistency from the character of the American people ; that you will promote mercy and justice toward this distressed race ; and that you will step to the...species of traffic in the persons of our fellow-men." Immediately after the reading of this petition, which CHAPTER could not have much tended to soothe... | |
 | William Goodell - History - 1852 - 810 pages
...THAT you WILL DEVISE MEANS FOR REMOV1NO THIS INCONSISTENCY' OF CHARACTER FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ; that you will promote mercy and justice towards this...species of traffic in the persons of our fellow-men. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, PRESIDENT."* PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 3, 1790. [Federal Gazette, 1790.] DISCUSSIONS IN... | |
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... the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groaning in servile subjection ; that you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from the character of the American people ; that you will promote mercy and justice towards this distressed race,... 
