| Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society - African Americans - 1846 - 510 pages
...: — " 1. Believing that involuntary and hereditary Slavery, as it exists by law in this State, is injurious to the prosperity of the Commonwealth, inconsistent...government, contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and 3 adverse to a pure state of morals, we are of opinion that it ought not to be increased, and it ought... | |
| Charles Hodge - Presbyterian Church - 1857 - 650 pages
...promises : ' "1. Believing that involuntary hereditary slavery, as it exists by law in this State, is injurious to the prosperity of the commonwealth, inconsistent...government, contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and injurious to a pure state of morals, we are of opinion that it ought not to be increased, and that... | |
| Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 588 pages
...the premises : 1. Believing that involuntary hereditary slavery, as it exists bylaw in this State, is injurious to the prosperity of the Commonwealth, inconsistent...government, contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and injurious to a pure state of morals, we are of opinion that it ought not to be increased, and that... | |
| Robert Livingston Stanton - History - 1864 - 576 pages
...the premises: 1. Believing that involuntary hereditary slavery, as it exists bylaw in this State, is injurious to the prosperity of the Commonwealth, inconsistent...government, contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and injurious to a pure state of morals, we are of opinion that it ought not to be increased, and that... | |
| Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 592 pages
...the premises : 1. Believing that involuntary hereditary slavery, as it exists bylaw in this State, is injurious to the prosperity of the Commonwealth, inconsistent...government, contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and injurious to a pure state of morals, we are of opinion that it ought not to be increased, and that... | |
| Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1881 - 626 pages
...being unanimous: "Believing that involuntary hereditary slavery as it exists by law in this state is injurious to the prosperity of the commonwealth, inconsistent...free government, contrary to the natural rights of man1 lie writes to his son James, March 8, 1849: "As you were absent I sent to Richard Kendell a letter... | |
| Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1881 - 620 pages
...being unanimous: "Believing that involuntary hereditary slavery as it exists by law in this state is injurious to the prosperity of the commonwealth, inconsistent...free government, contrary to the natural rights of man1 He writes to his son James, March 3, 1849: "As you were absent I sent to Ricbard Kendell a letter... | |
| Moorfield Storey - Legislators - 1900 - 492 pages
...territory. A convention in Kentucky, composed of delegates from twenty-four counties, pronounced it " injurious to the prosperity of the Commonwealth, inconsistent...principles of free government, contrary to the natural right of mankind, and adverse to a pure state of morals," and declared " that it ought not to be increased,... | |
| Asa Earl Martin - Antislavery movements - 1918 - 176 pages
...being unanimous: "Believing that involuntary, hereditary slavery as it exists by law in this state is injurious to the prosperity of the Commonwealth, inconsistent...and adverse to a pure state of morals; we are of the opinion that it ought not to be increased, and that it ought not to be perpetuated in the Commonwealth."... | |
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