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... present war , the independence of all the West India Islands , and their establishment in a separate confederacy , our quarter of the globe would exhibit an enrapturing prospect into futurity . You will live to see much of this . I ...
... present war , the independence of all the West India Islands , and their establishment in a separate confederacy , our quarter of the globe would exhibit an enrapturing prospect into futurity . You will live to see much of this . I ...
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... present in all its horrid details . The Spanish officer defended his course , -which however he is said in official communications to the Spanish Crown to have exulted over , -on the ground that he could not afford to spare powder and ...
... present in all its horrid details . The Spanish officer defended his course , -which however he is said in official communications to the Spanish Crown to have exulted over , -on the ground that he could not afford to spare powder and ...
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... present visit to the United States is the realization of the consoling object of that wish . " The distinguished orator , as he proceeded assured the guest of the Republic that in one respect he would find the people of America ...
... present visit to the United States is the realization of the consoling object of that wish . " The distinguished orator , as he proceeded assured the guest of the Republic that in one respect he would find the people of America ...
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... , their ignorance and bigotry make them instruments often , in the hands of Bonapartes and Iturbides , to defeat their own rights and purposes . This is the present situation of Europe and FRIENDS OF CIVIL LIBERTY . 25.
... , their ignorance and bigotry make them instruments often , in the hands of Bonapartes and Iturbides , to defeat their own rights and purposes . This is the present situation of Europe and FRIENDS OF CIVIL LIBERTY . 25.
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John Cleaves Henderson. purposes . This is the present situation of Europe and Spanish America . But it is not desperate . The light which has been shed on mankind by the art of printing , has eminently changed the condition of the world ...
John Cleaves Henderson. purposes . This is the present situation of Europe and Spanish America . But it is not desperate . The light which has been shed on mankind by the art of printing , has eminently changed the condition of the world ...
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Page 286 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 215 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 115 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Page 249 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 286 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 286 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 248 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...
Page 357 - The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Page 268 - No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America.
Page 62 - The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.