A Voice from the Motherland: Answering Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe's Appeal |
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... sense and taste . Thus was the nation almost Thus gradually the spirit of the nation was changed from the wisdom of the great statesmen of the older times to an arrogance and mad lust of universal empire , of which the world had before ...
... sense and taste . Thus was the nation almost Thus gradually the spirit of the nation was changed from the wisdom of the great statesmen of the older times to an arrogance and mad lust of universal empire , of which the world had before ...
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... senses of both sides engaged in the bloody fray ; and to give utterance to the warm hopes and prayers of their kinsmen here that the United States may soon recover peace and freedom . REMARKS ON MRS . H. B. STOWE'S REPLY . ALL 7.
... senses of both sides engaged in the bloody fray ; and to give utterance to the warm hopes and prayers of their kinsmen here that the United States may soon recover peace and freedom . REMARKS ON MRS . H. B. STOWE'S REPLY . ALL 7.
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... sense ( if any sense at all ) of the respect here paid to pri- vate rights and the impossibility of any restraint beyond the law of the land . But from the United States of America , claiming to be the freest country 13.
... sense ( if any sense at all ) of the respect here paid to pri- vate rights and the impossibility of any restraint beyond the law of the land . But from the United States of America , claiming to be the freest country 13.
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... sense of duty - hang all her hopes of the future . However gratefully to all the feelings of the abolitionists she might now speak , Great Britain would be the direst foe of freedom and right in America if our voice hounded them on to ...
... sense of duty - hang all her hopes of the future . However gratefully to all the feelings of the abolitionists she might now speak , Great Britain would be the direst foe of freedom and right in America if our voice hounded them on to ...
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... sense , has fancied it could suc- ceed in reversing those moral laws , the operation of which , depending on the nature and constitu- tion of man , is as certain as that of the material laws upholding and guiding the Universe . It would ...
... sense , has fancied it could suc- ceed in reversing those moral laws , the operation of which , depending on the nature and constitu- tion of man , is as certain as that of the material laws upholding and guiding the Universe . It would ...
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Page 4 - Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.
Page 36 - ... time recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained loyal thereto throughout the rebellion shall (upon the restoration of the constitutional...
Page 9 - ... we appeal to you very seriously to reflect and to ask counsel of God how far such a state of things is in accordance with his holy word, the inalienable rights of immortal souls, and the pure and merciful spirit of the Christian religion. We do not shut our eyes to the difficulties, nay, the dangers, that might beset the immediate abolition of that long-established system. We see and admit the necessity of preparation for so great an event ; but, in speaking of indispensable preliminaries, we...
Page 10 - England as to the real issues of the conflict in America. It has been often and earnestly asserted that slavery had nothing to do with this conflict ; that it was a mere struggle for power ; that the only object was to restore the Union as it was, with all its abuses. It is to be admitted that expressions have proceeded from the national administration which naturally gave rise to misapprehension, and therefore we beg to speak to you on this subject more fully.
Page 8 - The time has come, however, when such an astonishing page has been turned in the anti-slavery history of America that the women of our country, feeling that the great antislavery work to which their English sisters exhorted them is almost done, may properly and naturally feel moved to reply to their appeal, and lay before them the history of what has occurred since the receipt of their affectionate and Christian address.
Page 35 - December he would recommend the enactment "of a practical measure" offering to all slave states not then in rebellion against the United States and having "voluntarily adopt[ed] immediate, or gradual abolishment of slavery within their limits," the same type of "pecuniary aid" as he had offered the border states in March.
Page 7 - Already, more than once had these contests for power risen to a height threatening the safety of the Union, when the great question of freedom against slavery grew to a more dreadful struggle than any that had yet convulsed the United States of America.
Page 5 - Civis" looked lower than the surface, he would have recognised Slavery as the element of that "corruption" which was "sapping the vitals of all that remained really sound in the Commonwealth.
Page 4 - States to mutual concessions for the common safety and welfare, lay the only hope of the Constitution being permanent.
Page 5 - By an unceasing flood of emigration, continual additions were daily made to the population of citizens ignorant of the lessons of the past, and caring little for the real welfare of the United States, led only by some party cry of the hour.