National Sermons: Sermons, Speeches and Letters on Slavery and Its War: from the Passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill to the Election of President Grant |
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... blood . It will tend to unite us to our enslaved brethren ; stimulate all peaceful modes of assault on slavery ; abate the haughty assumptions of the slave power . The benefit of his death , if he dies . Honors the American scaffold ...
... blood . It will tend to unite us to our enslaved brethren ; stimulate all peaceful modes of assault on slavery ; abate the haughty assumptions of the slave power . The benefit of his death , if he dies . Honors the American scaffold ...
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... blood , but both to be held in honor abroad and at home , and to become noted persons in the history of their times . * One has himself nailed in a box , and in this coffin - like carriage is rudely tossed hither and thither , as ...
... blood , but both to be held in honor abroad and at home , and to become noted persons in the history of their times . * One has himself nailed in a box , and in this coffin - like carriage is rudely tossed hither and thither , as ...
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... blood of the oppressed — the free- dom of which that grasp may deprive him . Never should our ear feel the everlasting burning of that cry of despair which bursts from the captured fugitive as our clutch fas- tens upon his body and his ...
... blood of the oppressed — the free- dom of which that grasp may deprive him . Never should our ear feel the everlasting burning of that cry of despair which bursts from the captured fugitive as our clutch fas- tens upon his body and his ...
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... blood and treasure , became an Aceldama , a field of blood unto this day . And great men and good men shouted loud hosannas over these peaceful measures , and declared that He who holdeth the winds in Ilis fists would bind these ...
... blood and treasure , became an Aceldama , a field of blood unto this day . And great men and good men shouted loud hosannas over these peaceful measures , and declared that He who holdeth the winds in Ilis fists would bind these ...
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... blood bind you to the oppressed as closely as to the oppressor ? In Adam , in Noah , you are of one blood ; in Christ , of one redemption . Will you see this gigantic cruelty marching northward , invading your threshold , subduing your ...
... blood bind you to the oppressed as closely as to the oppressor ? In Adam , in Noah , you are of one blood ; in Christ , of one redemption . Will you see this gigantic cruelty marching northward , invading your threshold , subduing your ...
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Page 266 - And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!
Page 524 - Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
Page 69 - But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir ; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.
Page 634 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said : " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 517 - And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast ; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
Page 153 - So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Page 451 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil ? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave ? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence ; ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.
Page 10 - STERN Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe, From vain temptations dost set free, And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity!
Page 34 - To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue, A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Page 350 - I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; yea, Father, for such was thy gracious will.