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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... liberty . III . Failure destroys liberty or compels civil war . IV . THE NATIONAL MIDNIGHT . Delivered at Westfield , Massachusetts , November 16 , 1856 , on the occasion of the election of James Buchanan to the Presidency , . 87 " And ...
... liberty . III . Failure destroys liberty or compels civil war . IV . THE NATIONAL MIDNIGHT . Delivered at Westfield , Massachusetts , November 16 , 1856 , on the occasion of the election of James Buchanan to the Presidency , . 87 " And ...
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... Liberty . I. Cause . 1. The growth of conscience as to the nature and effects of slavery . Begun in colonial life , developed in the Revolutionary era , but postponed because of the pressure of another duty . Decline in the post ...
... Liberty . I. Cause . 1. The growth of conscience as to the nature and effects of slavery . Begun in colonial life , developed in the Revolutionary era , but postponed because of the pressure of another duty . Decline in the post ...
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... Liberty and Union . 3. Financial . The downfall of Continental paper . Extravagance of the people . 4. Other troubles . Mutiny . Sectional prejudices . Feuds among the officers . Our superiority in all these respects . The likeness of ...
... Liberty and Union . 3. Financial . The downfall of Continental paper . Extravagance of the people . 4. Other troubles . Mutiny . Sectional prejudices . Feuds among the officers . Our superiority in all these respects . The likeness of ...
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... liberty . Might have been without liberty . Contrast with the last five anniversaries of Independence . II . Demands . The abolition of social and political slavery . The outer fetters fallen . What those were . Extract from auction ...
... liberty . Might have been without liberty . Contrast with the last five anniversaries of Independence . II . Demands . The abolition of social and political slavery . The outer fetters fallen . What those were . Extract from auction ...
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... liberty , and to hurl him hotly back into the hell from which they were unwittingly bearing him . Thus does the nature of man break through every crust , however thick , of oppression and degradation , and assert its supreme prerogative ...
... liberty , and to hurl him hotly back into the hell from which they were unwittingly bearing him . Thus does the nature of man break through every crust , however thick , of oppression and degradation , and assert its supreme prerogative ...
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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.