The Progress and Intelligence of Americans: Proof of Slavery, from the First Chapter of Genesis, as Founded on Organic Law; Progress of Slavery South and South-West, with Free Labor Advancing, Through the Acquistion [sic] of Territory; Advantages Enumerated and Explained1862 - African Americans - 508 pages |
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... commands of God in the 28th verse of the same chapter , for the constitutional government of " the man and the female , " on earth , as God's vicegerents ! This solemn and weighty trust is reserved to “ the man PREFACE. ...
... commands of God in the 28th verse of the same chapter , for the constitutional government of " the man and the female , " on earth , as God's vicegerents ! This solemn and weighty trust is reserved to “ the man PREFACE. ...
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... female , " the last touch of God in the consummation of His great work ! Upon these rests the dominion of all matter , whether inanimate or animate below them ; it is for them to con- trol , and the sooner the perverted and wicked ...
... female , " the last touch of God in the consummation of His great work ! Upon these rests the dominion of all matter , whether inanimate or animate below them ; it is for them to con- trol , and the sooner the perverted and wicked ...
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... female ' God commanded , Have dominion etc. , etc. , etc. , ' and that this means the existence of power over an inferior , with reference to which , God has given us no choice , except we rebel against this command , in terms most ...
... female ' God commanded , Have dominion etc. , etc. , etc. , ' and that this means the existence of power over an inferior , with reference to which , God has given us no choice , except we rebel against this command , in terms most ...
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... female . Can we suppose for one moment , carrying ourselves back to this grand juncture of time , ever so memorable in the creation , that the Almighty possessed two or more images or likenesses , by which we mean , in plain language ...
... female . Can we suppose for one moment , carrying ourselves back to this grand juncture of time , ever so memorable in the creation , that the Almighty possessed two or more images or likenesses , by which we mean , in plain language ...
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... female created He them . ” How definite are these words ! and how noble and God - like is man thus created ! If we have any right to reason at all , or think for ourselves , with reference to our origin , is it to be contradicted or ...
... female created He them . ” How definite are these words ! and how noble and God - like is man thus created ! If we have any right to reason at all , or think for ourselves , with reference to our origin , is it to be contradicted or ...
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Page 111 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 211 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 108 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 110 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Page 108 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Page 107 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night: and the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 107 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 109 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 480 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 480 - That the new dogma, that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States, is a dangerous political heresy, at variance with the explicit provisions of that instrument itself, with contemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent; is revolutionary in its tendency and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country.