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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... object of the naturalist . The philosophy of reasoning for the purpose of arriving at this truth , which is ever noble , ingenuous and magnanimous , is based on organic law , as to known effects of production , and on analogy , in ...
... object of the naturalist . The philosophy of reasoning for the purpose of arriving at this truth , which is ever noble , ingenuous and magnanimous , is based on organic law , as to known effects of production , and on analogy , in ...
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... object of this work is to trace inanimate and animate matter back to its original state , and thence see the order of creation , and how each part is to be governed by natural law , which furnishes the basis for civil or conventional ...
... object of this work is to trace inanimate and animate matter back to its original state , and thence see the order of creation , and how each part is to be governed by natural law , which furnishes the basis for civil or conventional ...
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... object he touches , whereas the former is content to imitate him in a few of the most primitive of the arts of mechan- ism ! Is this position not beyond refutation ? If God had designed the negro race for a free people and a high state ...
... object he touches , whereas the former is content to imitate him in a few of the most primitive of the arts of mechan- ism ! Is this position not beyond refutation ? If God had designed the negro race for a free people and a high state ...
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... objects , vast plains and forests , with lofty mountains , majestic rivers , and ocean - like lakes . It copies after the creation ! In search of laborers to fell the forests of America , the natives nor the white exotics , being equal ...
... objects , vast plains and forests , with lofty mountains , majestic rivers , and ocean - like lakes . It copies after the creation ! In search of laborers to fell the forests of America , the natives nor the white exotics , being equal ...
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... object of confederation between the Colonies for mutual defence against their common enemy was now over , and they turned their consider- ations to self - government . Their trials and privations had been severe ; an ordeal they had ...
... object of confederation between the Colonies for mutual defence against their common enemy was now over , and they turned their consider- ations to self - government . Their trials and privations had been severe ; an ordeal they had ...
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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.