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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... possessing degrees of humanity , ( the peculiar nature of man , by which he is distinguished from the other beings , ) comprehends that order under the head of " living creature " in the 24th verse of the first chapter of Genesis , and ...
... possessing degrees of humanity , ( the peculiar nature of man , by which he is distinguished from the other beings , ) comprehends that order under the head of " living creature " in the 24th verse of the first chapter of Genesis , and ...
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... possessed at the period of their discovery to us ; nor do we trace but a retro- cession among those European nations who have largely commingled with the aboriginees of this country . This class of progressive existences fall to dust ...
... possessed at the period of their discovery to us ; nor do we trace but a retro- cession among those European nations who have largely commingled with the aboriginees of this country . This class of progressive existences fall to dust ...
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... possessed the arts and sciences , so near them on the Eastern portion of that Division ; if they had not been created in the scale of existence but little above the highest class of apes , showing thereby a close analogy between the two ...
... possessed the arts and sciences , so near them on the Eastern portion of that Division ; if they had not been created in the scale of existence but little above the highest class of apes , showing thereby a close analogy between the two ...
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... possesses , ren- dering it useful to man in the many multiplied stages of human advancement and refinement . In most cases , the tenure of slavery on the Conti- nent of America is growing milder , and much more lenient than formerly ...
... possesses , ren- dering it useful to man in the many multiplied stages of human advancement and refinement . In most cases , the tenure of slavery on the Conti- nent of America is growing milder , and much more lenient than formerly ...
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... possessed any higher moral standard than the people living in the South ! In the latter section , the climate is better adapted to the colored race , the productions being different , and the country sparsely settled ; there were more ...
... possessed any higher moral standard than the people living in the South ! In the latter section , the climate is better adapted to the colored race , the productions being different , and the country sparsely settled ; there were more ...
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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.