 | 1815 - 628 pages
...said to have PROCLAMATION. Ta (Itefree colured inhabitants of Louisiana'. Through a mistaken policy you have heretofore been deprived of a participation...exist. As sons of freedom, you are now called upon to def«id our most inestimable blessing. As AmerU cans, your country looks with confidence to her adopted... | |
 | Arsène Lacarrière Latour - New Orleans, Battle of, New Orleans, La., 1815 - 1816 - 490 pages
...Mobile, Sefitember 2\, 1814. To the free coloured inhabitants of Louisiana. THROUGH a mistaken policy you have heretofore been deprived of a participation...are now called upon to defend our most inestimable blessing. As Americans, your country looks with confidence to her adopted children, for a valorous... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 244 pages
...JACKSON. Proclamation to the free colored inhabitants of Louisiana. — Through a mistaken policy, you have heretofore been deprived of a participation...are now called upon to defend our most inestimable blessing. As Americans, your country looks with confidence to her adopted children, for a valorous... | |
 | Hosea Easton - African Americans - 1837 - 68 pages
...Mobile, September 21, 1814. To the Free Colored Inhabitant! of Louiriana. ' Through a mistaken policy you have heretofore been deprived of a participation...are now called upon to defend our most inestimable hlessinc. As American*, your country looks with confidence to her adopted children, for a valorous... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 360 pages
...September 21, 1814, addressed to the free coloured inhabitants of Louisiana. It holds this language : "As sons of freedom you are now called upon to defend our most inestimable blessing." And again : " To every nobie.hearted freeman of colour, volunteering to serve during the... | |
 | Robert Benjamin Lewis - Black race - 1844 - 414 pages
...it be remarked, they were' addressed as fellow citizens with the whites: "Through a mistaken policy you have heretofore been deprived of a participation...are now called upon to defend our most inestimable blessing. As Americans, your country looks with confidence to her adopted children, for a valorous... | |
 | James Parton - Presidents - 1860 - 810 pages
...proclamation annexed : — " To the Free Colored Inhabitants of Louisiana : — Through a mistaken policy you have heretofore been deprived of a participation...are now called upon to defend our most inestimable blessing. As Americans, your country looks with confidence to her adopted children, for a valorous... | |
 | George Livermore - African Americans - 1862 - 246 pages
...MOBILE, September 21, 1814. To the Free Colored Inhabitants of Louisiana. Through a mistaken policy, you have heretofore been deprived of a participation...are now called upon to defend our most inestimable blessing. As Americans, your country looks with confidence to her adopted children for a valorous support,... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Kansas - 1862 - 440 pages
...addressed " to the free coloured inhabitants of Louisiana," he says:—" Through a mistaken policy you have heretofore been deprived of a participation...are now called upon to defend our most inestimable blessing. As Americans, your country looks with confidence to her adopted children for a valorous support.... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1863 - 316 pages
...MOBILE, September 21, 1814. "To THE FREE COLORED INHABITANTS or LOUISIANA. "Through a mistaken policy, you have heretofore been deprived of a participation...are now called upon to defend our most inestimable blessing. As Americans, your country looks with confidence to her adopted children for a valorous support,... | |
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Through a mistaken policy, you have heretofore been deprived of a participation in the glorious struggle for national rights in which our country is engaged. This no longer shall exist. As sons of freedom, you are now called upon to defend our most inestimable... 
