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... blood not to avail themselves of any opening to es- cape . It is their right ; it will be their practice . Free locomotion is an incident of slave property , which the master must put up with . Nimble legs are of much use in tempering ...
... blood not to avail themselves of any opening to es- cape . It is their right ; it will be their practice . Free locomotion is an incident of slave property , which the master must put up with . Nimble legs are of much use in tempering ...
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... - rection and servile war . It would be the most cruel , hopeless , and desperate of all conceivable follies , to seek emancipation by the sword and by blood . And though I love liberty as my own life , though 14 FREEDOM AND WAR .
... - rection and servile war . It would be the most cruel , hopeless , and desperate of all conceivable follies , to seek emancipation by the sword and by blood . And though I love liberty as my own life , though 14 FREEDOM AND WAR .
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... blood of our blood , and who are in many eminent respects united to us in a common historic glory . We are far from wishing them diminution or feebleness ; so far from it , we most heartily and sincerely , and with much more earnestness ...
... blood of our blood , and who are in many eminent respects united to us in a common historic glory . We are far from wishing them diminution or feebleness ; so far from it , we most heartily and sincerely , and with much more earnestness ...
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... blood of the saints is the seed of the Church . There is no such seed planted in this world as good blood . I see that my words are being reported ; and as free speech may get into Charleston , some men there may see what I say ; and ...
... blood of the saints is the seed of the Church . There is no such seed planted in this world as good blood . I see that my words are being reported ; and as free speech may get into Charleston , some men there may see what I say ; and ...
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... blood in the veins , and humanity in the heart , so long the fugitive will not want for sympathy and help to escape ! - I say , again , that we are bound , as men of truth and conscience , to look this matter in the face , and ask ...
... blood in the veins , and humanity in the heart , so long the fugitive will not want for sympathy and help to escape ! - I say , again , that we are bound , as men of truth and conscience , to look this matter in the face , and ask ...
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Page 420 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying ; Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues; for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Page 57 - And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
Page 223 - Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
Page 445 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 87 - And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will show to you to-day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Page 368 - When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him. 26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him : and he was as one dead ; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
Page 178 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 86 - Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
Page 444 - Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
Page 444 - ... the merchandise of gold and silver, and precious stones and of pearls, and fine linen and purple, and silk and scarlet, and all thyine wood and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble...