Southern Slavery in Its Present Aspects:: Containing a Reply to a Late Work of the Bishop of Vermont on Slavery |
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Page 68
... Union and Peace , " and declares that " the question of slavery lies at the root of our present difficulties . " Yet he insists that he is “ no politician , " and he elsewhere , in the most scornful terms , scouts at the idea of ...
... Union and Peace , " and declares that " the question of slavery lies at the root of our present difficulties . " Yet he insists that he is “ no politician , " and he elsewhere , in the most scornful terms , scouts at the idea of ...
Page 79
... Union to the other , that then they might hold their chattels in peace . I have myself been told to my face by one of their Northern abettors , a man of high political considera- tion , and at that time a Judge of a State Supreme Court ...
... Union to the other , that then they might hold their chattels in peace . I have myself been told to my face by one of their Northern abettors , a man of high political considera- tion , and at that time a Judge of a State Supreme Court ...
Page 80
... Union , and to have clung to it to the last moment , Alexander H. Stephens , now Vice - President of the so - called Confederate States , then a member of Congress from Georgia . It is from a speech which he delivered in the House of ...
... Union , and to have clung to it to the last moment , Alexander H. Stephens , now Vice - President of the so - called Confederate States , then a member of Congress from Georgia . It is from a speech which he delivered in the House of ...
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... Union of the country . New England is loyal , thoroughly loyal ; will loyal men therefore cast her off and treat her with contempt ? New England may have boasted of herself quite too much ; but , in the first place , she really had ...
... Union of the country . New England is loyal , thoroughly loyal ; will loyal men therefore cast her off and treat her with contempt ? New England may have boasted of herself quite too much ; but , in the first place , she really had ...
Page 138
... union with a wife was no marriage , his master might tor- ture or kill him at will , the modes of torture were various and cruel , and the ordinary punishment of death was crucifixion . The breaking up of slave families was entirely in ...
... union with a wife was no marriage , his master might tor- ture or kill him at will , the modes of torture were various and cruel , and the ordinary punishment of death was crucifixion . The breaking up of slave families was entirely in ...
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Page 286 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 104 - At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Page 98 - And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth...
Page 109 - These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
Page 98 - Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter. 10. And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed ; for all the goods of his master were in his hand : and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
Page 45 - And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. 12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it...
Page 32 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Page 106 - And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
Page 110 - And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth...
Page 111 - But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.