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 15
... suppose he will not deny that some of the slave States are familiarly called Cotton States , or that in others men and women are sold in the open market , and are bred with a view to such a sale . So much for the facts ; then follows ...
... suppose he will not deny that some of the slave States are familiarly called Cotton States , or that in others men and women are sold in the open market , and are bred with a view to such a sale . So much for the facts ; then follows ...
Page 20
... and demented . " If we may suppose he had attained to the " ornament of a meek and quiet spirit " so conspicuously displayed by the Bishop of Vermont , he certainly had not learned the dialect in 20 SOUTHERN SLAVERY .
... and demented . " If we may suppose he had attained to the " ornament of a meek and quiet spirit " so conspicuously displayed by the Bishop of Vermont , he certainly had not learned the dialect in 20 SOUTHERN SLAVERY .
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... Suppose the Archbishop should affix such a signature to his " views , " when they had been ex- pressly desired , and were accompanied by the state- ment that they had been expressly desired , as the views of a Christian Archbishop ...
... Suppose the Archbishop should affix such a signature to his " views , " when they had been ex- pressly desired , and were accompanied by the state- ment that they had been expressly desired , as the views of a Christian Archbishop ...
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... suppose , therefore , that they were raving , and had no meaning at all ? If the Bishop had taken as much pains to show what , as reasonable and intelligent men , they probably did mean , as he has to show what they could not have meant ...
... suppose , therefore , that they were raving , and had no meaning at all ? If the Bishop had taken as much pains to show what , as reasonable and intelligent men , they probably did mean , as he has to show what they could not have meant ...
Page 57
... of the United States , and in force at its adoption , and also to the Constitutions of Georgia and Pennsylvania , formed soon afterwards , it appears to suppose that it does not also include the slaves THE LETTER , AND THE ANSWER . 57.
... of the United States , and in force at its adoption , and also to the Constitutions of Georgia and Pennsylvania , formed soon afterwards , it appears to suppose that it does not also include the slaves THE LETTER , AND THE ANSWER . 57.
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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.