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From American Colonization Society May 28 , 1913 . THE AFRICAN REPOSITORY . VOL . XXXVIII - 1862 .
From American Colonization Society May 28 , 1913 . THE AFRICAN REPOSITORY . VOL . XXXVIII - 1862 .
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... Society..232-244 Of Maine Colonization So- ciety ...... 244 Review of the Hand of God with the Black Race - the 6th article of the October No. of the Princeton Reper- tory .. .... 352 , 359 Receipts - 31,32 , 54 , 96 , 128 , 192 , 223 ...
... Society..232-244 Of Maine Colonization So- ciety ...... 244 Review of the Hand of God with the Black Race - the 6th article of the October No. of the Princeton Reper- tory .. .... 352 , 359 Receipts - 31,32 , 54 , 96 , 128 , 192 , 223 ...
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... COLONIZATION . -Now England is straining every nerve on India , and by ... Society is located among us in this city . It is thoroughly loyal , and ... Colonization Society has been taking charge of these captured Africans in immense ...
... COLONIZATION . -Now England is straining every nerve on India , and by ... Society is located among us in this city . It is thoroughly loyal , and ... Colonization Society has been taking charge of these captured Africans in immense ...
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... Colonization Society . ANOTHER DAHOMEY MASSACRE . - Another of those diabolical massacres , which are a stigma on civilization , was about to be carried into effect at Dahomey . The canni- bal King was going to have another " grand ...
... Colonization Society . ANOTHER DAHOMEY MASSACRE . - Another of those diabolical massacres , which are a stigma on civilization , was about to be carried into effect at Dahomey . The canni- bal King was going to have another " grand ...
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Page 296 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Page 104 - Resolved, That the United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.
Page 208 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said treaty to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Page 176 - I further make known that, whether it be competent for me, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of any State or States free, and whether, at any time, or in any case, it shall have become a necessity indispensable to the maintenance of the Government to exercise such supposed power, are questions which, under my responsibility, I reserve to myself, and which I can not feel justified in leaving to the decision of commanders in the field.
Page 297 - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any persons to whom such service or labor is claimed to be due, and any officer who shall be found guilty by a court-martial of violating this article shall be dismissed from the service. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That this act shall take effect...
Page 104 - Government would find its highest interest in such a measure, as one of the most efficient means of self-preservation. The leaders of the existing insurrection entertain the hope that this government will ultimately be forced to acknowledge the independence of some part of the disaffected region, and that all the slave States north of such part will then say, "The Union for which we have struggled being already gone, we now choose to go with the Southern section.
Page 104 - ... all the States initiating it. The point is not that all the States tolerating slavery would very soon, if at all, initiate emancipation; but that while the offer is equally made to all, the more northern shall by such initiation make it certain to the more southern that in no event will the former ever join the latter in their proposed confederacy. I say "initiation" because, in my judgment, gradual and not sudden emancipation is better for all.
Page 177 - Will you not embrace it? So much good has not been done by one effort in all past time, as in the Providence of God it is now your high privilege to do. May the vast future not have to lament that you have neglected it.
Page 334 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 297 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure...