William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879: 1841-1860Century Company, 1889 - Abolitionists |
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... Congress . ENGLAND . London , British Museum . " The future historian of the abolition of American slavery , on being furnished with the files of the Liberator , will find nearly all the materials he can require to complete his history ...
... Congress . ENGLAND . London , British Museum . " The future historian of the abolition of American slavery , on being furnished with the files of the Liberator , will find nearly all the materials he can require to complete his history ...
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... Congress , President Harrison 1 Collins , who , after his return from England , devoted all his spare time to lecturing and recruiting in Massachusetts and the neighboring States , delivering more than ninety addresses in upwards of ...
... Congress , President Harrison 1 Collins , who , after his return from England , devoted all his spare time to lecturing and recruiting in Massachusetts and the neighboring States , delivering more than ninety addresses in upwards of ...
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... Congress over slavery in the District , had been preceded by a speech at Richmond repudiating , Lib . 11:46 . as a native Virginian , the slightest sympathy with aboli- tionism . Tyler's message , on the other hand , made no Lib . 11:62 ...
... Congress over slavery in the District , had been preceded by a speech at Richmond repudiating , Lib . 11:46 . as a native Virginian , the slightest sympathy with aboli- tionism . Tyler's message , on the other hand , made no Lib . 11:62 ...
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... Congress at the first regular session- " We expect , " he said , " the sacred right of petition to be maintained impartially , and vindicated at all hazards . If this should be done , we are willing to risk all the consequences . The ...
... Congress at the first regular session- " We expect , " he said , " the sacred right of petition to be maintained impartially , and vindicated at all hazards . If this should be done , we are willing to risk all the consequences . The ...
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... Congress.1 Wright is - we scarcely know where ; and doing - we know not what.2 Phelps is a city mis- ton . Elizur Wright . A. A. Phelps . 1 Stanton - like Birney , who had gone to rusticate at Peterboro ' , N. Y. ( Lib . 12 : 127 ) —had ...
... Congress.1 Wright is - we scarcely know where ; and doing - we know not what.2 Phelps is a city mis- ton . Elizur Wright . A. A. Phelps . 1 Stanton - like Birney , who had gone to rusticate at Peterboro ' , N. Y. ( Lib . 12 : 127 ) —had ...
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Page 94 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that, if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved ; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation — amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Page 403 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 491 - I believe that to have interfered as I have done, as I have always freely admitted I have done, in behalf of his despised poor, I did no wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave...
Page 52 - We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us : for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves...
Page 420 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 106 - And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life ; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain ; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
Page 490 - I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say. "In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, — the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter, as I did last winter, when I went into Missouri and there took slaves without the snapping of a gun either side, moved them through the country, and finally left them in Canada.
Page 106 - For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people...
Page 53 - And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Page 490 - ... them in Canada. I designed to have done the same thing again, on a larger scale. That was all I intended. I never did intend murder, or treason, or the destruction of property, or to excite or incite slaves to rebellion, or to make insurrection.