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... Humanity ; " and may be found in the chapter on the enfranchisement of serfs , in the vol- ume upon " Feudalism and the Church . " * Shall I then reproduce it in the English tongue , and give it currency in a nation that its author ...
... Humanity ; " and may be found in the chapter on the enfranchisement of serfs , in the vol- ume upon " Feudalism and the Church . " * Shall I then reproduce it in the English tongue , and give it currency in a nation that its author ...
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... humanity , to in- augurate liberty and equality in spite of the church . Theodore Parker charged upon the Bible the same in- famous complicity with slavery , and sneered at the idea of a supernatural revelation in the Scriptures . Such ...
... humanity , to in- augurate liberty and equality in spite of the church . Theodore Parker charged upon the Bible the same in- famous complicity with slavery , and sneered at the idea of a supernatural revelation in the Scriptures . Such ...
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... human beings . This imputation is " a blow aimed at all that good men hold most sacred . It seeks to undermine the very foundations of national morality and break the spring of all public and private virtue . It attacks Christianity in ...
... human beings . This imputation is " a blow aimed at all that good men hold most sacred . It seeks to undermine the very foundations of national morality and break the spring of all public and private virtue . It attacks Christianity in ...
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... human feeling in the Roman slave - law of republican times , and that of the earlier empire . The breaking up of slave families was entirely in the hands of the merchant or the owner ; husband might be separated from wife , and mother ...
... human feeling in the Roman slave - law of republican times , and that of the earlier empire . The breaking up of slave families was entirely in the hands of the merchant or the owner ; husband might be separated from wife , and mother ...
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... human society . Against the opinion that the division of mankind into freemen and slaves is created by the law of force , and is there- fore unjust , he argues , that some men are born as far inferior to others as the brute nature is ...
... human society . Against the opinion that the division of mankind into freemen and slaves is created by the law of force , and is there- fore unjust , he argues , that some men are born as far inferior to others as the brute nature is ...
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Page 66 - And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Page 64 - 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 64 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states...
Page 65 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans. Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, except the fortyeight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...
Page 65 - 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 for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 11 - Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 65 - ... order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit : Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St.
Page 30 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 47 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Page 34 - Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.