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... knows well that this is the most odious and damaging accusation that he could bring against a book claiming to have come from God ; that in an enlightened age , —an age when moral convictions and philanthropic sympathies have combined ...
... knows well that this is the most odious and damaging accusation that he could bring against a book claiming to have come from God ; that in an enlightened age , —an age when moral convictions and philanthropic sympathies have combined ...
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... know from its laws that have come down to us , and from glimpses of Roman life and manners in the classic writers . The Romans perfected the system of legalized chattelism . Their laws reduced the slave to the level of cattle . ' Slaves ...
... know from its laws that have come down to us , and from glimpses of Roman life and manners in the classic writers . The Romans perfected the system of legalized chattelism . Their laws reduced the slave to the level of cattle . ' Slaves ...
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... know that no slaves were held by the Essenes , or by the Therapeuta ; for these sects rejected all slavery , as in contravention with the natural equality of men . The Pharisees , too , were , on moral grounds , opposed to the holding ...
... know that no slaves were held by the Essenes , or by the Therapeuta ; for these sects rejected all slavery , as in contravention with the natural equality of men . The Pharisees , too , were , on moral grounds , opposed to the holding ...
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... knows that an honest application of Christ's golden rule would compel him to relinquish all pretense to property in his fellow - man . Not the most profane audacity of the advocates of slavery , nor the most ma- lignant ingenuity of ...
... knows that an honest application of Christ's golden rule would compel him to relinquish all pretense to property in his fellow - man . Not the most profane audacity of the advocates of slavery , nor the most ma- lignant ingenuity of ...
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... know that Noah's curse was definitively pronounced upon Canaan , Ham's youngest son , and was accomplish- ed when the Israelites subdued the Canaanites . But if any still insist upon applying it perpetually to the whole posterity of Ham ...
... know that Noah's curse was definitively pronounced upon Canaan , Ham's youngest son , and was accomplish- ed when the Israelites subdued the Canaanites . But if any still insist upon applying it perpetually to the whole posterity of Ham ...
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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.