Autographs for FreedomJulia Griffiths Alden, Beardsley & Company, 1854 - 309 páginas |
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... question of bodily freedom , but take in also the col- lateral issues connected with human enfranchisement , independent of race , complexion , or sex . The Abolitionist of to - day is the Iconoclast of the age , and his mission is to ...
... question of bodily freedom , but take in also the col- lateral issues connected with human enfranchisement , independent of race , complexion , or sex . The Abolitionist of to - day is the Iconoclast of the age , and his mission is to ...
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... question , what further shall be done ? An under officer suggested the propriety of firing " hot shot at the magazine . " The proposition was agreed to . The furnaces were heated , balls were prepared , and the cannonade was resumed ...
... question , what further shall be done ? An under officer suggested the propriety of firing " hot shot at the magazine . " The proposition was agreed to . The furnaces were heated , balls were prepared , and the cannonade was resumed ...
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... question , thus prevent- ing any remarks on its enormities - any appeals to the consciences of the members - against the perpetra- tion of such detestable wickedness . Seldom has any public iniquity been committed to which the words of ...
... question , thus prevent- ing any remarks on its enormities - any appeals to the consciences of the members - against the perpetra- tion of such detestable wickedness . Seldom has any public iniquity been committed to which the words of ...
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... question ; and it would be presumptuous in me to signify that I can solve it to your satisfaction . But still , Albert , your observations only confirm , in my own mind , your total ignorance of what constitutes a Christian . Al- bert ...
... question ; and it would be presumptuous in me to signify that I can solve it to your satisfaction . But still , Albert , your observations only confirm , in my own mind , your total ignorance of what constitutes a Christian . Al- bert ...
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... question , I am strongly disposed to 1 ass by all ethical and meta- physical dissertation , and appeal at once to the only standard of right and wrong which can prove decisive . It is the responses of the sa red oracles to which we must ...
... question , I am strongly disposed to 1 ass by all ethical and meta- physical dissertation , and appeal at once to the only standard of right and wrong which can prove decisive . It is the responses of the sa red oracles to which we must ...
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Abolitionist African Albert American anti-slavery beautiful Bible blood brother called Captain cause Christ Christian Clarkson colored common Humanity crime curse dark dear death divine Douglass earth evil feel Frank Frederick Douglass freedom friends Fugitive Slave Fugitive Slave Law GERRIT SMITH give God's Gracelius Granville Sharp happy heart heaven honor hope institutions interest Jesus labor liberty look Lord Loxian malum in se mankind Mary master ment mind moral mother nations nature never northern o'er Ogé oppression passions persons piracy pirates pleasure prayer principles question race religion replied sentiments slaveholders slavery smile soon soul southern speak spirit spirit of Eden tell Templeton theatre thee things Thomas Clarkson thou thought tion true truth Uncle Uncle Tom Uncle Tom's Cabin vessel Vincent Ogé virtue Ward words wrong young
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Página 286 - These thoughts pressed upon me, and rendered the conflict difficult. "But the sacrifice of my prospects staggered me, I own, the most. When the other objections which I have related occurred to me, my enthusiasm instantly, like a flash of lightning, consumed them; but this stuck to me, and troubled me. I had ambition. I had a thirst after worldly interest and honors, and I could not extinguish it at once. I was more than two hours in solitude under this painful conflict. At length I yielded, not...
Página 287 - To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to — shut the gates...
Página 209 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Página 72 - Britain, who had labored so long and so successfully for the abolition of the slave trade, and the emancipation of the slaves of the West Indies; and I at once resolved to pay a visit to the grave of Wilberforce. A half an hour after, I entered Westminster Abbey, at Poets...
Página 111 - And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle.
Página 225 - ... call evil good, and good evil; put darkness for light, and light for darkness ;"-]- and " think wickedly, that God is such an one as himself.
Página 111 - AC nso. and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, — — — — If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found oat my riddle.
Página 200 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Página 74 - African slave-trade, and prepared the way for the abolition of slavery in every colony of the empire. In the prosecution of these objects, he relied not in vain on God; but, in the progress, he was called to endure great obloquy and great opposition.
Página 294 - Eich and poor, churchmen and dissenters had adopted the measure. Even grocers had left off trading in the article in some places. In gentlemen's families, where the master had set the example, the servants had often voluntarily followed it...