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... regard for public decency forbade any final step on so perilous a subject in the very first year of its agitation . We fix our eyes on the single circumstance , that the public mind of Virginia permitted , nay encouraged , the open ...
... regard for public decency forbade any final step on so perilous a subject in the very first year of its agitation . We fix our eyes on the single circumstance , that the public mind of Virginia permitted , nay encouraged , the open ...
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... regard solely to the economical principles , is adapted to be for a long term of years a prosperous slave labour State . It must pos- sess an extremely rich soil , hence under most circumstances be a comparatively small country ...
... regard solely to the economical principles , is adapted to be for a long term of years a prosperous slave labour State . It must pos- sess an extremely rich soil , hence under most circumstances be a comparatively small country ...
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... regard to the crops of tobac- co of the western states , we can say with confidence , that there is a regular annual increase in quantity , with great improvement in its curing and man- agement ; so that it is fast taking the place of ...
... regard to the crops of tobac- co of the western states , we can say with confidence , that there is a regular annual increase in quantity , with great improvement in its curing and man- agement ; so that it is fast taking the place of ...
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... But we are determined to regard the State as ONE , aud the ills suffered by one part as the common calamity , proper for the deliberation of every county . 1 England : but if they cannot do it to 14 [ March , SLAVERY QUESTION IN VIRGINIA .
... But we are determined to regard the State as ONE , aud the ills suffered by one part as the common calamity , proper for the deliberation of every county . 1 England : but if they cannot do it to 14 [ March , SLAVERY QUESTION IN VIRGINIA .
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... regard the increase of the slaves at any probable rate as full of danger . It is the simple case of a distinct race of people within our bosom , now nearly equal , soon to be more numerous than ourselves , exposed to every temptation ...
... regard the increase of the slaves at any probable rate as full of danger . It is the simple case of a distinct race of people within our bosom , now nearly equal , soon to be more numerous than ourselves , exposed to every temptation ...
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Página 196 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Página 244 - The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last, faltering accents whispered praise.
Página 197 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know, that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Página 197 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Página 53 - But without a parable spake he not unto them : and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
Página 49 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Página 227 - And whereas, the same noble and extended policy, and the same fraternal and affectionate sentiments, which originally determined the citizens of this Commonwealth to unite with their brethren of the other States, in establishing a federal government, cannot but be felt with equal force now as motives to lay aside every inferior consideration, and to concur in such...
Página 80 - He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of heaven, To serve the devil in...
Página 13 - ... if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp...
Página 228 - Happy art thou, O Israel : who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency ! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.