Three Years in North America, Volume 2J. & J. Harper, 1833 - 337 páginas |
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... extent , may offer a more certain repose from his troubles . “ Because , It will have a like tendency to banish our citizens . The allurements presented by other situations are every day thinning their number . To superadd a fresh ...
... extent , may offer a more certain repose from his troubles . “ Because , It will have a like tendency to banish our citizens . The allurements presented by other situations are every day thinning their number . To superadd a fresh ...
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... extent of seacoast from 150 to 200 miles in length , and enjoys a climate well adapted to the negro constitution . The society founded its colony under the denomination of Liberia , established towns , laid off planta- tions for the ...
... extent of seacoast from 150 to 200 miles in length , and enjoys a climate well adapted to the negro constitution . The society founded its colony under the denomination of Liberia , established towns , laid off planta- tions for the ...
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... extent . I travelled some time ago in the stage from Schooley's Mountain to New - York , with a gentleman who was proceeding thither with a view to make a purchase of a large tract of country in North Carolina , which is of little or no ...
... extent . I travelled some time ago in the stage from Schooley's Mountain to New - York , with a gentleman who was proceeding thither with a view to make a purchase of a large tract of country in North Carolina , which is of little or no ...
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... extent is unquestionably true . In the journey from Richmond to the neighbourhood of Charleston , a very visible change in the appearance and manners of the people has taken place . Slaves become more numerous in proceeding towards the ...
... extent is unquestionably true . In the journey from Richmond to the neighbourhood of Charleston , a very visible change in the appearance and manners of the people has taken place . Slaves become more numerous in proceeding towards the ...
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... extent of country , from eight to eighteen feet high ; and the summits of some of the spurs of the Alleghanies , which project into this state , are between 3000 and 4000 feet above the sea . Table Mountain , a rock of granite naked on ...
... extent of country , from eight to eighteen feet high ; and the summits of some of the spurs of the Alleghanies , which project into this state , are between 3000 and 4000 feet above the sea . Table Mountain , a rock of granite naked on ...
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Página 120 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days: There, ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere...
Página 120 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Página 76 - When the measure of their tears shall be full, when their groans shall have involved heaven itself in darkness, doubtless, a God of justice will awaken to their distress, and by diffusing light and liberality among their oppressors, or, at length, by his exterminating thunder, manifest his attention to the things of this world, and that they are not left to the guidance of a blind fatality.
Página 93 - We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Página 27 - Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects? that the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment, may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever?
Página 147 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Página 76 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Página 27 - The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle.
Página 31 - Because attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken the bands of Society. If it be difficult to execute any law which is not generally deemed necessary or salutary, what must be the case, where it is deemed invalid and dangerous? And what may be the effect of so striking an example of impotency in the Government, on its general authority?
Página 257 - I now Declare, to you and to the world, that Man, up to this hour, has been, in all parts of the earth, a slave to a TRINITY of the most monstrous evils that could be combined to inflict mental and physical evil upon his whole race. ' 1 refer to Private, or Individual Property — absurd and irrational Systems of Religion — and Marriage, founded on Individual property combined with some one of these irrational systems of religion.