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... exist . And whilst the recollection of its claims oppresses me with a sense of my unworthiness , I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising its high- est functions ...
... exist . And whilst the recollection of its claims oppresses me with a sense of my unworthiness , I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising its high- est functions ...
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... exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral charac- ter of the government . On the broaching of this question , a general expression of despondency , of disbelief that any good will accrue from ...
... exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral charac- ter of the government . On the broaching of this question , a general expression of despondency , of disbelief that any good will accrue from ...
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... exists . It may be asserted , without fear of denial , that the former slaves of Jamaica are now as secure in all social rights , as freeborn Britons . " He further describes the erection of numerous churches , chapels and schools which ...
... exists . It may be asserted , without fear of denial , that the former slaves of Jamaica are now as secure in all social rights , as freeborn Britons . " He further describes the erection of numerous churches , chapels and schools which ...
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... exists ; the planters are not , excepting in rare examples , members of the legis- lature . The extent of the empire , and the mag- nitude and number of other questions crowding into court , keep this one in balance , and prevent it ...
... exists ; the planters are not , excepting in rare examples , members of the legis- lature . The extent of the empire , and the mag- nitude and number of other questions crowding into court , keep this one in balance , and prevent it ...
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... their pri- mary capacity take up their cause on this very ground , and say to the government of the State , and of the Union , that government exists to - defend the weak and the poor and the injured party 134 WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION.
... their pri- mary capacity take up their cause on this very ground , and say to the government of the State , and of the Union , that government exists to - defend the weak and the poor and the injured party 134 WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION.
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American better Boston brave Captain Charles Sumner church citizens civilization Colonel Concord Concord company Court crime defend duty emancipation EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION Emerson England English English Commonwealth event eyes F. B. Sanborn fame feel freedom friends FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW genius gentlemen give governor Granville Sharpe heart honor human immoral Indian interest Jamaica John Brown justice Kansas labor land lecture liberty lived look Lord Lord Mansfield mankind Massachusetts ment mind moral nation nature negro never occasion opinion party peace persons planters poem political poor principle question race regiment religion religious Samuel Hoar sentiment Shakspeare Simon Willard slavery slaves society soul speak speech spirit statute suffered Theodore Parker things thought tion Town Records trade truth Union virtue vote Webster whilst whole woman women words
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Seite 314 - Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.
Seite 611 - Yes: he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen; To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men.
Seite 588 - Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
Seite 396 - Boston Hymn READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY I, 1863 The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Seite 216 - Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us. Burns, Shelley, were with us— they watch from their graves! He alone breaks from the van and the freemen. He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves! We shall march prospering, — not thro...
Seite 215 - Of all we loved and honored, naught Save power remains, — A fallen angel's pride of thought, Still strong in chains. All else is gone : from those great eyes The soul has fled : When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead!
Seite 598 - I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I say I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons.
Seite 598 - I believe that to have interfered as I have done — as I have always freely admitted I have done — in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right Now,. if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with...
Seite 340 - Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil Amid the dust of books to find her, Content at last, for guerdon of their toil, With the cast mantle she hath left behind her.
Seite 1 - I like a church; I like a cowl; I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be.
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