Thoughts on African Colonization, Or, An Impartial Exhibition of the Doctrines, Principles and Purposes of the American Colonization Society: Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of Color |
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... remain among us , we must be their enemies ! -Every honest man should abhor the doctrine . ' In The Liberator ' of July 30 , 1831 , alluding to the pres- ent work , I used the following language : I shall be willing to stake my ...
... remain among us , we must be their enemies ! -Every honest man should abhor the doctrine . ' In The Liberator ' of July 30 , 1831 , alluding to the pres- ent work , I used the following language : I shall be willing to stake my ...
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... remain - for they are our countrymen . Would foreigners submit ? No - not for an instant . Why should the American people make this enormous expenditure of life and money ? Why not use the funds of the Society to instruct and elevate ...
... remain - for they are our countrymen . Would foreigners submit ? No - not for an instant . Why should the American people make this enormous expenditure of life and money ? Why not use the funds of the Society to instruct and elevate ...
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... remain a nation . * This appeal ( which evin- ces an intimate acquaintance with human nature and much fore- sight ) induced the attack to which allusion has been made . A * Memoir of American Colonists - vide ' The African Repository ...
... remain a nation . * This appeal ( which evin- ces an intimate acquaintance with human nature and much fore- sight ) induced the attack to which allusion has been made . A * Memoir of American Colonists - vide ' The African Repository ...
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... remain a degraded class in this country . If educated any where , they must be educated in Africa . We must take them in their ignorance , and just released from bondage , and translate them to another continent 32 Introductory Remarks .
... remain a degraded class in this country . If educated any where , they must be educated in Africa . We must take them in their ignorance , and just released from bondage , and translate them to another continent 32 Introductory Remarks .
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... remain unconsulted . If more proof be demanded , it shall be given to the public . There is not a sound timber in this great Babel from the foundation to the roof , it is rotten and defec- tive . I shall not stop to interrogate the ...
... remain unconsulted . If more proof be demanded , it shall be given to the public . There is not a sound timber in this great Babel from the foundation to the roof , it is rotten and defec- tive . I shall not stop to interrogate the ...
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Page 9 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Page 40 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 151 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
Page 29 - On motion, resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the chairman and secretary, and delivered to Dr. DODS, and that they be published in the newspapers of the city. " JOHN P. HULBERT, Chairman.
Page 91 - Behold, the hire of the labourers 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 106 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 151 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Page 10 - Shall I not visit for these things ? saith the Lord : shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Page 3 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.