Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 6The Society, 1863 - Massachusetts |
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... adopted . An admirable portrait of President John Adams was presented to the Society , accompanied by the following letter : - PITTSFIELD , 7th April , 1862 . DEAR SIR , -I have the pleasure to send herewith a portrait of the venerable ...
... adopted . An admirable portrait of President John Adams was presented to the Society , accompanied by the following letter : - PITTSFIELD , 7th April , 1862 . DEAR SIR , -I have the pleasure to send herewith a portrait of the venerable ...
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... adopted , during the present unhappy conflict , in relation to papers and documents , private and public , obtained by the soldiers in houses and offices in the States now in arms against the Government of the United States . After ...
... adopted , during the present unhappy conflict , in relation to papers and documents , private and public , obtained by the soldiers in houses and offices in the States now in arms against the Government of the United States . After ...
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... adopted for their present associations rather than for their Indian origin . Hereditary dislike of arbitrary power may be plainly dis- cernible in the choice of names affixed to some of our streets after the fall of the Stuarts . Orange ...
... adopted for their present associations rather than for their Indian origin . Hereditary dislike of arbitrary power may be plainly dis- cernible in the choice of names affixed to some of our streets after the fall of the Stuarts . Orange ...
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... adoption of the State Consti- tution , thirteen out of nineteen have their names attached to streets or places , and eleven out of our fifteen mayors . We have of celebrities connected with the earlier annals of Boston , Blackstone and ...
... adoption of the State Consti- tution , thirteen out of nineteen have their names attached to streets or places , and eleven out of our fifteen mayors . We have of celebrities connected with the earlier annals of Boston , Blackstone and ...
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... adopting , and for continuing to maintain , that opinion : but having given way to a senior member , who rose at the same moment to speak on the subject , it so happened that I had not the good fortune afterwards to obtain a hearing ...
... adopting , and for continuing to maintain , that opinion : but having given way to a senior member , who rose at the same moment to speak on the subject , it so happened that I had not the good fortune afterwards to obtain a hearing ...
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Page 92 - The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year 1808, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
Page 128 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest...
Page 110 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, (paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted,) shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Page 102 - I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.
Page 91 - ... so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; M Howard and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced p.
Page 115 - I never mean, unless some particular circumstance should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase ; it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.
Page 95 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...
Page 130 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Page 127 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal.
Page 103 - The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was, unhappily, introduced in their infant state. But previous to the enfranchisement of the slaves we have, it is necessary to exclude all further importations from Africa. Yet our repeated attempts to effect this, by prohibitions, and by imposing duties which might amount to a prohibition, have been hitherto defeated by his Majesty's negative ; thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few British corsairs,...