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... reason why these grand avenues should bear names which seem to have been selected by a committee of young ladies from a boarding - school , rather than such as would commemorate the great men and actions of our past history ? It is true ...
... reason why these grand avenues should bear names which seem to have been selected by a committee of young ladies from a boarding - school , rather than such as would commemorate the great men and actions of our past history ? It is true ...
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... reason why local names derived from historical incidents are appropriate , and have commended themselves to the practice of mankind . Our progenitors , whom arbitrary power or re- ligious intolerance forced from their native land ...
... reason why local names derived from historical incidents are appropriate , and have commended themselves to the practice of mankind . Our progenitors , whom arbitrary power or re- ligious intolerance forced from their native land ...
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... reasons sufficiently obvious why this was hardly to be expected . The property in the lands , vested by patent in the colony , was , from time to time , transferred by the acts or orders of the Legislature to the several towns , in ...
... reasons sufficiently obvious why this was hardly to be expected . The property in the lands , vested by patent in the colony , was , from time to time , transferred by the acts or orders of the Legislature to the several towns , in ...
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... reason for 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 ...
... reason for 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 ...
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... reasons for joining the King's Province to Rhode Island , presented to Lord Cla- rendon in a petition drawn up five years before the letter to Mason was written . It is there alleged , that the grant " which Mr. Welles ( Welde ) , under ...
... reasons for joining the King's Province to Rhode Island , presented to Lord Cla- rendon in a petition drawn up five years before the letter to Mason was written . It is there alleged , that the grant " which Mr. Welles ( Welde ) , under ...
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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,...