An Appeal to Loyal Religious People in Behalf of Kentucky1865 - 2 pages |
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... Slavery , but now there is an open door for our Anti - Slavery Church if liberal help is afforded to put us in proper position . We are glad to have the privilege of sending William S. Bailey , Editor of The Free South , the pioneer of ...
... Slavery , but now there is an open door for our Anti - Slavery Church if liberal help is afforded to put us in proper position . We are glad to have the privilege of sending William S. Bailey , Editor of The Free South , the pioneer of ...
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... slave to free labor , can hardly expect that the freedmen will be content to live with them and cultivate their soil . The freedmen are ready and anxious to work . They do not expect to be idle , but they do expect to have their ...
... slave to free labor , can hardly expect that the freedmen will be content to live with them and cultivate their soil . The freedmen are ready and anxious to work . They do not expect to be idle , but they do expect to have their ...
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... slavery shall perish that the nation may live . It is of no consequence now to discuss the question whether slave and free institutions were essentially incompatable , and whether they might not have co - existed in a government framed ...
... slavery shall perish that the nation may live . It is of no consequence now to discuss the question whether slave and free institutions were essentially incompatable , and whether they might not have co - existed in a government framed ...
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... slaves I inherited , as rapidly as their rela- tions to others over whom I had no control would permit , I find myself still , nominally , an unwilling slave owner . And while all Christian people must loathe and execrate the accursed slave ...
... slaves I inherited , as rapidly as their rela- tions to others over whom I had no control would permit , I find myself still , nominally , an unwilling slave owner . And while all Christian people must loathe and execrate the accursed slave ...
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... slave forever . In the political and economical aspects of the subject we have only to look around us over the face of the country , to trace its statistics and glance at its history , to see in striking and melancholy prominence the ...
... slave forever . In the political and economical aspects of the subject we have only to look around us over the face of the country , to trace its statistics and glance at its history , to see in striking and melancholy prominence the ...
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Page 2 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye...
Page 6 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 2 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 2 - Whenever a statute gives a discretionary power to any person, to be exercised by him upon his own opinion of certain facts, it is a sound rule of construction, that the statute constitutes him the sole and exclusive judge of the existence of those facts.
Page 11 - I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation : and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Page 16 - ... meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him ; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Page 20 - States to leave any state, district, or place where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties; each of such persons shall be punished...
Page 21 - It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.
Page 7 - Section 1. Neither slavery nor Involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.