The Pro-slavery Argument: As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern StatesLippincott, Grambo, & Company, 1853 - 490 páginas |
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... objects of commiseration . They repeat , as the fundamental maxim of our civil policy , that all men are born free and equal , and quote from our Declaration of Independence , " that men are endowed by their Creator with certain ...
... objects of commiseration . They repeat , as the fundamental maxim of our civil policy , that all men are born free and equal , and quote from our Declaration of Independence , " that men are endowed by their Creator with certain ...
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... object of all animated and sentient beings . To this he has directed their aspirations and efforts , and we feel that we thwart his benevolent pur- poses when we destroy or impede that happiness . This is the only natural right of man ...
... object of all animated and sentient beings . To this he has directed their aspirations and efforts , and we feel that we thwart his benevolent pur- poses when we destroy or impede that happiness . This is the only natural right of man ...
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... object . But remedy there is none , unless it be to abandon their civilization . This inequality , this vice , this misery , this Slavery , is the price of England's civilization . They suffer the lot of humanity . But perhaps we may be ...
... object . But remedy there is none , unless it be to abandon their civilization . This inequality , this vice , this misery , this Slavery , is the price of England's civilization . They suffer the lot of humanity . But perhaps we may be ...
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... object of punishment be to produce obedience or reforma- tion , with the least permanent injury , it is the best method of punishment . But is it not intolerable , that a being formed in the image of his Maker , should be degraded by ...
... object of punishment be to produce obedience or reforma- tion , with the least permanent injury , it is the best method of punishment . But is it not intolerable , that a being formed in the image of his Maker , should be degraded by ...
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... object be to screen a fellow slave , the act bears some semblance of fidelity , and perhaps truth could not be told without breach of confidence . I know not how to characterize the falsehood of a slave . It has often been said by the ...
... object be to screen a fellow slave , the act bears some semblance of fidelity , and perhaps truth could not be told without breach of confidence . I know not how to characterize the falsehood of a slave . It has often been said by the ...
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Página 453 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Página 107 - Servants obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God...
Página 318 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen for ever : but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Página 167 - There is a land, of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven, o'er all the world beside...
Página 16 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession.
Página 259 - All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Página 158 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Página 55 - It is of mangling and clear-starching, of the price of coals, or of potatoes. The questions of the child, that should be the very outpourings of curiosity in idleness, are marked with forecast and melancholy providence. It has come to be a woman before it was a child. It has learned to go to market; it chaffers, it haggles, it envies, it murmurs; it is knowing, acute, sharpened ; it never prattles.
Página 453 - Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit These things teach and exhort.
Página 461 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.