 slavery. If we cannot reduce this wished-for reformation to practice, let us treat the unhappy victims with lenity. It is the furthest advance we can make towards justice. It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion, to show that it is at variance...  Views of American Slavery, Taken a Century Ago - Stran 126avtor: Anthony Benezet - 1858 - 138 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1804 - 714 strani
...a pity for their unhappy lot, and an abhorrence for flavery. ' If we cannot reduce this withed for reformation to practice, let us treat the unhappy victims with lenity. It is the furtheft. advance we can make towards jufticeV It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion, to... | |
 | Roberts Vaux - 1817 - 168 strani
...let us treat the unhappy vietims with lenity. It is the furthest advanee we ean make towards justiee. It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion, to show that it is at varianee with that law, whieh warrants slavery. I know not where to atop. I eould say many things on... | |
 | 1818 - 396 strani
...their unhappy lot, and an abhorrence of slavery. If we cannot reduce this wished for reformation f'o practice, let us treat the unhappy victims with lenity. It is the furthest advance we can ' make toward justice. It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion, to show that it is at variance with... | |
 | John Comly, Isaac Comly - 1835 - 398 strani
...treat the unhappy victims with lenity;—it is the farthest advance we can make towards justice;—it is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion, to...that it is at variance with that law which warrants sla» very. Here is an instance that silent meetings (the scoff of reverend doctors) have done that... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 248 strani
...slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot, and our abhorrence for slavery. If we cannot reduce this wished for reformation to practice, let us treat the unhappy victims with lenity. It is the furtherest advance we can make towards justice, it is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion,... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 716 strani
...slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot, and our abhorrence for slavery. If we cannot reduce this wished for reformation to practice, let us treat the unhappy victims with lenity. It is the furtherest advance we can make towards justice, it is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion,... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 244 strani
...their unhappy lot, and our abhorrence for slavery. If we cannot reduce this wished for reformation j to practice, let us treat the unhappy victims with lenity. It is the . furtherest advance we can make towards justice, it is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion,... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1839 - 160 strani
...slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot, and our abhorrence for slavery. If we cannot reduce this wished for reformation to practice, let us treat the unhappy victims with lenity. It is the furthermost advance we can make towards justice, it is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion,... | |
 | Rufus Wheelwright Clark - 1850 - 104 strani
...slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot, and our abhorrence for slavery. If we cannot reduce this wished for reformation to practice, let us treat the unhappy...at variance with that law which warrants slavery. I know not where to stop. I could say many things on the subject, a serious view of which gives a gloomy... | |
 | Charles Elliott - 1850 - 392 strani
...rectitude of her precepts, and to lament my own want of conformity to them." " It is a debt we owe the purity of our religion, to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery." (Letter to Anthony Benezet.) Patrick Henry.—" Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased... | |
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