The Anti-slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm, Količina 28Yale University Press, 1919 - 245 strani |
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abolish slavery abolition abolitionists Adams adopted American Anti-Slavery Society anti Anti-Slavery Society attack became began Birney Buchanan candidate Charles Sumner chief church citizens Coffin Congress constitution Court crusade debate declared defend Democrats doctrine Douglas early effect election emancipation England escape extended extension of slavery favor followed force Free-soil free-state friends Fugitive Slave Law furnished Garrison Government Governor held institution of slavery issue John Brown John Quincy Adams Kansas Kentucky later Lawrence Levi Coffin liberation Liberty party litionists Lundy ment Mexico Missouri Compromise mob violence negroes North Northern Ohio organized Osawatomie petition platform political President principles prisoners pro-slavery Quaker refused Republicans resolution Senator settlers slave-owners slave-trade slaveholders slavery slavery question South Carolina Southern leaders spirit stitution subject of slavery Sumner territorial Legislature Texas tion Underground Railroad United utterances Virginia vote Wakarusa War western Whigs William Lloyd Garrison women York
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Stran 7 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Stran 169 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory, it is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law.
Stran 55 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of...
Stran 6 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Stran 175 - The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight—I mean the harlot. Slavery.
Stran 225 - Whereas slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States, is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable war of one portion of its citizens upon another portion...
Stran 56 - We also maintain that there are, at the present time, the highest obligations resting upon the people of the free States, to remove slavery by moral and political action, as prescribed in the Constitution of the United States.
Stran 80 - Resolved, that all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.
Stran 12 - ... that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone, in this land of freedom, are degraded into perpetual bondage, and who, amidst the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groaning in servile subjection ; that you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from the character of the American people ; that you will promote mercy and justice...
Stran 226 - The foregoing articles shall not be construed so as in any way to encourage the overthrow of any State government, or of the general government of the United States, and we look to no dissolution of the Union ; but simply to amendment and repeal ; and our flag shall be the same that our fathers fought under in the Revolution.