 Sir, by the eternal principles of natural justice no master in the State has a right to hold his slave in bondage for a single hour.  Political essays - Stran 172avtor: James Russell Lowell - 1904Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1827 - 564 strani
...reduced to a level with — nay, become themselves — the mere goods and chattels of their masters. Sir, by the eternal principles of natural justice,...right to hold his slave in bondage for a single hour; but the law of the land, which, (however oppressive and unjust, however inconsistent with the great... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 716 strani
...a speech before the Maryland House of Delegate*., in I7.-:0, on the emancipation of slaves, said, ' Sir, by the eternal principles of natural justice,...right to hold his slave in bondage for a single hour.' " United States Gazette. A writer in the Gazette of the United States, Feb. 20th, 1790 (then the Government... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Weld - 1838 - 66 strani
...in a speech before the Maryland House of Delegates, in 1789, on the emancipation of slaves, said, " Sir, by the eternal principles of natural justice,...right to hold his slave in bondage for a single hour. I would as soon believe the incoherent talc of a schoolboy, who should tell me he had been frightened... | |
 | New England Yearly Meeting of Friends. Representative Meeting - 1841 - 150 strani
...introduced the system. We enlarge, invigorate and confirm it. Its continuance is as shameful as its origin. By the eternal principles of natural justice, no master...right to hold his slave in bondage for a single hour. Sir, the thing is impolitic ; never will your country be productive ; never will its agriculture, its... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1845 - 652 strani
...Pinkney, in a speech before the Maryland House of Delegates, 1789, on the emancipation of slaves, said : " Sir, by the eternal principles of natural justice...right to hold his slave in bondage for a single hour." If after such declarations against slavery, on the part of the nation, of states, and of distinguished... | |
 | 1841 - 432 strani
...winds of heaven found an eternal grave for the liberties of themselves and their posterity. » » * » Sir, by the eternal principles of natural justice, no master in the state IMS a right to hold his slave in bondage a single hour. » » « To me, sir, nothing for which I have... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1852 - 90 strani
...disgraceful traffic;" "as shameful in its continuance as in its origin;" and he openly declared, that, " By the eternal principles of natural justice, no master...the State has a right to hold his slave in bondage a single hour." Thus at this time spoke the NATION. The CHURCH also joined its voice. And here, amidst... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 434 strani
...would finally " work a decay of the spirit of liberty in the free States." Further, he said that, " by the eternal principles of natural justice, no master...the State has a right to hold his slave in bondage a single hour." In 1787, Luther Martin, of this State, said : — " Slavery is inconsistent with the... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 432 strani
...would finally " work a decay of the spirit of liberty in the free States." Further, he said that, " by the eternal principles of natural justice, no master...the State has a right to hold his slave in bondage a single hour." In 1787, Luther Martin, of this State, said :— " Slavery is inconsistent with the... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1859 - 356 strani
...disgraceful traffic;" "as shameful in its continuance as in its origin ; " and he openly declared, that, " by the eternal principles of natural justice, no master...the state has a right to hold his slave in bondage a single hour." And yet these convictions are now placed under formal ban by politicians of the hour.... | |
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