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... minds that our Associa- tion founded the Pennsylvania Hall on no narrow , sectarian , or party views but that it was what it purported to be , a hall for free discussion . And in order to make the reader more fully acquainted with the ...
... minds that our Associa- tion founded the Pennsylvania Hall on no narrow , sectarian , or party views but that it was what it purported to be , a hall for free discussion . And in order to make the reader more fully acquainted with the ...
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... mind to the lovers of Free Discussion . The honor done me by your Board of Managers is gratefully acknow- ledged by me ; such , however , are my circumstances , and so pressing are the demands on my time , that I cannot accept the ...
... mind to the lovers of Free Discussion . The honor done me by your Board of Managers is gratefully acknow- ledged by me ; such , however , are my circumstances , and so pressing are the demands on my time , that I cannot accept the ...
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... mind , without giving to many of them great offence . — This would be impossible . It would have been , perhaps , more discreet to answer that , independent of all other considerations , my detention here in the discharge of ...
... mind , without giving to many of them great offence . — This would be impossible . It would have been , perhaps , more discreet to answer that , independent of all other considerations , my detention here in the discharge of ...
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... mind . Liberty is not matter of indulgence ; the moment it is , it ceases to possess its essential qualities . Freedom loses its character , when it is dependent upon the will , either of the few , or the many . In order to its ...
... mind . Liberty is not matter of indulgence ; the moment it is , it ceases to possess its essential qualities . Freedom loses its character , when it is dependent upon the will , either of the few , or the many . In order to its ...
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... mind , or , if it should , it is like the lightning in the midnight storm , serving only to make the gloom more terrific , the darkness more intense . Moral or intellectual improvement , without ulterior views to freedom , instead of ...
... mind , or , if it should , it is like the lightning in the midnight storm , serving only to make the gloom more terrific , the darkness more intense . Moral or intellectual improvement , without ulterior views to freedom , instead of ...
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abolition abolitionism abolitionists adjourned adopted American Anti-Slavery Society American Women Anti-Slavery Society attend blessing blood Board of Managers building called cause character Christian colonization colonizationists colored Congress Constitution Convention of American Councils crime DANIEL NEALL destroy destruction doctrine drunkards duty emancipation erected evil excitement exercise fathers fear feel fellow citizens free discussion freedom freedom of speech friends give heart honor human influence invitation JOSEPH RITNER justice labor land laws letter Liberia liberty Lucretia Mott Mayor measures meeting mind morning nation never o'clock object occasion opinion oppressed outrage PAUL BROWN peace Pennsylvania Hall Association persons Peter Mathias Philadelphia political portion present principles resolution respect respectfully Samuel Webb sentiments slave slaveholders slavery South Southern speech spirit sylvania thing thousand tion truth virtue voice voluntary associations WALTER FORWARD WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON witness
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Страница 58 - Congress, shall never be construed to authorize the passage of any law, and that no law shall be passed in conformity thereto, by which any citizen of either of the States in this Union shall be excluded from the enjoyment of any of the privileges and immunities to which such citizen is entitled under the Constitution of the United States...
Страница 180 - The citizens have a right in a peaceable manner to assemble together for their common good, and to apply to those invested with the powers of government for redress of grievances or other proper purposes by petition, address, or remonstrance.
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Страница 58 - To prohibit the introduction of any slave, or the offspring of any slave, who heretofore may have been, or who hereafter may be, imported from any foreign country into the United States, or any Territory thereof, in contravention of any existing statute of the United States; and, 4.
Страница 72 - caution,' and ' prudence,' and 'judiciousness.' Sir, I hare learned to hate those words. Whenever we attempt to imitate our great Exemplar, and press the truth of God, in all its plainness, upon the conscience, why, we are very imprudent ; because, forsooth, a great excitement will ensue. Sir, slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.
Страница 125 - Oh ! tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon...