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... taken from me ? What matters it whether my horse is stolen , or the value of him in my labor be taken from me ? Do we talk of violating the rights 112 ROBERT J. BRECKENRIDGE .
... taken from me ? What matters it whether my horse is stolen , or the value of him in my labor be taken from me ? Do we talk of violating the rights 112 ROBERT J. BRECKENRIDGE .
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... taken of it . " Mr. , of Virginia , amongst others , related the following : - " I frequently saw the mistress of the family beat the woman who performed the kitchen work , with a stick two feet and a half long , and nearly as thick as ...
... taken of it . " Mr. , of Virginia , amongst others , related the following : - " I frequently saw the mistress of the family beat the woman who performed the kitchen work , with a stick two feet and a half long , and nearly as thick as ...
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... taken care of , but their complaints are usually not much heeded . A physician told me that he was employed by a planter last winter to go to a plantation of his in the country , as many of the negroes were sick . Says he " I found them ...
... taken care of , but their complaints are usually not much heeded . A physician told me that he was employed by a planter last winter to go to a plantation of his in the country , as many of the negroes were sick . Says he " I found them ...
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... taken up , placed in the cart in which Lucy and Frank had been brought to the gallows , and conveyed to the dwelling of his late master , where he was confined to the house and his bed more than three months , and was never worth much ...
... taken up , placed in the cart in which Lucy and Frank had been brought to the gallows , and conveyed to the dwelling of his late master , where he was confined to the house and his bed more than three months , and was never worth much ...
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... taken away , while the new and better stimulus of wages was not applied . The negroes were aware that if they worked well they should not be paid for it , and that if they worked ill they could not be flogged , as they had formerly been ...
... taken away , while the new and better stimulus of wages was not applied . The negroes were aware that if they worked well they should not be paid for it , and that if they worked ill they could not be flogged , as they had formerly been ...
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Страница 104 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Страница 191 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Страница 9 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?
Страница 196 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Страница 226 - Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy ; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Страница 9 - ... magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be, that Providence has J _ not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? . ~ The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which / ennobles human nature. Alas ! is it rendered impossible...
Страница 226 - If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
Страница 227 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Страница 13 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Страница 222 - He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.