The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itScholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1860 - 424 pages |
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Page 237 - Receive our air, that moment they are free. They touch our country and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your Empire, that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too I
Page 266 - Thou shalt love thy neighbor as, thyself." " Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty ; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor." " The wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
Page 267 - I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right^ and fear not me, saith the Lord of
Page 185 - There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people, produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions—tho most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to
Page 185 - man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him. This is so true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion, indeed, are ever seen to labor. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we have
Page 266 - ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor : behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine ; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth
Page 188 - brethren. When the measure of their tears shall be full, when their groans shall have involved Heaven itself in darkness, doubtless a God of justice will awaken to their distress. Nothing is more certainly written in the Book of Fate, than that this people shall be free.
Page 237 - It is the curse of Kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humors for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life, And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humor than advised respect.
Page 267 - a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." " Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall ay,
Page 240 - an Indian or African sun may have burnt upon him ; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery, the moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust