The Progress and Intelligence of Americans: Proof of Slavery, from the First Chapter of Genesis, as Founded on Organic Law; Progress of Slavery South and South-West, with Free Labor Advancing, Through the Acquistion [sic] of Territory; Advantages Enumerated and Explained1862 - African Americans - 508 pages |
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... AMERICA , AND OF THE WORLD , THIS WORK IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY ITS AUTHOR , ASKING THEM ITS PROTECTION , UNDER THE ÆGIS OF ETERNAL LIBERTY , AND FREEDOM TO THE WHITE MAN . Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862 ...
... AMERICA , AND OF THE WORLD , THIS WORK IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY ITS AUTHOR , ASKING THEM ITS PROTECTION , UNDER THE ÆGIS OF ETERNAL LIBERTY , AND FREEDOM TO THE WHITE MAN . Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862 ...
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... America , advocates progressive slavery South and Southwest , as we may acquire territory . This he clearly proves to be of incalculable advantage to the free States , and no less , but as advantageous to the slave States , from the ...
... America , advocates progressive slavery South and Southwest , as we may acquire territory . This he clearly proves to be of incalculable advantage to the free States , and no less , but as advantageous to the slave States , from the ...
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... America , we are unable , at present , to see any mate- rial change towards a high stage of social and consti- tutional liberty ; nor do we discern it in their arts and sciences , over what they possessed at the period of their ...
... America , we are unable , at present , to see any mate- rial change towards a high stage of social and consti- tutional liberty ; nor do we discern it in their arts and sciences , over what they possessed at the period of their ...
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... America , no one can question . As a further evidence in confirmation of this position , when we survey the labors and work- ings of the lower and lowest classes of animals , what is the progress of those which we see around us , over ...
... America , no one can question . As a further evidence in confirmation of this position , when we survey the labors and work- ings of the lower and lowest classes of animals , what is the progress of those which we see around us , over ...
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... America , in the provinces or departments of Brazil and Cuba , where slavery has existed nearly , and over three hundred years ; and in other portions of America where they are now free ; for full demon- strations we have of such in ...
... America , in the provinces or departments of Brazil and Cuba , where slavery has existed nearly , and over three hundred years ; and in other portions of America where they are now free ; for full demon- strations we have of such in ...
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Page 111 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 211 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 108 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 110 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Page 108 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Page 107 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night: and the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 107 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 109 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 480 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 480 - That the new dogma, that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States, is a dangerous political heresy, at variance with the explicit provisions of that instrument itself, with contemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent; is revolutionary in its tendency and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country.