 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 pages
...his slaves. I deny his right — I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our common nature rise in rebellion against it. Be the...me of laws that sanction such a claim ! There is a Ian above all the enactments of human codes — the same throughout the -world — the same in all... | |
 | Charles Grandison Parsons - Enslaved persons - 1855 - 334 pages
...orators, "Be the appeal made to the understanding or the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it. There is a law above all the enactments of human codes,...same throughout the world, — the same in all times, — and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loath rapine, and abhor... | |
 | Gerrit Smith - Speeches in Congress - 1855 - 436 pages
...feelings, of our common nature, rise in rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to the understanding, or the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it....In vain, you tell me of laws, that sanction such a crime ! There is a law above all the enactments of human codes — the same throughout the world —... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Sermons, American - 1855 - 464 pages
...bondage ; of his haughty scorn of any Law higher than what trading politicians enact in the Capitol ? " There is a Law above all the enactments of human codes, the same throughout the world, the same in all time ; " " it is the law written by the L_ finger of God upon the heart of man ; and by that law, unchangeable... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 722 pages
...his slaves. I deny the right — I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our common nature, rise in rebellion against it. Be the...same throughout the world, the same in all times; it is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man ; and by that law, unchangeable and... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1856 - 348 pages
...in his slaves. I deny the right--! acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our common nature, rise in rebellion against it. Be the...sentence is the same that rejects it, In vain you te!l me of laws that sanction such a claim I There is a law above all the enactments of human codes... | |
 | Gerrit Smith - Speeches in Congress - 1855 - 442 pages
...his slaves. I deny the right. I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings, of our common nature, rise in rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to the understanding, or the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it. In vain, you tell me of laws, that sanction such... | |
 | 1857 - 280 pages
...his slaves; I deny the right; I acknowledge not the property : the principles, the feelings, of our common nature rise in rebellion against it. Be the...claim. There is a law above all the enactments of human codes—the same throughout the world, the same in all times—such as it was before the daring genius... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Abolitionists - 1857 - 348 pages
...not the property. The principles, the feelings, ofour common nature, rise in rebellion against tence is the same that rejects it. In vain you tell me of...same throughout the world, the same in all times— sur.h as it was before the daring genius of Columbus pierced the night of ages, and opened to one world... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 432 pages
...not of the property of the planter in his slaves. I deny the right ; I acknowledge not the property. In vain you tell me of laws that sanction such a claim....the same throughout the world, the same in all times ; it is the law written by the finger of God on the hearts of men ; and by that law, unchangeable and... | |
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The principles, the feelings of onr common nature rise in rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to the understanding or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it. 
