The Pro-slavery Argument: As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern StatesLippincott, Grambo, & Company, 1853 - 490 pagini |
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Pagina 15
... slave trade has given , and will give , the boon of existence to millions and millions in our country , who would otherwise never have enjoyed it , and the enjoyment of their existence is better provided for while it lasts . Or if , for ...
... slave trade has given , and will give , the boon of existence to millions and millions in our country , who would otherwise never have enjoyed it , and the enjoyment of their existence is better provided for while it lasts . Or if , for ...
Pagina 16
... slave trade , practised hor- rible cruelties and inflicted much suffering - as no doubt they did , though these have been much exaggerated - for merely selfish purposes , and with no view to future good , they were morally most guilty ...
... slave trade , practised hor- rible cruelties and inflicted much suffering - as no doubt they did , though these have been much exaggerated - for merely selfish purposes , and with no view to future good , they were morally most guilty ...
Pagina 17
... slave trade . No speculation of future good to be brought about , could compensate the enormous amount of evil it occasioned . If we should refer to the common moral sense of mankind , as determined by their conduct in all ages and ...
... slave trade . No speculation of future good to be brought about , could compensate the enormous amount of evil it occasioned . If we should refer to the common moral sense of mankind , as determined by their conduct in all ages and ...
Pagina 100
... slave trade . That is no longer a question . Doubtless great evils arise from it as it has been , and is now conducted : unneces- sary wars and cruel kidnapping in Africa : the most shocking barbarities in the middle passage : and ...
... slave trade . That is no longer a question . Doubtless great evils arise from it as it has been , and is now conducted : unneces- sary wars and cruel kidnapping in Africa : the most shocking barbarities in the middle passage : and ...
Pagina 101
... slave trade : the first was , that it was impossible — the rest he need not give . " Can you say to yourself , or to the world , that this first ob- jection of Mr. Grosvenor has been yet confuted ? It was esti- mated at the commencement ...
... slave trade : the first was , that it was impossible — the rest he need not give . " Can you say to yourself , or to the world , that this first ob- jection of Mr. Grosvenor has been yet confuted ? It was esti- mated at the commencement ...
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Pagina 107 - Servants obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God...
Pagina 156 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession.
Pagina 105 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Pagina 256 - Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead ; Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Pagina 255 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Pagina 256 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.
Pagina 413 - And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you today : for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Pagina 158 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Pagina 455 - The parent storms ; the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Pagina 55 - It is of mangling and clear-starching, of the price of coals, or of potatoes. The questions of the child, that should be the very outpourings of curiosity in idleness, are marked with forecast and melancholy providence. It has come to be a woman before it was a child. It has learned to go to market; it chaffers, it haggles, it envies, it murmurs; it is knowing, acute, sharpened ; it never prattles.