A Discourse on Slavery in the United States: Delivered in Brooklyn, July 3, 1831Garrison and Knapp, 1832 - 29 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 3 - And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
الصفحة 29 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is Just, And that his Justice will not sleep forever.
الصفحة 5 - The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
الصفحة 23 - God hath made of one blood all nations of men.' It also strikes at the root of the whole account of the entrance of sin and death through the first progenitor of mankind, and would equally invalidate the universality of the commission of the apostles to proclaim the way of recovery of all nations through the righteousness of...
الصفحة 15 - ... imitative animal. 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. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his morals and manners undepraved by such circumstances.
الصفحة 16 - The slaves are men. They have within them that unextinguishable thirst for freedom, which is born in man. They are already writhing in their shackles. They will, one day, throw them off with vindictive violence, if we do not unloose them.
الصفحة 10 - OF THE STARS AND STRIPES It was nearly one year after the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor for the support of the Declaration of Independence that the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew, emblematic of the Mother Country, which had formed the union of the Continental Union flag (364), were discarded and replaced by a union composed of white stars in a blue field, "representing a new constellation...
الصفحة 22 - PAMPA BEFORE leaving the United States, Colonel Roosevelt and I determined that we should see as much of the great Argentine Republic as possible. We wished to study it and its people in the north and the south, in the east and in the west. For we felt that we could not, by taking the usual direct route from Buenos Aires to Santiago, do justice to a country whose area is more than a third of that of the continental United States. For this reason, when we were ready to start for Chile, we went thither,...
الصفحة 18 - We have the uniform testimony of writers, and what is more than all, the authority of Park, that the negro character is mild, gentle, and generous, not prone to resentments, and equally ready to forget, and reluctant to inflict an injury. This is far from being a warlike, or vicious character ; such odious traits, as it now possesses, have been engrafted into it by hands better practised than their own in the devices of wickedness ; and these must be removed by a process as gradual as that, by which...
الصفحة 16 - The Almighty has no attributes which can take side with us in such a contest.