Anti-slavery Manual: Containing a Collection of Facts and Arguments on American SlaveryS.W. Benedict, 1837 - 142 páginas |
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... COLLECTION OF FACTS AND ARGUMENTS ON AMERICAN SLAVERY . BY REV . LA ROY SUNDERLAND . Second Edition - Improved . NEW YORK : · PRINTED BY S. W. BENEDICT . 1837 . 887488 U.S. 5263,148.2 A Entered according to Act of Congress.
... COLLECTION OF FACTS AND ARGUMENTS ON AMERICAN SLAVERY . BY REV . LA ROY SUNDERLAND . Second Edition - Improved . NEW YORK : · PRINTED BY S. W. BENEDICT . 1837 . 887488 U.S. 5263,148.2 A Entered according to Act of Congress.
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... Roy Sunderland. 887488 U.S. 5263,148.2 A Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year 1837 , BY REV . LA ROY SUNDERLAND , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of New - York . PREFACE . In whatever points of view we look at.
... Roy Sunderland. 887488 U.S. 5263,148.2 A Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year 1837 , BY REV . LA ROY SUNDERLAND , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of New - York . PREFACE . In whatever points of view we look at.
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... according to the act ( of 1800 ) regulating emancipation , it shall be lawful for any person whosoever to seize and convert to his or her own use , and to keep as his or her property the said slave so illegally emancipated or set free ...
... according to the act ( of 1800 ) regulating emancipation , it shall be lawful for any person whosoever to seize and convert to his or her own use , and to keep as his or her property the said slave so illegally emancipated or set free ...
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... according to the ratio of increase between 1820 , and 1830 , there must have been in 1835 , not less than 2,245,144 slaves in these United States . The following table will show the increase of the Whites and Blacks , on this ratio , in ...
... according to the ratio of increase between 1820 , and 1830 , there must have been in 1835 , not less than 2,245,144 slaves in these United States . The following table will show the increase of the Whites and Blacks , on this ratio , in ...
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... according to the directions of this act , shall for the first offence , suffer such punishment as the said justice or justices shall , in his or their discretion think fit , not extending to life or limb ; and for the second of- fence ...
... according to the directions of this act , shall for the first offence , suffer such punishment as the said justice or justices shall , in his or their discretion think fit , not extending to life or limb ; and for the second of- fence ...
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Página 127 - The printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the Legislature, or any branch of government ; and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man ; and every citizen may freely speak, write, and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Página 31 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his 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 manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Página 127 - In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.
Página 123 - ... empowered to seize or arrest such fugitive from labor, and to take him or her before any judge of the Circuit or District Courts of the United States, residing or being within the state, or before any magistrate of a county, city, or town corporate, wherein such seizure or arrest shall be made...
Página 123 - ... and upon proof, to the satisfaction of such judge or magistrate, either by oral testimony or affidavit taken before and certified by a magistrate of any such State or Territory, that the person so seized or arrested doth, under the laws of the State or Territory from which he or she fled...
Página 125 - Whereas the traffic in slaves is irreconcilable with the principles of humanity and justice, and whereas both His Majesty and the United States are desirous of continuing their efforts to promote its entire abolition, it is hereby agreed that both the contracting parties shall use their best endeavors to accomplish so desirable an object.
Página 49 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council : but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Página 30 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, — the most unremitting despotism on the one part and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 17 - Any person who shall maliciously dismember, or deprive a slave of life shall suffer such punishment as would be inflicted in case the like offence had been committed on a free white person, and on the like proof, except in case of insurrection of such slave.
Página 129 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.