Echoes of Harper's Ferry ...James Redpath Thayer and Eldridge, 1860 - 513 páginas A collection of anti-slavery papers, poems, etc., commemorative of John Brown. |
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... never liberated a Slave Nation in this world , and they never will . Pharaoh can afford to be laughed at , and cursed , and denounced , with Israelites selling at two thousand dollars a head . It requires Moses , with the plagues at his ...
... never liberated a Slave Nation in this world , and they never will . Pharaoh can afford to be laughed at , and cursed , and denounced , with Israelites selling at two thousand dollars a head . It requires Moses , with the plagues at his ...
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... never able to find more than a score or so of re- cruits whom he would accept , and only about a dozen , among them his sons , in whom he had perfect faith . When he was here , some years ago , he showed to a few a little manuscript ...
... never able to find more than a score or so of re- cruits whom he would accept , and only about a dozen , among them his sons , in whom he had perfect faith . When he was here , some years ago , he showed to a few a little manuscript ...
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... never lacked . When the time came , few men were found willing to lay down their lives in defence of what they knew to be wrong ; they did not like that this should be their last act in this world . But to make haste to his last act ...
... never lacked . When the time came , few men were found willing to lay down their lives in defence of what they knew to be wrong ; they did not like that this should be their last act in this world . But to make haste to his last act ...
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... never heard of this particular lumber till lately . And yet I hear of Northern men , women , and chil- dren , by families , buying a " life membership " in such so- cieties as these ; -a life - membership in the grave ! You can get ...
... never heard of this particular lumber till lately . And yet I hear of Northern men , women , and chil- dren , by families , buying a " life membership " in such so- cieties as these ; -a life - membership in the grave ! You can get ...
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... never have done with excommunicat- ing Christ while it exists ! Away with your broad and flat churches , and your narrow and tall churches ! Take a step forward , and invent a new style of out - houses . Invent a salt that will save you ...
... never have done with excommunicat- ing Christ while it exists ! Away with your broad and flat churches , and your narrow and tall churches ! Take a step forward , and invent a new style of out - houses . Invent a salt that will save you ...
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Abolitionist American American Slavery Anti-Slavery Applause believe bless blood brave called cause Cheers Christ Christian Christianity and Slavery Church conscience Constitution crime dare Dear death declared deed Divine duty earth emancipation enslaved evil faith Faneuil Hall fathers fear feel Freedom friends Fugitive Slave Law gentlemen gibbet glorious glory hand Harper's Ferry heart heaven hero honor human hundred iniquity insurrection John Brown justice Kansas labor land letter liberty live look Lord martyr Massachusetts master millions Miserere Moloch moral murder nation negro never noble North North Elba Northern oppressed Osawatomie outlaw's pride party peace political prayer principle prison protection Puritan race righteousness scaffold slave code slave power slaveholders Slavery soul South Southern spirit stand sympathy thee thing thou thought thousand tion to-day trust truth Union unto Virginia whole wickedness wrong
Pasajes populares
Página 394 - Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Página 334 - Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear ; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Página 409 - I'd be Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee ! •3. There let the way appear, Steps unto heaven ; All that thou sendest me, In mercy given; Angels to beckon me Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee ! 4.
Página 140 - I believe that to have interfered as I have done, as I have always freely admitted I have done, in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments — I submit ; so let it be done, Let me say one word further.
Página 443 - 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 409 - NEARER, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee ! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me ; Still all my song shall be, — Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee...
Página 228 - Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple : and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters : and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Página 438 - The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust.
Página 211 - His truth, they shook off this yoke of antichristian bondage, and as the Lord's free people joined themselves (by a covenant of the Lord) into a church estate, in the fellowship of the gospel, to walk in all His ways made known, or to be made known unto them, according to their best endeavours, whatsoever it should cost them, the Lord assisting them.8 And that it cost them something this ensuing history will declare.
Página 214 - Thus saith the LORD ; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor : and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.