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... justice , and not to advance and establish slavery , their most direct antag- onist , this is too much . Why , an East India Thug , whose education is to murder his fellow - creature and rifle his dead body , might reason as logically ...
... justice , and not to advance and establish slavery , their most direct antag- onist , this is too much . Why , an East India Thug , whose education is to murder his fellow - creature and rifle his dead body , might reason as logically ...
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... of the Union would be far too high and enviable for his descriptive powers even to attempt to do it justice . On this theme he thus descants : " You would then have , " says he , 14 [ Dec. Senatorial Speeches on Slavery .
... of the Union would be far too high and enviable for his descriptive powers even to attempt to do it justice . On this theme he thus descants : " You would then have , " says he , 14 [ Dec. Senatorial Speeches on Slavery .
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... justice be done ; after portraying so viv- idly , in the passage just quoted , the many advantages that an authorized , quiet , submissive , and well - protected slave would produce to the Union , the speaker makes an admission , which ...
... justice be done ; after portraying so viv- idly , in the passage just quoted , the many advantages that an authorized , quiet , submissive , and well - protected slave would produce to the Union , the speaker makes an admission , which ...
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... justice so entirely repugnant to the truths that we have pronounced " self - evident , " that what they say is at once cast aside , without producing any mischievous results . But it is not so with Senator Clayton . While he insinuates ...
... justice so entirely repugnant to the truths that we have pronounced " self - evident , " that what they say is at once cast aside , without producing any mischievous results . But it is not so with Senator Clayton . While he insinuates ...
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... . Right and wrong - justice and injustice the will of God and the will of the Devil are a mere nothing , and for persons - to boggle about preferring one to the other is nothing 22 [ Dec. Senatorial Speeches on Slavery .
... . Right and wrong - justice and injustice the will of God and the will of the Devil are a mere nothing , and for persons - to boggle about preferring one to the other is nothing 22 [ Dec. Senatorial Speeches on Slavery .
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Página 255 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun • And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true : In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where Nature guides and Virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools...
Página 260 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand...
Página 230 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Página 395 - that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights — among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,' I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population.
Página 230 - These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.
Página 266 - States, and exacting such postage on the papers passing through the same as may be requisite to defray the expenses of the said office; appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers; appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States...
Página 147 - The cup of forbearance had been exhausted even before the recent information from the frontier of the Del Norte. But now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil.
Página 225 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Página 220 - Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
Página 231 - Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.