Letters to the Hon. William Jay: Being a Reply to His "Inquiry Into the American Colonization and American Anti-slavery Societies."Leavitt, Lord & Company, 1835 - 120 páginas |
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abolish slavery abolition of slavery abolition societies abolitionism admit advocates Africa allege American Anti-Slavery Society American Colonization Society anti assertion attempt avowed Barnes benevolent British cause character charge Christ Christian churches ciety citizens Coloniza colonizationists colonizing the free coloured population congress conscience consent constitution Daniel O'Connell declaration disclaimer Doctor of Divinity doctrines due respect duty efforts emigrants evil exclusive expressed extract fact fanaticism favour free blacks friends friends of humanity furnished gospel gradual abolition hope immediate abolition immediate abolitionists immediate emancipation institution John Jay labour lamentable language laws letter liberated Liberia Manumission manumitted means missionary moral influence nation negroes New-York object opinions oppression preaching prejudice present principles profess proof racter reader refer remedy for slavery sentiments slave-trade slaveholders Slavery Society slaves spirit testimony tion Society truth United utterly vilify vindication want of information William Jay zeal
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Página 78 - And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought : 39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Página viii - ... be, pari passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Página viii - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Página 57 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Página 66 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 41 - The effect of this Institution, if its prosperity shall equal our wishes, will be alike propitious to every interest of our domestic Society; and should it lead, as we may fairly hope it will, to the slow, but gradual abolition of slavery, it will wipe from our political Institutions the only blot which stains them...
Página 39 - Africa, and Turkey, — we have heard of the feudal slavery under which the peasantry of Europe have groaned from the days of Alaric, until now ; but, excepting only the horrible system of the West India Islands, we have never heard of slavery in any country, ancient or modern, Paga'n, Mohammedan, or Christian, so terrible in its character, so pernicious in its tendency, so remediless in its anticipated results, as the slavery which exists in these United States.
Página 52 - Slavery, in its mildest form, is an evil of the darkest character. Cruel and unnatural in its origin, no plea can be urged in justification of its continuance, but the plea of necessity...
Página 52 - They must penetrate the human soul, and eradicate the light of reason and the love of liberty. Then, and not till then, when universal darkness and despair prevail, can you perpetuate slavery, and repress all sympathies, and all humane and benevolent efforts among freemen, in behalf of the unhappy portion of our race doomed to bondage.
Página 22 - ... degradation inevitable and incurable. The African in this country belongs by birth to the very lowest station in society ; and from that station he can never rise, BE HIS TALENTS, HIS ENTERPRISE, HIS VIRTUES WHAT THEY MAY. . . They constitute a class by themselves — a class out of which no individual can be elevated, and below which, none can be depressed.