Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, with Some Account of the Annual Meeting, Volume 4Isaac Knapp, 1837 - Antislavery movements |
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Page 110 - the great foreign powers, shall recognize the independence of the new Government, at least until the lapse of time or the course of events shall have proved, beyond cavil or dispute, the ability of the people of that country to maintain their separate sovereignty, and to uphold the Government constituted by them.
Page 109 - shall be a firm, inviolable and universal peace, and a true and sincere friendship between the United States of America, and the United Mexican States, in all the extent of their possessions and, territories, between their people and citizens respectively, without distinction of persons or
Page 14 - places purchased by consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards and other needful buildings.
Page 73 - of all the Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians, in eleven States of the Union, ARE OF THE DEVIL. They hold, if they do not buy and sell slaves, and, with few exceptions, they hesitate not to * apprehend and restore ' runaway slaves, when in their power.
Page 76 - beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea,
Page 111 - it might subject us, however unjustly, to the imputation of seeking to establish the claim of our neighbors to a territory, with a view to its subsequent acquisition
Page 11 - in him, quietness, peace and love among all christian people, and especially among them that are or shall be committed to their charge.*
Page 98 - with Afric's tears— Her broad flag stain'd and gory With the hoarded guilt of years ! Think of the frantic mother, Lamenting for her child, Till falling lashes smother » Her cries of anguish wild ! Think of the prayers ascending, Yet shriek'd, alas ! in vain, When heart from heart is rending Ne'er to be join'd again. Shall we behold, unheeding, Life's holiest feelings crush'd
Page 11 - obey them to whom' the charge and government over him Is committed, following with a glad mind and will their godly admonitions,
Page 29 - said, there is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune; but,