Thoughts on African Colonization, Or, An Impartial Exhibition of the Doctrines, Principles and Purposes of the American Colonization Society: Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of ColorGarrison and Knapp, 1832 - 236 pages |
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... better world in ascribing glory , and honor , and praise to the Great Deliverer for ever . If I can succeed in gaining their attention , I feel sure of convincing their understandings and securing their support . Besides the ...
... better world in ascribing glory , and honor , and praise to the Great Deliverer for ever . If I can succeed in gaining their attention , I feel sure of convincing their understandings and securing their support . Besides the ...
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... better . They know , that , as a body , you are no more na- tives of Africa , than they themselves are natives of Great Britain . Yet they repeat the absurd charge ; and they do so , in order to cover their anti - republican crusade ...
... better . They know , that , as a body , you are no more na- tives of Africa , than they themselves are natives of Great Britain . Yet they repeat the absurd charge ; and they do so , in order to cover their anti - republican crusade ...
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... better to reverse the case , and bring the ignorant here for cul- tivation ? ' The foregoing accusations are grave , weighty , positive - in- volving a perilous responsibility , and requiring ample and irre- fragable proof . They are ...
... better to reverse the case , and bring the ignorant here for cul- tivation ? ' The foregoing accusations are grave , weighty , positive - in- volving a perilous responsibility , and requiring ample and irre- fragable proof . They are ...
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... better aspect in relation to the education of this outcast and ted people their wants , however , are only partially supplied . The annual increase of the free colored and slave population in the United States is variously estimated ...
... better aspect in relation to the education of this outcast and ted people their wants , however , are only partially supplied . The annual increase of the free colored and slave population in the United States is variously estimated ...
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... better to leave the pagan world in darkness . The first specimen of benevolence and piety , which the colonists gave to the natives , was the building of a fort , and supplying it with arms and ammunition ! This was an earnest ...
... better to leave the pagan world in darkness . The first specimen of benevolence and piety , which the colonists gave to the natives , was the building of a fort , and supplying it with arms and ammunition ! This was an earnest ...
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Page 9 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Page 40 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 151 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
Page 29 - On motion, resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the chairman and secretary, and delivered to Dr. DODS, and that they be published in the newspapers of the city. " JOHN P. HULBERT, Chairman.
Page 91 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 106 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 151 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Page 10 - Shall I not visit for these things ? saith the Lord : shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Page 3 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.