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 Color |
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... Upper Canada so disturbs the repose of the advocates of African colonization ; and many of them would rejoice at its overthrow . * Paupers and criminals are supplied and protected . How invidious to treat them so generously , and leave ...
... Upper Canada so disturbs the repose of the advocates of African colonization ; and many of them would rejoice at its overthrow . * Paupers and criminals are supplied and protected . How invidious to treat them so generously , and leave ...
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... Upper Canada , where they will find the laws equal . Your committee deem it expedi- ent also to urge this duty upon the several ministers of color throughout the United States , and all other persons of color whose influence may have ...
... Upper Canada , where they will find the laws equal . Your committee deem it expedi- ent also to urge this duty upon the several ministers of color throughout the United States , and all other persons of color whose influence may have ...
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... Upper Canada , or remain at home , without asking the consent of a slaveholding party . Nor can we conceive why free citizens , acting this liberty , should interfere with them , if they are - as they have represented them- selves to be ...
... Upper Canada , or remain at home , without asking the consent of a slaveholding party . Nor can we conceive why free citizens , acting this liberty , should interfere with them , if they are - as they have represented them- selves to be ...
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... Upper Canada ; a place far better adapted to our constitutions , our habits , and our morals ;. where preju- dice has not such an unlimited sway ; where you will be sur- rounded by christians , and have an opportunity to become ...
... Upper Canada ; a place far better adapted to our constitutions , our habits , and our morals ;. where preju- dice has not such an unlimited sway ; where you will be sur- rounded by christians , and have an opportunity to become ...
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... Upper Canada , not yet emigrate to Hayti . Here we were born - here will we live by the help of the Almighty - and here we will die , and let our bones lie with our fathers . Resolved , That we return our grateful thanks to Messrs Gar ...
... Upper Canada , not yet emigrate to Hayti . Here we were born - here will we live by the help of the Almighty - and here we will die , and let our bones lie with our fathers . Resolved , That we return our grateful thanks to Messrs Gar ...
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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.