The Legion of Liberty: And Force of Truth, Containing the Thoughts, Words, and Deeds of Some Prominent Apostles, Champions and Martyrs |
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... fellow human beings , the wretched victims of tyran- ny on their own native soil ; here we stand convicted to our con- sciences and to the world , as the abject slaves of slavery . The pulpit is muzzled , it cannot speak ; the press is ...
... fellow human beings , the wretched victims of tyran- ny on their own native soil ; here we stand convicted to our con- sciences and to the world , as the abject slaves of slavery . The pulpit is muzzled , it cannot speak ; the press is ...
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... fellow - creatures , ought to be considered as a so- they cruelly and wantonly sport with lemn mockery of , and insult to , that God whose protection we had then implored , and could not fail to hold us up in detestation , and render us ...
... fellow - creatures , ought to be considered as a so- they cruelly and wantonly sport with lemn mockery of , and insult to , that God whose protection we had then implored , and could not fail to hold us up in detestation , and render us ...
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... fellow men a bondage , one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose . But we must wait with patience the workings of an overruling Providence , and hope that that is preparing the ...
... fellow men a bondage , one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose . But we must wait with patience the workings of an overruling Providence , and hope that that is preparing the ...
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... fellow men . Philadelphia , Feb. 3 , 1790 . BENJAMIN FRANKLIN , President . [ Federal Gazette , 1790. ] BENJAMIN RUSH . The [ cruel ] master's wealth cannot make him happy . -The suffer- ings of a single hour in the world of misery ...
... fellow men . Philadelphia , Feb. 3 , 1790 . BENJAMIN FRANKLIN , President . [ Federal Gazette , 1790. ] BENJAMIN RUSH . The [ cruel ] master's wealth cannot make him happy . -The suffer- ings of a single hour in the world of misery ...
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... fellow beings was emancipated . As we ought with gratitude to admire that decree of heaven , which has numbered us among the free , we ought to lament and deplore the necessity of holding our fellow men in bondage . - Debate in Virginia ...
... fellow beings was emancipated . As we ought with gratitude to admire that decree of heaven , which has numbered us among the free , we ought to lament and deplore the necessity of holding our fellow men in bondage . - Debate in Virginia ...
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