| William Drayton - Abolitionists - 1836 - 318 pages
...Jefferson's original draught of the Declaration of American Independence. "He (King George) has waged civil war against human nature itself, violating its most...persons of a distant people who never offended him: captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their... | |
| Abolitionists - 1836 - 444 pages
...rights of life and liberty, in the persons of a distant people who never offended him: captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of... | |
| George Tucker - Presidents - 1837 - 636 pages
...of forfeiture and confiscation of our property. He has waged cruel war against human nature ittelf, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty...persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and currying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their... | |
| George Tucker - Presidents - 1837 - 588 pages
...and confiscation of our property. He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating- itt most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their... | |
| English literature - 1838 - 564 pages
...experience of the mischiefs, if not from repentance for the crimes of the traffic in human flesh : — ' He has waged ' cruel war against human nature itself,...persons of a distant people, who ' never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery ' in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in... | |
| 1838 - 556 pages
...experience of the mischiefs, if not from repentance for the crimes of the traffic in human flesh : — ' He has waged ' cruel war against human nature itself,...and liberty in the persons of a distant people, who 1 never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery ' in another hemisphere, or to incur... | |
| Theodore Dwight Weld - Enslaved persons - 1838 - 66 pages
...Declaration, as it came from the hand of Jefferson, it is alleged that Great Britain had " waged a cruel war against human nature itself, violating its...life and liberty in the persons of a distant people, carrying them into slavery, * * determined to keep up a market where MEN should be bought and sold,"—thus... | |
| L. Carroll Judson - United States - 1839 - 376 pages
...conditions.] The next paragraph, which related to the slave trade, was entirely erased. It was as follows: • "He has waged cruel war against human nature itself,...persons of a distant people, who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery, in another hemisphere, or to- incur miserable death in... | |
| Frederick Marryat - Canada - 1839 - 326 pages
...allegiance to the King of England, the Declaration continued, in Jefferson's nervous style : " He [the king] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating...its most sacred rights of life and liberty, in the person of a distant people who never offended him ; captivating and carrying them into slavery, in... | |
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