| Frederick Marryat - Canada - 1839 - 342 pages
...rights of life and liberty, in the person 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... | |
| Frederick Marryat - Canada - 1839 - 270 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 lijc and liberty, in the person of a distant people who never offended him ; captivating and carrying... | |
| James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Constitutional history - 1840 - 678 pages
...insurrections of our fellow-citizens, with the allurements of forfeiture and confiscation nf our property. 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 their... | |
| James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Constitutional history - 1840 - 740 pages
...insurrections of our fellow-citizens, with the allurements of forfeiture and confiscation of our property. 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 their... | |
| James Madison - Constitutional history - 1841 - 684 pages
...fellow-citizens, vrith the allurements of forfeiture and confiscation of our property. He has waged cruet 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... | |
| James Madison - Constitutional history - 1841 - 678 pages
...fellow-citizens, with the allurements of forfeiture and confiscation of our property. He has waged cruel tear against human nature itself; violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in die persona of a distant people who never offended Mm; captivating and carrying them into slavery in... | |
| James Grahame - Slavery - 1842 - 128 pages
...Independence that was submitted to the general review of the Congress :—" He [the British King] has urged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its...persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur a miserable death in... | |
| Criticism - 1860 - 1172 pages
...Robert It Livingstone, cannot be too often repeated. "He [the King of Great Britain] has waged cru«l war against human nature itself, violating its most...persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into captivity in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in... | |
| Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...Africans and holding them as slaves forever, — waging perpetual " war against human nature itself, and violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons" of black men, and " keeping open a market in which men shall be bought and sold " — is oppression. In... | |
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