 Would any one believe that I am master of slaves of my own purchase ? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them. I will not, I cannot, justify it; however culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my ' devoir' to virtue as to own...  The Abolitionist - Pàgina 1531833Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1853 - 276 pàgines
...living here without them. 1 will not, I cannot, .justify it. However culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to virtue as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them. I believe a time will come when an opportunity1 will be offered... | |
 | Edward Everett, Charles Sumner - 1854 - 234 pàgines
...master of slaves, crying, "I will not, I cannot justify it. However culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to Virtue as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts and lament my want of conformity to them." Such words as these, fitly coming from our leaders, belong to... | |
 | 1854 - 136 pàgines
...master of slaves, crying, " I will not, I cannot justify it. However culpahle my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to Virtue as to own the excellence and rectitude »f her precepts and lament my want of con formity. to them." Such words as these, fitly coming from... | |
 | 1856 - 88 pàgines
...AS MY SUFFRAGE WILL GO, SHALL NOT BE WANTING." — Letter to Robert Morris. Patrick Henry's View. " I believe a time will come, when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. If not, let us transmit to our desc endants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot,... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1856 - 348 pàgines
...master of slaves, said, ' I will not, I cannot justify it. However culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to virtue, as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them. I believe a time will come, when an opportunity will be offered... | |
 | Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - 1856 - 464 pàgines
...1854. le Sumner's Speech of August, 1852. cannot justify it. However culpable my conduct I will so far pay my devoir to virtue as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them." " The great champion of the Declaration, and one of the final... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - 1856 - 420 pàgines
...humanity. It would rejoice my very soul that every one of my fellowbeings was emancipated. I believe the time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil." Judge "Wilson, of Pennsylvania, said — "I consider the power given to this Constitution to prohibit... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pàgines
...conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to virtue as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them. I believe a...opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we can do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants,... | |
 | William Allen - 1857 - 926 pàgines
...along by the general inconvenience of living here without them. I will not — I cannot justify it. I believe a time will come, when an opportunity will...be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Every tiling we can do is to improve it, if it happens in our day ; if not, let us transmit to our descendants,... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 432 pàgines
...living here without them. I will not, I cannot justify it. However culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to virtue as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them. I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered... | |
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