 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1860 - 464 pages
...meu professing a religion the most mild, humane, gentle, and generous, adopting such a principle, aa repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the...to liberty ? Every thinking, honest man rejects it in speculation. How free in practice from conscientious motives 1 Would any one believe that 1 am master... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1860 - 364 pages
...men, professing a religion the most mild, humane, gentle and generous, adopting such a principle aa repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the...to liberty? Every thinking, honest man, rejects it in speculation." Was John Randolph of Roanoke, a Fanatic, and an Incendiary, and an Enemy of the South... | |
 | William Allen - 1860 - 110 pages
...his slaves ; so also did John Randolph. Patrick Henry declared, that the principle of slavery is " as repugnant to humanity, as it is inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive to liberty." Mr. Jefferson said in his Notes on Virginia, in reference to the holding of slaves, " I tremble for... | |
 | George Duffield - 1861 - 64 pages
...honest ancestors detested. Is it not amazing, that at a time, when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above...to humanity, as it is inconsistent with the Bible, arid destructive to liberty ? every thinking honest man rejects it in speculation. How few in practice... | |
 | George Livermore - 1863 - 218 pages
...John Alsop, of Hudson, NY, dated at Hanover Court-House, 13 January, 1773, pronouncing slavery to be " as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bible and destructive to Liberty." 3. The laws of some of the Northern and Middle States, at the time of the extinction of slavery therein,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1864 - 572 pages
...fond of liberty, CHAP. in such an age, we find men, professing a religion the most humane, mild, meek, gentle, and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant...to liberty ? Every thinking honest man rejects it in speculation, but how few in practice from conscientious motives! Believe me, I shall honor the Quakers... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - 1864 - 842 pages
...in such an age and in such a country we find men professing a religion the most humane and gentle, adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity as it...inconsistent with the Bible and destructive to liberty ? Believe me, I honor the Quakers for their noble efforts to abolish slavery. It is a debt we owe the... | |
 | John Hancock - 1865 - 52 pages
...such an age, and in such a country, we find men, professing a religion the most humane and gentle, adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity as it...inconsistent with the Bible and destructive to liberty ? Believe me, I honor the Quakers for their noble efforts to abolish slavery. Every thinking, honest... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1867 - 518 pages
...that, in such an age and such a country, we find men professing a religion the most humane, mild, meek, gentle, and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant...to liberty. Every thinking, honest man rejects it in speculation, but how few in practice from conscientious motives ! The world in general has denied... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pages
...of slavery ? " Is it fanaticism for Masachusetts to believe as your Henry believed, that "slavery is as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive to liberty ?'" Is it fanaticism for her to believe as your Madison believed, that " slavery is a dreadful calamity... | |
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Is it not amazing that, at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country above all others fond of liberty, that, in such an age, and... 
