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Page 175 - While it admits that each State in which slavery exists, has by the Constitution of the United States exclusive right to legislate in regard to its Abolition, it shall aim to convince all our fellow citizens by arguments addressed to their understandings and consciences, that slave-holding is a
Page 11 - a territory on the coast of Africa, or at some other place not within any of the States, or territorial governments of the United States, to serve as an asylum for such persons of colour as are now free, and may desire the same, and for those who may hereafter be emancipated within this commonwealth.
Page 144 - rambling, riding, or going abroad in the night, or riding horses in the daytime, without leave," a slave may be whipt, cropt, or branded on the cheek with the letter R, or otherwise punished, not extending to life, or " so as to render him unfit for labor.
Page 174 - city Anti-Slavery Society —p. 5. " We freely and unanimously recognize the sovereignty of each State to legislate exclusively on the subject of. slavery, which is tolerated within its limits ; we consider that Congress has no right to interfere with any of the slave States in relation to this
Page 156 - has been borne by the republicans of France, the Catholics of South America, the people of England, Scotland and Ireland. So long ago as 1774, John Wesley declared : "It cannot be that either war or contract can give any man such a property in another, as he has in his sheep and oxen. Much less is it
Page 185 - upon these estates, though abandoned, the negroes continued their labors, where there were any, even inferior agents to guide them; and on those estates where no white men were left to direct them, they betook themselves to planting of provisions : but upon all the plantations where the whites resided, the blacks continued to labor quietly as before.
Page 23 - In Kentucky, for the same offence, he is to receive thirty lashes, " well laid on." The law of Louisiana declares, " Free people of color ought never to insult or strike white people, nor presume to conceive themselves equal to the whites ; but, on the contrary, they ought to yield to them on every occasion, and never speak or answer them but
Page 83 - Governor Miller, of South Carolina, in his message to the Legislature in 1829, remarks, "Slavery is not a national evil; on the contrary, it is a NATIONAL BENEFIT. Slavery exists in some form every where, and it is not of much consequence in a philosophical point of view, whether it be voluntary or involuntary.
Page 143 - In Maryland, the Justice may order the offender's ears to be cropped. In Kentucky, " any negro, mulatto, or Indian, bond or free," who " shall at any time lift his hand in opposition to any white person, shall receive thirty lashes on his or her bare back, well laid on, by order of the Justice.