 ... the contract, it is not conferred by the spirit, and therefore we cannot use it honorably, that is, we cannot use it at all," — until the southern states agree to it, or Maryland and Virginia, or either of them, abolish slavery in their own limits....  The Limitations of Human Responsibility - Page 175by Francis Wayland - 1838 - 188 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...not have a slave to till my ground . To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the gold That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. MEACO, a city of Niphon, in Japan, fcrmerly the metropolis of that empire ; and sud s have been at... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - Bibliography - 1838 - 524 pages
...either of them, abolish slavery in their own limits. " While I hold these opinions," he continues, " I beg leave to remark, that I entertain no light conceptions...myself, for I have never been in Washington. I have ' full a stain like a wound," when foNo. vi. — VOL. ill. 39 reigners have taunted me with the fact,... | |
 | Elizabeth Buffum Chace - Antislavery movements - 1891 - 64 pages
...not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the gold That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No; dear as freedom is, and, in my heart's Just estimation, prized above all price, I would much rather... | |
 | Mary Burnham Putnam - Slavery and the church - 1913 - 106 pages
...according to my will. As to the District of Columbia, Congress had power but could not honorably use it. He would not own a slave, "for all the gold that sinews bought and sold, have ever earned." He feels the stain of slavery in the District, but would not wipe it off dishonorably. He believes... | |
 | Dorothy Sterling - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 244 pages
...not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the gold That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No; dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation, prized above all price, I would much rather... | |
 | 1838 - 514 pages
...either of them, abolish slavery in their own limits. " While I hold these opinions," he continues, " I beg leave to remark, that I entertain no light conceptions...Washington. I have ' felt a stain like a wound,' when foNo. vi. — VoL. ill. 39 reigners have taunted me with the fact, that the scat of government of this... | |
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