 | Charles Elliott - Slavery and the church - 1855 - 640 pages
...itself — its essential, constituent parte. As to the effects of slavery, 1. It depraves and degrades its subjects, by removing from them the strongest natural checks to human corruption. 2. It dooms men to helpless ignorance. 3. It deprives its subjects, in a great measure, of the privileges of the... | |
 | 1858 - 542 pages
...necessarily out of such a system, which must also be considered. " 1. Its most striking effect is, to deprave and degrade its subjects by removing from them the strongest natural check* to human corruption. There are certain principles of human nature by which God works to save... | |
 | Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 592 pages
...must also be considered in forming a proper estimate of its character. 1. Its most striking effect is to deprave and degrade its subjects, by removing from...the strongest natural checks to human corruption. As there are certain laws impressed upon the elements, by which God works to preserve the beauty and... | |
 | Robert Livingston Stanton - History - 1864 - 576 pages
...must also be considered in forming a proper estimate Qf its character. 1. Its most striking effect is to deprave and degrade its -subjects, by removing...the strongest natural checks to human corruption. As there are certain laws impressed upon the elements, by which God works to preserve the beauty and... | |
 | Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 588 pages
...must also be considered in forming a proper estimate of its character. 1. Its most striking effect ia to deprave and degrade its subjects, by removing from them the strongest natural checks to human coreuption. As there are certain laws impressed upon the elements, by which God works to preserve the... | |
 | Presbyterian church in the U.S.A. - 1864 - 662 pages
...as another in the utter condemnation of slavery morally, politically, and socially. "Its effect is to deprave and degrade its subjects by removing from them the strongest checks to human corruption. * * It dooms thousands of human beings to hopeless ignorance. * * It deprives... | |
 | 1859 - 368 pages
...destructive influences of slavery in the following catalogue of curses: — " 1. Its most striking effect is to deprave and degrade its subjects, by removing from...natural checks to human corruption. " 2. It dooms millions of human beings to hopeless ignorance. "3. It deprives its subjects, in a great measure, of... | |
 | William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - Religion - 2003 - 252 pages
...bury them with appropriate services." * The Presbyterian Synod of Kentucky, in 1834, said: "Slavery deprives its subjects, in a great measure, of the privileges of the gospel. The law, as it is here, does not prevent free access to the scriptures; but ignorance, the natural... | |
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To deprave and degrade its subjects, by removing from them the strongest natural checks to human corruption. 2. It dooms thousands of human beings to hopeless ignorance. 3. It deprives its subjects, in a great measure, of the privileges of the gospel. 
