 | 1853 - 704 pages
...incompatibility with the demonstration of the truth, on which our declaration of Independence is based, that " all men are born equal," and have " an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The slaves in Massachusetts were treated with almost parental kindness. They were incorporated... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - Biography & Autobiography - 1859 - 360 pages
...stand upon the national idea embodied in the Declaration of Independence—that 'all men are created equal, and have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness/ It must accept these words as embracing the great central national idea of 12* America,... | |
 | Nehemiah Adams - African Americans - 1861 - 298 pages
...are to be servants forever. But we hold it to be a self-evident truth that all men are born free and equal, and have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Slavery is the sum of all villanies. Our master's will is our law ; we are subject to... | |
 | William Henry Seward - New York (State) - 1853 - 698 pages
...universally admitted, in the language of the charter of American liberty, that all men arc borii free and equal, and have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Your excellency will bear in mind that you stated in yonr second process that the person... | |
 | Nehemiah Adams - African Americans - 1861 - 300 pages
...are to be servants forever. But we hold it to be a self-evident truth that all men are born free and equal, and have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Slavery is the sum of all villanies. Our master's will is our law; we are subject to... | |
 | Council of Congregational Churches - History - 1861 - 132 pages
...full meaning, and universal application, of the famous declaration, " that all men are born free and equal, and have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ;" and the insufferable infamy of the decision recently pronounced by the highest functionary... | |
 | Thomas Low Nichols - United States - 1864 - 436 pages
...productions of machinery among those who profess the political doctrine that " all men are created equal," and have an inalienable right to " life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." ENGLISHMEN know the Yankee chiefly as he appears in literature and on the stage. He... | |
 | Tennessee. Railroad and Public Utilities Commission - Public utilities - 1884 - 158 pages
...without partiality or special favor to any. It is written as self evident, that "all men are created equal, and have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Although the government of the United States may do many things, its grant of power... | |
 | Tennessee. General Assembly. House of Representatives - Tennessee - 1885 - 1282 pages
...without partiality or special favor to any. It is written as self evident, that "all men are created equal, and have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Although the government of the United States may do many things, its grant of power... | |
 | Governors - 1889 - 760 pages
...forces during the Revolutionary War, in the defense of the principle that " all msn are created free and equal, and have an inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." His paternal grandfather was a hotel-keeper at Columbia, Lancaster Co., Pa., where George... | |
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American liberty, that all men are born free and equal, and have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 
