The African Repository, Volume 24American Colonization Society., 1848 - African Americans |
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... Churches , recent addition of members . 234 Citizens of Liberia in the U. States..259 Circular for the 4th of July - New York Col. Soc ..... Clay , Hon . Henry , elected President of the Am . Col. Society .... Coast of Africa squadron ...
... Churches , recent addition of members . 234 Citizens of Liberia in the U. States..259 Circular for the 4th of July - New York Col. Soc ..... Clay , Hon . Henry , elected President of the Am . Col. Society .... Coast of Africa squadron ...
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... Church , resolutions of ... 368 Greenville and Blue Barre ... * Great curiosity - a Bushman .. H. Health of Missionaries .. 99 ... 251 Health of the late emigrants ...... Hening , Rev. E. W .. extract from his Journal - African ...
... Church , resolutions of ... 368 Greenville and Blue Barre ... * Great curiosity - a Bushman .. H. Health of Missionaries .. 99 ... 251 Health of the late emigrants ...... Hening , Rev. E. W .. extract from his Journal - African ...
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... Church.368 Resolutions of the Presbytery of Nash- ville ...... Rice ... , The Republic of Liberia ... 18 , 19 , 21 , 62 , 100 , 177 , 236 , 357 , 359 Meeting at Pittsburgh , Pa . , to express the pub- lic sentiment in relation to ...
... Church.368 Resolutions of the Presbytery of Nash- ville ...... Rice ... , The Republic of Liberia ... 18 , 19 , 21 , 62 , 100 , 177 , 236 , 357 , 359 Meeting at Pittsburgh , Pa . , to express the pub- lic sentiment in relation to ...
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... churches for the worship of our Creator , every where to be seen , bear testimony to our piety , and to our acknowledgment of His Provi- dence . The native African , bowing down with us before the altar of the living God , declare that ...
... churches for the worship of our Creator , every where to be seen , bear testimony to our piety , and to our acknowledgment of His Provi- dence . The native African , bowing down with us before the altar of the living God , declare that ...
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... Church , thence down Broad street to Wilson's corner , and thence up Gurley's street to the M. E. Church . After the exercises at the church , the troops will form to escort His Excellency , the Governor , and other civil officers ...
... Church , thence down Broad street to Wilson's corner , and thence up Gurley's street to the M. E. Church . After the exercises at the church , the troops will form to escort His Excellency , the Governor , and other civil officers ...
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Page 52 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 4 - ... whenever these great objects are not obtained, the people have a right to alter the government, and to take measures necessary for their safety, prosperity, and happiness.
Page 53 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them ; thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Page 5 - The liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state': it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this commonwealth.
Page 5 - The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence: and as, in time of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the legislature ; and the military power shall always be held in an exact subordination to the civil authority, and be governed by it.
Page 291 - where two or three are gathered together in His name, there He is in the midst of them," and a pleasure to observe how very general the attendance upon divine worship is among these people.
Page 5 - No subsidy, charge, tax, impost, or duties ought to be established, fixed, laid, or levied, under any pretext whatsoever, without the consent of the people or their representatives in the legislature.
Page 11 - Sec. 15. The improvement of the native tribes and their advancement in the arts of agriculture and husbandry being a cherished object of this Government, it shall be the duty of the President to appoint in each county some discreet person, ! whose duty it shall be to make regular and periodical tours through the country, for the purpose of calling the attention of the natives to...
Page 4 - All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent and indefeasible rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing and protecting property and reputation, and of pursuing their own happiness.
Page 6 - IN order to prevent those, who are vested with authority, from becoming oppressors, the people have a right, at such periods and in such manner as they shall establish by their frame of government, to cause their public officers to return to private life; and to fill up vacant places by certain and regular elections and appointments.