The Sin of Slavery, and Its Remedy: Containing Some Reflections on the Moral Influence of African Colonization |
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Page 5 - Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a. trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Page 7 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Page 5 - Yet they seek me daily, And delight to know my ways, As a nation that did righteousness, And forsook not the ordinance of their God: They ask of me the ordinances of justice; They take delight in approaching to God.
Page 7 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 5 - The evil has become so apparent, and the necessity for a remedy so palpable, that some of the most considerable of the slave-holding States have been induced to impose restraints upon the practice of emancipation, by annexing conditions, which have no effect but to transfer the evil from one State to another...
Page 8 - It was proper again and again to repeat, that it was far, from the intention of the Society to affect in any manner, the tenure by which a certain species of property is held. He was himself a slaveholder ; and he considered that kind of property as inviolable as any other in the country.
Page 7 - This crime among the Jews exposed the perpetrators of it to capital punishment; Exodus xxi, 16 ; and the apostle here classes them with sinners of the first rank. The word he uses, in its original import, comprehends all who are concerned in bringing any of the human race into slavery, or in retaining them in it. Hominum fures, qui servos vel liberos abducunt, retinent, vendunt, vel emunt. Stealers of men are all those who bring off slaves or freemen, and keep, sell, or buy them. To steal a freeman,...
Page 4 - The effect of this Institution, if its prosperity shall equal our wishes, will be alike propitious to every interest of our domestic Society; and should it lead, as we may fairly hope it will, to the slow, but gradual abolition of slavery, it will wipe from our political Institutions the only blot which stains them; and in palliation of which we shall not be at liberty to plead the excuse of moral necessity, until we shall have honestly exerted all the means which we possess for its extinction.
Page 5 - Society," declares one of its vice presidents, " tends, and may powerfully tend, to rid us gradually and entirely in the United States, of slaves and slavery.
Page 41 - ... slave or slaves, for the purpose of such removal, at such time as the said Society shall appoint; and in case the said Society shall refuse so to receive and remove the person or persons so manumitted and offered, or in case the said person or persons shall refuse so to be removed, then it shall be the duty of the said Board of Managers to remove the said person or persons to such other place or places beyond the limits of this State as the said Board shall approve of, and the said person or...