 | Charles Wilkins Webber - History - 1855 - 600 pages
...virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore, that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercises of religion,... | |
 | Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... | |
 | James Pinkney Hambleton - History - 1856 - 550 pages
...in others, where the privilege was not so extensive. But our glorious old Bill of Eights provided " that religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator,...discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conscience, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are entitled to a free exercise of religion,... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - History - 1859 - 702 pages
...; — Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, " that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...be directed only by reason and conviction, not by MEMORIAL AND REMONSTRANCE. 635 force or violence."* The religion, then, of every man must be left to... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - History - 1859 - 700 pages
...adopted :— Draught of Colonel Mason. Amendment of Mr. Madison. " That religion, or the duty we " That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the man- owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be di- ner of discharging it, being... | |
 | John Scott - Sectionalism (U.S.) - 1860 - 278 pages
...of an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. 20. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and, therefore, all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise... | |
 | John Scott - Sectionalism (U.S.) - 1860 - 282 pages
...of an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. 20. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and, therefore, all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to Ike free exercise... | |
 | Episcopal Church. General Convention - United States - 1861 - 698 pages
...Declaration of Rights, it is provided in the words following, viz. — " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... | |
 | Virginia - Law - 1862 - 238 pages
...virtue, and by a- frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 438 pages
...virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... | |
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That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... 
