The African Repository, Band 30American Colonization Society., 1854 |
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... ment . ber of this body until the establishment of He continued a very active mem- quently , until he declined a re - election , he was elected to the State Legislature . Re- tiring from the practice of the law in 1816 '17 , he was in ...
... ment . ber of this body until the establishment of He continued a very active mem- quently , until he declined a re - election , he was elected to the State Legislature . Re- tiring from the practice of the law in 1816 '17 , he was in ...
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... ment . We were taxed without our consent . We were compelled to These things tend to make Chris- tian colonization , which is so diffi- cult in other heathen countries , not merely possible in Africa , but easy . Every natural advantage ...
... ment . We were taxed without our consent . We were compelled to These things tend to make Chris- tian colonization , which is so diffi- cult in other heathen countries , not merely possible in Africa , but easy . Every natural advantage ...
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... ment , and its contents have been considered with that attention which their importance demands ; and I am requested to assure your Excel - purpose - to proceed to the organi- lency that the sympathy and kind zation of a settlement at ...
... ment , and its contents have been considered with that attention which their importance demands ; and I am requested to assure your Excel - purpose - to proceed to the organi- lency that the sympathy and kind zation of a settlement at ...
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... ment of Liberia - to the amount of three thousand dollars - in making the necessary defensive prepara- tions , and the employment of a suf- ficient number of men , six months , for the protection of the settlement ; made from time to ...
... ment of Liberia - to the amount of three thousand dollars - in making the necessary defensive prepara- tions , and the employment of a suf- ficient number of men , six months , for the protection of the settlement ; made from time to ...
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... ment for the benefit of our colored people , that we may give a tangible form to our doings in this enter- prise . Public sentiment in the State of Indiana , requires practical results , and the clear evidences of the utility of our ...
... ment for the benefit of our colored people , that we may give a tangible form to our doings in this enter- prise . Public sentiment in the State of Indiana , requires practical results , and the clear evidences of the utility of our ...
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Seite 106 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them...
Seite 83 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Provided always that any person escaping into the same from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Seite 267 - WHEN Israel went out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language ; Judah was his sanctuary, And Israel his dominion.
Seite 251 - О that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Seite 176 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the dlin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Seite 86 - The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes. Duties, Imports and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States...
Seite 358 - Mahometanism throughout t ie interior is slowly but evidently modifying the Negro. An African Mussulman is still a warrior, for the dissemination of faith as well as for the gratification of avarice; yet the Prophet's laws are so much more genial than the precepts of paganism, that, within the last half century, the humanizing influence of the Koran is acknowledged by all who are acquainted with the interior tribes.
Seite 315 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Seite 359 - ... beauty of the sex, who, in many respects, resembled the Moor rather than the negro. Unaware of a stranger's presence, they came forth as usual in a simple dress which covers their body from waist to knee, and leaves the rest of the figure entirely naked. Group after group gathered together on the brink of the brook in the slanting sunlight and lengthening shadows of the plain. Some rested on their pitchers and water vessels; some chatted, or leaned on each other gracefully, listening to the chat...
Seite 283 - I live and suffer, or soon lie down in death, that he will guide me by his counsel, and afterwards receive me to glory.