Trial and Imprisonment of Jonathan Walker, at Pensacola, Florida: For Aiding Slaves to Escape from Bondage. With an Appendix, Containing a Sketch of His LifePub. at the Anti-slavery office, 1845 - 119 Seiten |
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Seite 95 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Seite 43 - Their legislative powers shall also extend to all the rightful subjects of legislation ; but no law shall be valid which is inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States, or which shall lay any person under restraint, burthen, or disability, on account of his religious opinions, professions or worship ; in all which he shall be free to maintain his own, and not burthened for those of another.
Seite 74 - And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled ; but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts...
Seite 94 - He expressly lays down the golden rule, of doing to others as we would they should do unto us...
Seite 93 - I have repeatedly been stigmatized with the epithet of " slave-stealer ;" to which charge I did, and do still plead not guilty — although punished for that offence ; neither was it ever my intention to commit it, and God forbid it ever should be. Have not the fathers of our nation proclaimed to the world, by the declaration of independence, that " all men are born free and equal ? " and that they " are endowed by their creator...
Seite 74 - He came not to do His own will, but the will of Him that sent Him (John vi.
Seite 74 - Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin...
Seite 43 - The legislative powers shall be vested in the governor, and in thirteen of the most fit and discreet persons of the Territory, to be called the legislative council, who shall be appointed annually by the President of the United States from among those holding real estate therein, and who...
Seite 44 - That, to the end that the inhabitants may be protected in their liberty, property, and the exercise of their religion...
Seite 78 - You are, however, at liberty to make such use of it as you may think...