The African Observer, Bände 1-12Enoch Lewis I. Ashmead, printer, 1828 - 384 Seiten |
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... Judge Winches- ter , on a motion to quash the present- ment , yet the strength of argument and the eloquence of the counsels for the state , Robert Walker and George Adams , Esquires , would undoubtedly have prevailed , but for the ...
... Judge Winches- ter , on a motion to quash the present- ment , yet the strength of argument and the eloquence of the counsels for the state , Robert Walker and George Adams , Esquires , would undoubtedly have prevailed , but for the ...
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... Judge Hemphill ; I enclosed these documents to Mr. Stockton , your attorney gene- ral , to whose zeal and politeness on former occasions , I am greatly indebt- ed ; I beg leave to refer you to Mr. Stockton , and who will , also , be ...
... Judge Hemphill ; I enclosed these documents to Mr. Stockton , your attorney gene- ral , to whose zeal and politeness on former occasions , I am greatly indebt- ed ; I beg leave to refer you to Mr. Stockton , and who will , also , be ...
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... judge , who had urged his con- demnation with a vindictive earnest- ness , intrenched himself in forms , and found the law gave him no power in favour of mercy . He then forwarded a representation of the case to the President , through ...
... judge , who had urged his con- demnation with a vindictive earnest- ness , intrenched himself in forms , and found the law gave him no power in favour of mercy . He then forwarded a representation of the case to the President , through ...
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... judges of the provocation as well as the murder . The mutilation of a slave is punishable , of this state , or to any slave in the act of resistance to his lawful owner or master , or to any slave dying under moderate correction . " A ...
... judges of the provocation as well as the murder . The mutilation of a slave is punishable , of this state , or to any slave in the act of resistance to his lawful owner or master , or to any slave dying under moderate correction . " A ...
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... ( Judges chap . i , ii , iii . ) The utter destruction , frequently mention- ed , appears to have applied , rather to the fortresses and armies , than to the people at large . Thus Saul stated to Samuel that he had utterly destroyed the ...
... ( Judges chap . i , ii , iii . ) The utter destruction , frequently mention- ed , appears to have applied , rather to the fortresses and armies , than to the people at large . Thus Saul stated to Samuel that he had utterly destroyed the ...
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Seite 362 - ... where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? and let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Seite 233 - He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
Seite 177 - That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights; amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety...
Seite 332 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law...
Seite 352 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever...
Seite 174 - ... empowered to seize or arrest such fugitive from labor, and to take him or her before any judge of the Circuit or District Courts of the United States, residing or being within the state, or before any magistrate of a county, city, or town corporate, wherein such seizure or arrest shall be made...
Seite 6 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.
Seite 86 - And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
Seite 87 - And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you ; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return eveiy man unto his family.
Seite 234 - Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves .to the Lord, To serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, To be his servants, Every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, And taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, And make them joyful in my house of prayer: Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; For mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.