Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 1Perkins & Marvin, 1838 |
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Page 53
... occasion to suggest , that the land is not yet wholly free from the contamination of a traffic , at which every feeling of humanity must forever revolt - I mean the African slave trade . Neither public sentiment , nor the law , has ...
... occasion to suggest , that the land is not yet wholly free from the contamination of a traffic , at which every feeling of humanity must forever revolt - I mean the African slave trade . Neither public sentiment , nor the law , has ...
Page 56
... occasion will soon be passed . Neither we nor our children can expect to behold its return . They are in the distant regions of futurity , they exist only in the all - creating power of God , who shall stand here , a hun- dred years ...
... occasion will soon be passed . Neither we nor our children can expect to behold its return . They are in the distant regions of futurity , they exist only in the all - creating power of God , who shall stand here , a hun- dred years ...
Page 57
... occasion has excited . These thousands of human faces , glowing with sympathy and joy , and , from the impulses of a common gratitude , turned reverently to heaven , in this spacious temple of the firmament , proclaim that the day , the ...
... occasion has excited . These thousands of human faces , glowing with sympathy and joy , and , from the impulses of a common gratitude , turned reverently to heaven , in this spacious temple of the firmament , proclaim that the day , the ...
Page 58
... occasion , with prayers to Almighty God for his blessing , and in the midst of this cloud of wit- nesses , we have begun the work . We trust it will be prosecuted , and that springing from a broad foundation , rising high in massive ...
... occasion , with prayers to Almighty God for his blessing , and in the midst of this cloud of wit- nesses , we have begun the work . We trust it will be prosecuted , and that springing from a broad foundation , rising high in massive ...
Page 59
... circumstances , might itself have been ex- pected to occasion a war of half a century , has been achieved ; twenty - four sovereign and independent states erected ; and a general government established over them , so safe , so wise 59.
... circumstances , might itself have been ex- pected to occasion a war of half a century , has been achieved ; twenty - four sovereign and independent states erected ; and a general government established over them , so safe , so wise 59.
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