Letters to the Hon. William Jay: Being a Reply to His "Inquiry Into the American Colonization and American Anti-slavery Societies."Leavitt, Lord & Company, 1835 - 120 頁 |
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第 78 頁 - And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought : 39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
第 viii 頁 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
第 57 頁 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
第 66 頁 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
第 41 頁 - The effect of this Institution, if its prosperity shall equal our wishes, will be alike propitious to every interest of our domestic Society; and should it lead, as we may fairly hope it will, to the slow, but gradual abolition of slavery, it will wipe from our political Institutions the only blot which stains them...
第 52 頁 - Slavery, in its mildest form, is an evil of the darkest character. Cruel and unnatural in its origin, no plea can be urged in justification of its continuance, but the plea of necessity...
第 52 頁 - They must penetrate the human soul, and eradicate the light of reason and the love of liberty. Then, and not till then, when universal darkness and despair prevail, can you perpetuate slavery, and repress all sympathies, and all humane and benevolent efforts among freemen, in behalf of the unhappy portion of our race doomed to bondage.
第 4 頁 - HIM, unto whom all hearts are open, and from whom no secrets are hid.
第 22 頁 - It is taken for granted that in present circumstances, any effort to produce a general and thorough amelioration in the character and condition of the free people of color must be to a great extent fruitless.
第 4 頁 - Society shall be called the American Society for colonizing the free people of colour of the United States.