Report of the Committee of the African Civilization Society to the Public Meeting of the Society, Held at Exeter Hall on ... the 21st of June, 1842: With an AppendixJ. Murray, 1842 - 99页 |
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第xviii页 - God's will that Black people should be slaves to White people. White people first told us we should sell slaves to them, and we sold them; and White people are now telling us not to sell slaves, and we will not sell them again ;" — and, as another justly added, " If White people give up buying, Black people will give up selling.
第xlviii页 - It can scarcely be necessary to remind Mr. Everett that the right thus claimed by Great Britain is not exercised for any selfish purpose. It is asserted in the interest of humanity, and in mitigation of the sufferings of our fellow-men. The object has met with the concurrence of the whole civilized world, including the United States of America; and it ought to receive universal assistance and support. The undersigned...
第xlvii页 - ... whatever ; on the contrary, they are ordered to abstain from all interference with them, be they slavers or otherwise. But where reasonable suspicion exists that the American flag has been abused for the purpose of covering the vessel of another nation, it would appear scarcely credible, had it not been made manifest by the repeated...
第xlvi页 - The undersigned again renounces, as he has already done in the most explicit terms, any right on the part of the British government to search American vessels in time of peace. The right of search, except when specially conceded by treaty, is a purely belligerant right, and can have no existence on the high seas during peace.
第4页 - His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. His Grace the Archbishop of York. His Grace the Archbishop of Armagh.
第xx页 - Aboh, shall be left in the free enjoyment and exercise of the Christian religion, and shall not be hindered or molested in their endeavours to teach the same to all persons whatever, willing and desirous to be taught ; nor shall any subject of...
第xx页 - ... Agreement, no person whatever, coming into the country, shall be reduced into Slavery, or treated or used as Slaves. All white persons whatever, and all British subjects of whatever colour, at present detained in Slavery, shall be immediately set free.
第xciv页 - Their relation to the English Crown should be, not the allegiance of subjects to which we have no right to pretend, and which it would entail an inconvenient responsibility to possess, but the deference of weaker powers to a stronger and more enlightened neighbour whose protection and counsel they seek, and to whom they are bound by certain definite obligations.
第lxxv页 - Select Committee to inquire into the state of the British possessions on the west coast of Africa, more especially with reference to their present relations with the neighbouring native tribes.