Proceedings of the New York Anti-slavery Convention, Held at Utica, October 21, and New York Anti-slavery State Society, Held at Peterboro', October 22, 1835Printed at the Standard & Democrat office, 1835 - 48页 |
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abolition of slavery abolitionist adopted American Anti-Slavery Society American slavery Anti appointed Avery Beriah Green Bible blood brethren called cause Chenango County christian church Clark conscience Constitution Convention declaration of sentiments delegates demand despotism District of Columbia doctrines duty enslaved evils Executive Committee exertions fear feel fellow citizens free discussion friends of human FRIENDS OF IMMEDIATE George Storrs Gerrit Smith hate heart heaven holy freedom immediate and universal immediate emancipation insults invited Kellogg labor laws Leavitt Lewis Tappan liberty Lord master meeting motion nation North o'clock A. M. object October 22 Oneida county oppressed oppressor ourselves passion patriot Peterboro philanthropists political prayer principles Republican resolution Resolved right of free sacrifice Saviour slave slaveholders Slavery Society Snyder spirit Stewart subserve suffer system of American threaten tion truth Utica vindicate violence Westchester county WHITESBORO YORK ANTI-SLAVERY
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第37页 - I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth...
第19页 - I love the free and happy form of civil government under which I live ; not because it confers new rights on me. My rights all spring from an infinitely nobler source — from the favor and grace of God. Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance. To no human charter am I indebted for my rights. They pertain to my original constitution ; and I read them in that Book of books,...
第11页 - This constitution may be amended at any annual meeting of the Society; provided, that the proposed...
第10页 - The object of this Society is the entire abolition of slavery in the United States. While it admits that each state in which slavery exists, has, by the Constitution of the United States, the exclusive right to legislate in regard to its abolition in said state, it shall aim to convince all our fellow-citizens, by arguments addressed to their understandings and consciences, that slaveholding is a heinous crime in...
第19页 - This right, so sacred, is sought to be trammelled. It is virtually denied. What I have said is introductory to the expression of my dissent from the tenor of the language with which this invasion is generally met. This right is, for the most part, defended on the ground, that it is given to us by our political constitutions ; and that it was purchased for us by the blood and toil of our fathers. Now, I wish to see its defence placed on its true and infinitely higher ground ; on the ground, that God...
第10页 - This Society shall aim to elevate the character and condition of the people of color, by encouraging their intellectual, moral, and religious improvement, and by removing public prejudice, that thus they may, according to their intellectual and moral worth, share an equality with the whites, of civil and religious privileges; but this Society will never, in any way, countenance the oppressed in vindicating their rights by resorting to physical force.
第35页 - An universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire," — this would doubtless have been noble writing.
第5页 - ... ascend day and night from every plantation, every factory, every corn-field, every rice-field, every tobacco-field, every cotton-field, and every kitchen of eleven States, and penetrate the ear of God. Mr. S. said, The slaves never held a convention on the subject of their wrongs; they never met to...
第5页 - ... of piety, as meanness is from generosity, as bigotry is from charity, as truth from falsehood, as freedom from slavery. They would fain make us unfit for this world. We are not judged by evidence...
第19页 - My reason therefore, for loving a republican form of government, and for preferring it to any other — to monarchial and despotic governments — is, not that it clothes me with rights, which these withhold from me ; but, that it makes fewer encroachments than they do, on the rights, which God gave me — on the divinely appointed scope of man's agency. I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system. It is not then to the constitutions of my nation and...