| Joseph Gales - United States - 1834 - 646 pages
...attention to the subject of slavery ; that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone, in this land of freedom, are degraded into perpetual bondage, and who, amidst the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groaning in servile subjection ; that you will devise... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 244 pages
...attention to the subject of slavery ; that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone in this land of freedom, are degraded into perpetual bondage, and who amidst- the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groaning in servile subjection — that you will... | |
| Antislavery movements - 1837 - 486 pages
...attention to the subject of slavery ; that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone, in this land of freedom, are degraded into perpetual bondage, and who, amidst the general joy of surrounding freedom, are groaning in servile subjection ; that you will promote... | |
| Theology - 1839 - 418 pages
...without distinction of color," &tc., they entreat Congress " to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone in this land of freedom are degraded into perpetual bondage," fkc., " and that you will step to the very verge of the power vested in you for discouraging every... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames - Enslaved persons - 1839 - 160 pages
...degraded into perpetual bondage, and who amidst the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groanmg in servile subjection — that you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from the character of the American people — that you will promote mercy and justice toward this distressed... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy - Slavery - 1843 - 598 pages
...Httontion to the subject of slavery ; that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone in this land of freedom, are degraded into perpetual bondage, and who amidst the generally of surrounding freemen, are groamng in servile subjection — that you will devise... | |
| Richard Hildreth - United States - 1849 - 744 pages
...attention to the subject of slavery, that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men who alone, in this land of freedom,...perpetual bondage, and who, amid the general joy of sur* rounding freemen, are groaning in servile subjection ; that you will devise means for removing... | |
| Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 494 pages
...attention to the subject of Slavery ; that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone, in this land of Freedom, are degraded into perpetual bondage, and who, amidst the general joy of surrounding freeman, are groaning in servile subjection ; that you will promote... | |
| Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 436 pages
...earliest Congress under the Constitution, praying it " to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone, in this land of freedom, are degraded into perpetual bondage ; and to step to the very verge of the power vested in them for discouraging every species of traffic in... | |
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