The African Repository, Band 24American Colonization Society., 1848 |
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... important reasons , delegated to it certain political pow- ers ; while this institution stipulated that whenever the people should be- come capable of conducting the go- vernment , or whenever the people should desire it , this ...
... important reasons , delegated to it certain political pow- ers ; while this institution stipulated that whenever the people should be- come capable of conducting the go- vernment , or whenever the people should desire it , this ...
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... importance and magnitude of the work submitted to our hands , and have done the very best we could in order to afford general satis- faction . In view of the peculiarity of our circumstances , the new position we have assumed , is ...
... importance and magnitude of the work submitted to our hands , and have done the very best we could in order to afford general satis- faction . In view of the peculiarity of our circumstances , the new position we have assumed , is ...
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... importance for us to know where , and by whom this effort is to be made . We need , and if we are wise , we will seek the sympathy and friendly countenance of foreign nations . It will be encouraging to be recognised as forming one in ...
... importance for us to know where , and by whom this effort is to be made . We need , and if we are wise , we will seek the sympathy and friendly countenance of foreign nations . It will be encouraging to be recognised as forming one in ...
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... important considerations , what the future will be . In casting the eye back upon the history of our race , and tracing its annals to the present , a dark spot , which fills the whole retina , immediately arrests our attention a spot ...
... important considerations , what the future will be . In casting the eye back upon the history of our race , and tracing its annals to the present , a dark spot , which fills the whole retina , immediately arrests our attention a spot ...
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... while theirs is a nobler celebra- tion , we will hand down their names and deeds to unborn generations . Fellow citizens - we have arrived at an important crisis . We have as- sumed a 24 [ January , An Oration - by Rev. J. S. Payne .
... while theirs is a nobler celebra- tion , we will hand down their names and deeds to unborn generations . Fellow citizens - we have arrived at an important crisis . We have as- sumed a 24 [ January , An Oration - by Rev. J. S. Payne .
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Seite 52 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Seite 4 - ... whenever these great objects are not obtained, the people have a right to alter the government, and to take measures necessary for their safety, prosperity, and happiness.
Seite 53 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them ; thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Seite 5 - The liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state': it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this commonwealth.
Seite 5 - The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence: and as, in time of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the legislature ; and the military power shall always be held in an exact subordination to the civil authority, and be governed by it.
Seite 291 - where two or three are gathered together in His name, there He is in the midst of them," and a pleasure to observe how very general the attendance upon divine worship is among these people.
Seite 5 - No subsidy, charge, tax, impost, or duties ought to be established, fixed, laid, or levied, under any pretext whatsoever, without the consent of the people or their representatives in the legislature.
Seite 11 - Sec. 15. The improvement of the native tribes and their advancement in the arts of agriculture and husbandry being a cherished object of this Government, it shall be the duty of the President to appoint in each county some discreet person, ! whose duty it shall be to make regular and periodical tours through the country, for the purpose of calling the attention of the natives to...
Seite 4 - All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent and indefeasible rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing and protecting property and reputation, and of pursuing their own happiness.
Seite 6 - IN order to prevent those, who are vested with authority, from becoming oppressors, the people have a right, at such periods and in such manner as they shall establish by their frame of government, to cause their public officers to return to private life; and to fill up vacant places by certain and regular elections and appointments.