The Potent Enemies of America Laid Open: Being Some Account of the Baneful Effects Attending the Use of Distilled Spirituous Liquors, and the Slavery of the Negroes |
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Page 54 - Liberty is the right of every human creature, as soon as he breathes the vital air. And no human law can deprive him of that right, which he derives from the law of nature.
Page 52 - I pay honestly for my goods; and I am not concerned to know how they are come by." Nay, but you are; you are deeply concerned to know they are honestly come by. Otherwise you are a partaker with a thief, and are not a jot honester than him.
Page 34 - Every sale implies a price, a ' quid pro quo,' an equivalent given to the seller in lieu of what he transfers to the buyer : but what equivalent can be given for life, and liberty, both of which (in absolute slavery) are held to be in the master's disposal?
Page 54 - If, therefore, you have any regard to justice, (to say nothing of mercy, nor the revealed law of God,) render unto all their due. Give liberty to whom liberty is due, that is, to every child of man, to every partaker of human nature.
Page 46 - And what pains have you taken, what methods have you used, to reclaim them from their wickedness ? Have you carefully taught them that there is a God, a wise, powerful, merciful Being, the Creator and Governor of heaven and earth ? that he has appointed a day wherein he will judge the world ; will take an account of all our thoughts, words, and actions ? that in that day he will reward every child of man according to his works ? that then the righteous shall inherit the kingdom prepared for them...
Page 9 - Negroes reclined under the shade of their spreading foliage; the simplicity of their dress and manners; the whole revived in my mind the idea of our first parents, and I seemed to contemplate the world in its primitive state: They are, generally speaking, very goodnatured, sociable and obliging.
Page 17 - Guinea" on this account. The first is taken verbatim from the original manuscript of the surgeon's journal : — " Sestro, Dec. 29, 1724. — No trade to-day, though many traders came on board. They informed us, that the people are gone to war within land, and will bring prisoners enough in two or three days ; in hopes of which we stay.
Page 55 - Arise, and help these that have no helper, whose blood is spilt upon the ground like water ! Are not these also the work of thine own hands, the purchase of thy Son's blood ? Stir them up to cry unto thee in the land of their captivity ; and let their complaint come up before thee ; let it enter into thy ears...
Page 79 - ... unbenefited by them. Be so gracious then, ye petty tyrants over human freedom, to let your slaves judge for themselves, what it is which makes their own happiness. And then see whether they do not place it in the return to their own country, rather than in the contemplation of your grandeur, of which their misery makes so large a part. A return...
Page 51 - To-day resolve, God being your helper, to escape for your life. Regard not money ! All that a man hath will he give for his life ! Whatever you lose, lose not your soul : nothing can countervail that loss. Immediately quit the horrid trade : at all events, be an honest man.