 | Amos Augustus Phelps - 1834 - 296 Seiten
...increasing, and in time will effect a total revolution. And if we judge of the future by the fast, within fifty years from, this time, it will be as...slave, as to be guilty of common robbery or theft.' Yet more ; in 1793, there was a New-Jersey Society for promoting the abolition of slavery. Among other... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1834 - 24 Seiten
...revolution. And if we judge of the future hy the past, within fifty years from this time, it will he as shameful for a man to hold a negro slave, as to he guilty of common rohhery or theft.» But it is our duty to remove the ohstacles which intercept... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - 1836 - 194 Seiten
...every day guilty of robbing him of his liberty, or of man-stealing. — [Jonathan Edwards.] If we may judge of the future by the past, within fifty years...slave, as to be guilty of common robbery or theft. — [Jonathan Edwards, 1791.] Slavery is injustice, which no consideration of policy can extenuate.... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Weld - 1838 - 66 Seiten
...have openly and irrefragably pleaded the rights of humanity in this as well as other instances ? And if we judge of the future by the past, within fifty...this time, it will be as shameful for a man to hold a negrs slave, as to be guilty of common robbery or theft." " 1 Tim. i. 10. The law is made for manstealers.... | |
 | Jonathan Blanchard - 1846 - 526 Seiten
...may judge of the future from the past, within fifty years from this time.it will be as disgraceful for a man to hold a negro slave, as to be guilty of common robbery or theft!" This was in 1791. Fifty-four years ago, and the prophecy was as true as the logic of the discourse... | |
 | Jonathan Blanchard - 1846 - 538 Seiten
...the sight of God than concubinage or fornication." And again, " if we may judge of the future from the past, within fifty years from this time, it will be as disgraceful for a man to hold a negro slave, as to be guilty of common robbery or theft .'" This was... | |
 | 1841 - 432 Seiten
...go, to "the rcrij rc/T*e" of our power to abo- formed in 178U, and incorporated by act of the le- . a man to hold a negro slave as to be guilty of conilish, and where we cannot abolish, to "discourage" gislature in 1787 — Benjamin Franklin, president;... | |
 | William Goodell - 1852 - 810 Seiten
...nay, with " a greater crime than fornication, theft, or robbery." He predicts that, " if we may judge the future by the past, within fifty years from this...slave, as to be guilty of common robbery or theft." In an appendix, Dr. Edwards answers objections against immediate emancipation, just as modern abolitionists... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1852 - 90 Seiten
...he gladly thought at hand. " If we judge of the future by the past," said the celebrated preacher, " within fifty years from this time, it will be as shameful...slave, as to be guilty of common robbery or theft." Thus, at this time, the Church, in harmony with the Nation, by its leading denominations, Quakers,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards, Tryon Edwards - 1854 - 566 Seiten
...British parliament. This light is still increasing, and in time will effect a total revolution. And if we judge of the future by the past, within fifty...slave, as to be guilty of common robbery or theft. But it is our duty to remove the obstacles which intercept the rays of this light, that it may reach... | |
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This he gladly thought at hand. " If we judge of the future by the past," said the celebrated preacher, " within fifty years from this time, it will be as shameful for a man to hold a negro slave, as to be guilty of common robbery or theft. 
