But they are men, and no plea of private advantage or public policy can justify their enslavement, or palliate the enormities committed in stealing them from their native country, subduing them to obedience, and working them as if they were beasts in... The village; a poem. With an appendix - 99 ページEnoch Lincoln 著 - 1816 - 12 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
| Maine Historical Society - 1890 - 514 ページ
...native country, subduing them to obedience, and working them as if they were beasts in human shape. ... It is idle to talk of legal restraints upon men whose...tolerate servitude, you cannot separate from it the horrors of barbarous tyranny." These are true and forceful words, and when we consider that they were... | |
| Maine Historical Society - 1890 - 500 ページ
...native country, subduing them to obedience, and working them as if they were beasts in human shape. ... It is idle to talk of legal restraints upon men whose...tolerate servitude, you cannot separate from it the horrors of barbarous tyranny." These are true and forceful words, and when we consider that they were... | |
| Maine Historical Society - 1890 - 504 ページ
...native country, s'ubduing them to obedience, and working them as if they were beasts in human shape. ... It is idle to talk of legal restraints upon men whose...would be evasive through interest and corruption, of tbe latter, excluded by law. Indeed when you have given power, you will legislate in vain about its... | |
| Charles Eugene Hamlin - 1899 - 692 ページ
...native country, subduing them to obedience, and working them, as though they were beasts in human form. It is idle to talk of legal restraints upon men whose...tolerate servitude, you cannot separate from it the horror of barbarous tyranny." This was more than an acute warning and true prophecy ; it was a judgment... | |
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