Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: To Propose Amendments to the Constitution, Commenced ... at Harrisburg, on the Second Day of May, 1837, Volumen9Packer, Barrett, and Parke, 1838 |
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... black faced or a black headed man- whether his skin was white , black or yellow . What , sir , is a petition ? It is a prayer a supplication - to those in power to do justice to those who are under the laws . Then is the black man not ...
... black faced or a black headed man- whether his skin was white , black or yellow . What , sir , is a petition ? It is a prayer a supplication - to those in power to do justice to those who are under the laws . Then is the black man not ...
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... blacks , ought not to entitle them to be treated with any more marked respect than others . For these reasons , he should vote against the printing in all cases of a similar character . Mr. MEREDITH said , that he had made the motion to ...
... blacks , ought not to entitle them to be treated with any more marked respect than others . For these reasons , he should vote against the printing in all cases of a similar character . Mr. MEREDITH said , that he had made the motion to ...
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... Black , late sergeant - at - arms of the senate , for the sum of two hundred and eighty - two dollars and fifty cents , in full for one hundred and thirteen days ' services in the senate chamber , during the sessions of the convention ...
... Black , late sergeant - at - arms of the senate , for the sum of two hundred and eighty - two dollars and fifty cents , in full for one hundred and thirteen days ' services in the senate chamber , during the sessions of the convention ...
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... black , is the degradation of the white man ; and by endeavor- ing to alter the order of nature , we would , in all probability , bring about a war between the races — a state of things that every lover of his country must regret . Sir ...
... black , is the degradation of the white man ; and by endeavor- ing to alter the order of nature , we would , in all probability , bring about a war between the races — a state of things that every lover of his country must regret . Sir ...
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... black , is to degrade the white people ; and from misrepresentation of the state of the black slaves , and a want of ... blacks . He wished the question settled at once , and proclaimed abroad , that there is a wide difference between ...
... black , is to degrade the white people ; and from misrepresentation of the state of the black slaves , and a want of ... blacks . He wished the question settled at once , and proclaimed abroad , that there is a wide difference between ...
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Página 381 - And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
Página 381 - And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
Página 43 - Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the senate and assembly ; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals with the yeas...
Página 382 - And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42. For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt : they shall not be sold as bondmen.
Página 381 - And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee ; then thou shalt relieve him : yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. Take thou no usury of him, or increase : but fear thy God ; that thy brother may live with thee. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase...
Página 334 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Página 129 - ... there is no foundation in nature or in natural law, why a set of words upon parchment should convey the dominion of land...
Página 4 - Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior; and with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member, but not a second time for the same causa, and shall have all other powers necessary for a branch of the Legislature of a free State.
Página 224 - The returns of every election for Governor shall be sealed up, and transmitted to the seat of government...
Página 332 - I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law.