The Friend of Peace, Volume 2Joseph T. Buckingham, 1821 - Peace Includes the 1st-12th annual reports of the Massachusetts Peace Society. |
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... land of boasted liberty and equal rights ? If a man must be a conscript and deprived of personal liberty , without any crime on his own part , why may he not as well be the conscript of one despotism as another ? Military con- scription ...
... land of boasted liberty and equal rights ? If a man must be a conscript and deprived of personal liberty , without any crime on his own part , why may he not as well be the conscript of one despotism as another ? Military con- scription ...
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... land of liberty and equal rights ? What class of men on earth have more cause to complain of a violation of personal rights than those who are seduced or compelled to serve in regular armies or in ships of war ? If these unfortunate ...
... land of liberty and equal rights ? What class of men on earth have more cause to complain of a violation of personal rights than those who are seduced or compelled to serve in regular armies or in ships of war ? If these unfortunate ...
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... land , they will inflict these retaliatory evils on persons who never injured them . If the gospel had required revenge as positively as it has forbidden it , what worse might have been expected of christian nations , than they have ...
... land , they will inflict these retaliatory evils on persons who never injured them . If the gospel had required revenge as positively as it has forbidden it , what worse might have been expected of christian nations , than they have ...
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... land , and be made to reach , at least by echo , the ears of every man who has any concern in the government of our nation . We therefore repeat them : - " However fond we may have been of accusing the Indians of treachery and ...
... land , and be made to reach , at least by echo , the ears of every man who has any concern in the government of our nation . We therefore repeat them : - " However fond we may have been of accusing the Indians of treachery and ...
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... land inhabited indeed by sav- age men , but men who are susceptible of being won by kind- ness , and with whom we might live in harmony , if we would but follow the dictates of our own religion , or even pursue our true interest . But ...
... land inhabited indeed by sav- age men , but men who are susceptible of being won by kind- ness , and with whom we might live in harmony , if we would but follow the dictates of our own religion , or even pursue our true interest . But ...
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Page 17 - Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
Page 33 - It was but a very few years ago that this territory wore the most pleasing appearance. The Country was cultivated, the peasant looked cheerful, and the towns abounded with riches and festivity. "What an alteration at present from such a charming scene ! I am not expert at description, nor can my fancy add any horrors to the picture; but sure even conquerors themselves would weep at the hideous prospect now before me.
Page 40 - But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 28 - And all merchant and trading vessels employed in exchanging the products of different places, and thereby rendering the necessaries, conveniences and comforts of human life more easy to be obtained, and more general, shall be allowed to pass free and unmolested, and neither of the contracting powers shall grant or issue any commission to any private armed vessels empowering them to take or destroy such trading vessels, or interrupt such commerce.
Page 32 - Mecklenburg with desolation. I know, Sire, that it seems unbecoming my sex, in this age of vicious refinement, to feel for one's country, to lament the horrors of war, or wish for the return of peace. I know you may think it more properly my province to study the...
Page 7 - This was the first blood spilt in that fatal quarrel, which was not finished in less than a course of thirty years ; which was signalized by twelve pitched battles ; which opened a scene of extraordinary fierceness and cruelty ; is computed to have cost the lives of eighty princes of the blood ; and almost entirely annihilated the ancient nobility of England...
Page 36 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.
Page 36 - ... between people who, though separated by an ocean, and under different governments, have the same language, a similar religion, and kindred blood. I beg your majesty's permission to add, that although I have sometimes before been entrusted by my country, it was never, in my whole life, in a manner so agreeable to myself.
Page 36 - Sir, the circumstances of this audience are so extraordinary, the language you have now held is so extremely proper, and the feelings you have discovered so justly adapted to the occasion, that I must say, that I not only receive with pleasure the assurance of the friendly disposition of the United States, but that I am very glad the choice has fallen upon you to be their minister.