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Page 380 - That the people have a right to assemble together, in a peaceable manner, to consult for their common good, to instruct their representatives, and to apply to the legislature for redress of grievances.
Page 433 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 525 - No person shall be accused, arrested, or detained, except in cases ascertained by law. and according to the forms which the same has prescribed: and no person shall be punished, but in virtue of a law, established and promulgated prior to the offence, and legally applied.
Page 423 - The power of the master must be absolute, to render the submission of the slave perfect. I most freely confess my sense of the harshness of this proposition. I feel it as deeply as any man can. And as a principle of moral right, every person in his retirement must repudiate it.
Page 456 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference) The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Page 434 - If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shall surely bring it back to him again.
Page 250 - Islands hereinafter mentioned shall be restored without delay and without causing any destruction or carrying away any of the Artillery or other public property originally captured in the said forts or places and which shall remain therein upon the Exchange of the Ratifications of...
Page 222 - ... barbarians as they are, that if chance shall throw any of them into our hands, he may expect a felon's death.
Page 162 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the states; it remaining with the several states alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Page 456 - The benevolence of your heart, my dear Marquis, is so conspicuous upon all occasions that I never wonder at any fresh proofs of it ; but your late purchase of an estate in the Colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country ! But I despair of seeing it.