Autographs for Freedom, by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thirty-five Other Eminent Writers
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Autographs for Freedom, by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thirty-five Other Eminent Writers
Antislavery movements -- United States; Slavery -- United States
“Is it not that thou deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring
the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked
that thou cover him? and that thou hide not thyself from thine own
flesh?” “If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the
putting forth of the finger, and speaking of vanity,” &c.—Isaiah
lviii. 6–9.
Footnote 5:
“Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,
do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.”—_Jesus
Christ._ Matt. vii. 12.
Footnote 6:
“Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped
from his master unto thee. He shall dwell with thee; even among you in
that place which he shall choose, in one of thy gates, where it liketh
him best; thou shalt not oppress him.”—Deut. xxiii. 15, 16.
Footnote 7:
“Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”—Lev. xix. 18; Matt. xix.
19.
Footnote 8:
“Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness; the people in whose
heart is my law: fear yet not the reproach of men, neither be ye
afraid of their revilings. For the moth shall eat them up like a
garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness
shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to
generation.”—Isaiah li. 7, 8.
Footnote 9:
“Ye that love the Lord, hate evil.”—Ps. xcvii. 10. “The fear of the
Lord is to hate evil.”—Prov. viii. 13.
Footnote 10:
“Who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a man? * * * And
forgettest the Lord thy Maker, * * * and has feared continually every
day, because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to
destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?”—Isa. li. 12, 13, 14.
Footnote 11:
“We ought to obey God rather than men.”—Acts v. 29.
Footnote 12:
“The captive exile hasteth that he maybe loosed,” &c.—Isa. li. 15.
Footnote 13:
Haynau.
Footnote 14:
Editor of the _Glasgow Courier_. Poor Motherwell! I have it from a
mutual friend that he sympathised _with_ the cause of Freedom, while
paid to write against it.
Footnote 15:
Daniel Webster’s oration, at the laying the corner-stone of Bunker
Hill Monument, 17 June, 1825.
Footnote 16:
Daniel Webster’s speech in the Senate of the U. S., 7 March, 1850.
Footnote 17:
Daniel Webster’s speech at the Capron Springs, Virginia, 1851.
Footnote 18:
It is vain to say that rich governments cannot, and do not, offer
effective temptations to clever and eloquent men, whose religious
views differ from the national form, to induce them to adopt the
latter.
Footnote 19:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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