| Slavery - 1837 - 340 pages
...face of the earth ;' — ' that all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights ; and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." " We believe that slavery is an evil now ; and, of course, the slaves ought... | |
| United States - 1838 - 410 pages
...the sublime maxim, ' that all men are created free and equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' If in no instance we have transgressed this axiom of democratic liberty,... | |
| James Gillespie Birney, Franklin Harper Elmore - American Anti-Slavery Society - 1838 - 104 pages
...truths to be self-evident— that all men are created equal— that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights— and that, among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' " 3 2044 019 100 759 The borrower must return this item on or before the... | |
| United States - 1838 - 418 pages
...the sublime maxim, ' that all men are created free and equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' If in no instance we have transgressed this axiom of democratic liberty,... | |
| William Huffington - Delaware - 1839 - 500 pages
...existance of man, that '-All men are created free and equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And, that to secure these rights governments were instituted among men, deriving... | |
| John Quincy Adams - Amistad (Schooner) - 1841 - 140 pages
...United States stand before the world 1 That DECLARATION says that every man is " endowed by his Creator with certain inalienable rights," and that <: among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." If these rights are inalienable, they are incompatible with the rights of... | |
| George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...truths to be self-evident,— that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' He then goes on to state that the interdiction of the African slave trade... | |
| Thomas C. Thornton - Slavery - 1841 - 358 pages
...your honour to preside. "The great doctrine that 'God hath created all men equal, and' endowed them with certain inalienable rights, and that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness/ is affirmed in your Declaration of Independence, and justified in the theory... | |
| Wilson Armistead - African Americans - 1848 - 668 pages
...these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and that among these are, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' Here, was a time in which your tender feelings for yourselves had engaged... | |
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