 | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends - 1851 - 160 pages
...nation, to cut us loose from all participation in this most accursed traffic; and I again repeat my 131 conviction, that this end can only be accomplished...the Slaver's touch, when it may be done by merely topping off a trade comparatively contemptible in extent, bloodstained in character, and in which none... | |
 | Robert Edgar Conrad - 2010 - 542 pages
...to a neighboring nation, to cut us loose from all participation in this most accursed traffic. . . . Hundreds of thousands of American bosoms would be bared to resent an insult offered ro our flag by a foreign foe; and shall we hesitate to rescue that same glorious banner from the foul... | |
 | 1851 - 664 pages
...owes to a neighboring nation to cut us loose from all participation in this most accursed traffic; and I again repeat my conviction that this end can...and the abandoned may be presumed to participate? J have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. JOHN M. CLAYTON, /Secretary... | |
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... known to the law would be hailed as \ mercy's boon. But I do appeal to my government as it regards the obligation devolving upon it to preserve the American escutcheon unsullied, and the duty it owes to a neighboring nation to cut us loose from all... 