 | 1833 - 370 pages
...remonstrating against the contemplated measure that is to exile us from the land of our nativity, &c. ' Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of Ame* rica, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1895 - 682 pages
...choice, the first cultivators of the wilds of America, and we, their descendants, claim a right to share in the blessings of her luxuriant soil which their blood and sweat manured. We read with deep abhorrence the unmerited stigma, attempted to be cast on the reputation of the free... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1924 - 680 pages
...choice, the first cultivators of the wilds of America, and we, their descendants, claim a right to share in the blessings of her luxuriant soil which their blood and sweat manured. We read with deep abhorrence the unmerited stigma, attempted to be cast on the reputation of the free... | |
 | August Meier, Elliott Rudwick - 1976 - 422 pages
...people had "ceased to remember their wrongs and rallied around the standard of their country. . . . Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first...principles, which have been the boast of this republic. . . ." They declared that their cause could not be divorced from their brothers in bondage— with... | |
 | Steven Mintz - 1995 - 214 pages
...adopted resolutions bitterly denouncing colonization as a policy "little more merciful than death": "Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first...participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil. . . . We never will separate ourselves voluntarily from the slave population in this country." By the... | |
 | David Brion Davis - 1997 - 502 pages
...following resolutions were adopted, without one dissenting voice. Whereas our ancestors (not of choicel were the first successful cultivators of the wilds...those principles, which have been the boast of this republie. Resolved, That we view with deep abhorrence the unmerited stigma attempted to be cast upon... | |
 | Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, WGBH Series Research Team - 1999 - 554 pages
...community's voice was unwavering in its strength: Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants...of those principles, which have been the boast of the republick. [It is resolved] That we never will separate ourselves voluntarily from the slave population... | |
 | Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham - 1998 - 952 pages
...James Forten, presided at the meeting, and the following is an extract from their proceedings: — "Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first...of her luxuriant soil, which their blood and sweat enriched; and that any measure, or system of measures, having a tendency to banish us from her bosom... | |
 | Komozi Woodard - 1999 - 356 pages
...assembly proudly declared its sense of identity, birthright, self-worth, and critical republicanism: Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first...principles, which have been the boast of this republic. ... we never will separate ourselves voluntarily from the slave population in this country; they are... | |
 | Timothy B. Powell - 2000 - 240 pages
...Richard Allen, and Absalom Jones, published a series of resolutions among which was this declaration: "Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first...of her luxuriant soil, which their blood and sweat manured."32 In spite of such protests the ACS was able to find a significant number of African Americans... | |
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America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil, which their blood and sweat manured; and that any measure or system of measures, having a tendency to banish us from her bosom, would not only... 
