 The General Court, conceiving themselves bound by the first opportunity to bear witness against the heinous and crying sin of man-stealing, as also to prescribe such timely redress for what...  Works - Page 36by John Brazer - 1843Full view - About this book
 | Joshua Coffin - 1845 - 438 pages
...the means of killing near one hundred more, the general court passed the following order, namely : ' The general court conceiving themselves bound by the...bear witness against the heinous, and crying sin of man stealing, as also to prescribe such timely redress for what is past, and such a law for the future,... | |
 | Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - 1851 - 842 pages
...fear and according to the law of God— a terror to evil-doers, and a praise to them that do well : " The General Court, conceiving themselves bound by...as also to prescribe such timely redress for what has past, and such a law for the future, as may sufficiently deter all others belonging to us, to have... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1854 - 452 pages
...and according to the law of God — a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well : — " The general court, conceiving themselves bound by...bear witness against the heinous and crying sin of man stealing, as also to prescribe such timely redress for what has passed, and such a law for the... | |
 | William Cooper Nell - 1855 - 416 pages
...ship had brought home two negroes, seized on the coast of Guinea. Thus spoke Massachusetts : — " ' The General Court, conceiving themselves bound by...against the heinous and crying sin of man-stealing, also, to prescribe such timely redress for what is past, and such a law for the future as may sufficiently... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1855 - 440 pages
...witness against the haynus and crying sinne of man-stealing, as also to prescribe such timely redresses for what is past, and such a law for the future as may deter others belonging to us to have to do in such vile and most odious courses, justly abhorred of... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1856 - 722 pages
...bound by the first opportunity to bear witness against the heinous and crying sin of man-stealing, also to prescribe such timely redress for what is...a law for the future as may sufficiently deter all those belonging to us, to have to do in such vile and most odious conduct, justly ahhorred of all good... | |
 | Joseph Clay Stiles - 1857 - 324 pages
...made loud protestations of her abhorrence of the crime. In 1646, the General Court of Massachusetts conceiving themselves bound by the first opportunity...against the heinous and crying sin of manstealing, etc., " do provide for the release of certain negroes unlawfully taken" and for their return "at the... | |
 | Joseph Clay Stiles - 1857 - 618 pages
...loud protestations of her abhorrence of the crime. • . ' In 1646, the General Court of Massachusetts conceiving themselves bound by the first opportunity...against the heinous and crying sin of manstealing, etc., " do provide for the release of certain negroes unlawfully taken" and for their return "at the... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 416 pages
...and according to the law of God, — a terror to evil-doers, and a praise to them that do well : — "The General Court, conceiving themselves bound by...as also to prescribe such timely redress for what has passed, and such a law for the future as may sufficiently deter all others belonging to us to have... | |
 | John Albion Andrew - 1869 - 538 pages
...their doings. The Court express their detestation of the act in the following pointed language : " The General Court, conceiving themselves bound by...bear witness against the heinous and crying sin of maruttoKng, as also to prescribe such timely redress for what is past, and such law for the future... | |
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