The gospel of slavery : a primer of freedom . perished shall then be the Slavery man stand erect in the image of God. Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the deserta highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and ev-ery mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shallbe made straight, and the rough places plain ; and the glory ofthe Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together;for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.—Isaiah xl. 3—5. \t, • • rv ni ^5^00^ olLo^l. A Stands for Adam, Creation beganBy giving dominion of ISTatnre to
The gospel of slavery : a primer of freedom . perished shall then be the Slavery man stand erect in the image of God. Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the deserta highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and ev-ery mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shallbe made straight, and the rough places plain ; and the glory ofthe Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together;for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.—Isaiah xl. 3—5. \t, • • rv ni ^5^00^ olLo^l. A Stands for Adam, Creation beganBy giving dominion of ISTatnre to differ in color, and stature, and weight,IS^or equal are all in their talent or state,But equal in rights are the great and the smallIn sight of the God and Creator of how comes dominion of brother by brother?Or how can the one be the lord of the other?Consider it well—for an answer I reaches the question of Master and Slave. We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men arecreated equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with cer-tain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, andthe p-irsuit of haiDpiness.—Decl. of Ind. It is nothing to affirmthat the Negro, or Indian, or Arab, is not equal to the whiteman—narnely, in talent and the Hke. No two wJiiie men areequal in all respects—^but if you deny an equality of rights, spe-cify the grounds of such deniaL
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