The Remedy for Duelling: A Sermon, Delivered Before the Presbytery of Long-Island, at the Opening of Their Session, at Aquebogue, April 16, 1806 |
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... execution . Do you inquire how ? By withholding your suffrages from every man whose hands are stained with blood , and by intrusting to men of fair character and moral principle the making and execu- tion of your laws . It will ...
... execution . Do you inquire how ? By withholding your suffrages from every man whose hands are stained with blood , and by intrusting to men of fair character and moral principle the making and execu- tion of your laws . It will ...
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... executed wantonly , without judge or jury , as many as have fallen in duels . What sensations would such conduct have excited ? Had it depended on our votes merely , would England have continued to legislate ? And shall lawless despots ...
... executed wantonly , without judge or jury , as many as have fallen in duels . What sensations would such conduct have excited ? Had it depended on our votes merely , would England have continued to legislate ? And shall lawless despots ...
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... execution to men who are the first to break them , is a farce too ridiculous to be acted by freemen . In voting for the duellist , you patronize a criminal whom , in your law , you have doomed to die . With one hand you erect the ...
... execution to men who are the first to break them , is a farce too ridiculous to be acted by freemen . In voting for the duellist , you patronize a criminal whom , in your law , you have doomed to die . With one hand you erect the ...
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... execution , upon the spirit of the people . The highway robber need not to publish his daring exploits in a newspaper ... execute the law , but we do not compel them . Our rulers and great men know perfect- ly our debilitated state , and ...
... execution , upon the spirit of the people . The highway robber need not to publish his daring exploits in a newspaper ... execute the law , but we do not compel them . Our rulers and great men know perfect- ly our debilitated state , and ...
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... execute ? Is there any such difficulty in bringing to justice the thief , the robber , and the common murderer ? I tell you , nay . The traitor is in the citadel ; we have our- selves put him there , knowing also that he would let the ...
... execute ? Is there any such difficulty in bringing to justice the thief , the robber , and the common murderer ? I tell you , nay . The traitor is in the citadel ; we have our- selves put him there , knowing also that he would let the ...
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abhorrence alarming ANTI-DUELLING ASSOCIATION appointed arrest assassination ASSOCIATION OF NEW-YORK avenger avenger of blood awake become blessing blood candidates cause challenge christian churches civil liberty committee common conduct confidence conscience crime of duelling criminal despise despotic destroy disgrace dreaded duellist effect efficacy election Elevate ellists equal laws evil example exertion favour fear feelings fluence gallows guilt guilty men hands are stained hath heaven impunity individual infamy influence insulted intrust JOHN BROOME judgments justice land LEBBEUS LOOMIS legislate maxims ment moral character moral principle murder nation neighbour officers of government party patriotism penalty perjury phalanx pledge political practice of duelling PRESBYTERY prevalence of duelling profess protection public mind public opinion punish reason rectitude religion remedy rence restrain revenge reward rulers savage spirit stand temptation things tion turned away backward University of California unprincipled vate victim voice vote widow withhold our suffrage
Popular passages
Page 26 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 32 - Shall I not visit for these things ? saith the Lord : shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Page 40 - Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; Cease to do evil; learn to do well; Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 4 - If you thus behave yourselves, and so become a terror to evil doers and a praise to them that do well...
Page 2 - And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off ; for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Page 5 - And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Page 6 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.
Page 37 - Every year the duellist is cutting down the neighbor of somebody. Every year, and many times in the year, a father is brought dead or dying to his family, or a son laid breathless at the feet of his parents ; and every year you are patronizing by your votes...
Page 37 - ... would you then think the crime a small one ? Would you honor with your confidence, and elevate to power by your vote, the guilty monster ? And what would you think of your...
Page 36 - And now let me ask you solemnly ; with these considerations in view, will you persist in your attachment to these guilty men ? Will you any longer, either deliberately or thoughtlessly, vote for them ? Will you renounce allegiance to your maker, and cast the bible behind your back? Will you confide in men void of the fear of God and destitute of moral principle? Will you intrust life to MURDERERS — liberty to DESPOTS?