Book/Printed Material "The higher law," in its application to the Fugitive slave bill: a sermon on the duties men owe to God and to governments, delivered at the Central Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, on Thanksgiving-Day, African American Pamphlet Collection copy
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Image 1 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy “THE HIGHER LAW,” IN ITS APPLICATION TO THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL. A SERMON ON THE DUTIES, MEN OWE TO GOD AND TO GOVERNMENTS. DELIVERED AT THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, BUFFALO, ON THANKSGIVING-DAY.…- Contributor: Lord, John C. (John Chase) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Union Safety Committee
- Date: 1851
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Image 2 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy- Contributor: Lord, John C. (John Chase) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Union Safety Committee
- Date: 1851
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Image 3 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy SERMON. Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cæsar, or not? But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? Show me…- Contributor: Lord, John C. (John Chase) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Union Safety Committee
- Date: 1851
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Image 4 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 4 of their dependence upon Him in “whom they live and move and have their being,” so regardless of all the goodness and mercy of God, that they never darken the doors…- Contributor: Lord, John C. (John Chase) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Union Safety Committee
- Date: 1851
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Image 5 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 5 to laws, passed by their own representatives to sustain an express provision of the Constitution of the United States, which, if defective in their details, are yet clearly within the delegated…- Contributor: Lord, John C. (John Chase) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Union Safety Committee
- Date: 1851
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Image 6 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 6 appropriate jurisdiction is final and conclusive upon the citizen; and that, to plead a higher law to justify disobedience to a human law, the subject matter of which is within the…- Contributor: Lord, John C. (John Chase) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Union Safety Committee
- Date: 1851
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Image 7 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 7 recently made in Europe, to adopt our institutions, without the moral training and preparation which can alone make them either possible or valuable. France, to-day, is a despotism under the forms…- Contributor: Lord, John C. (John Chase) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Union Safety Committee
- Date: 1851
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Image 8 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 8 were not only despotic in their general administration but peculiarly oppressive in their treatment of the infant church. The government under which our Saviour and the Apostles lived, and of which…- Contributor: Lord, John C. (John Chase) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Union Safety Committee
- Date: 1851
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Image 9 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 9 despotic or democratic. That, under certain circumstances, the people, by which is meant the large majority, have a right to revolutionize a government, is conceded. Presbyterians have ever resisted the High…- Contributor: Lord, John C. (John Chase) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Union Safety Committee
- Date: 1851
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Image 10 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 10 to the fallen condition of our race, such as War and Slavery, the existence of which is to be regretted, but which are necessarily, in the actual condition of mankind, the…- Contributor: Lord, John C. (John Chase) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Union Safety Committee
- Date: 1851
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Image 11 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 11 our Lord and the Apostles, are antiquated and of no binding force upon the consciences of men. Such honest but mistaken persons should remember, that if the institution of slavery is…- Contributor: Lord, John C. (John Chase) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Union Safety Committee
- Date: 1851
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Image 12 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 12 aroused in regard to a higher law than the Constitution, should have forgotten, in their contemplation of moral and religious questions, that the observance of the compact between the North and…- Contributor: Lord, John C. (John Chase) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Union Safety Committee
- Date: 1851
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Image 13 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 13 dent that the great body of the people at the South are attached to the Union, and will not readily yield it; but it is equally manifest that they have demagogues…- Contributor: Lord, John C. (John Chase) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Union Safety Committee
- Date: 1851
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Image 14 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 14 prosperous people. We have maintained peace at home, and commanded respect abroad; our country has been the asylum of the oppressed of every land, the permanency of our institutions has been…- Contributor: Lord, John C. (John Chase) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Union Safety Committee
- Date: 1851
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Image 15 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 15 prevail over the South, it would be by making a desert of the territory from the Potomac to the Gulf of Mexico, and by the destruction of both the races who…- Contributor: Lord, John C. (John Chase) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Union Safety Committee
- Date: 1851
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Image 16 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 16 Yorktown and Saratoga, at Trenton and Charlestown, by the farewell counsels of the immortal Washington, to lay aside their animosities and to remember that they are brethren. I would remind them…- Contributor: Lord, John C. (John Chase) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Union Safety Committee
- Date: 1851
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Image 17 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy- Contributor: Lord, John C. (John Chase) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Union Safety Committee
- Date: 1851
About this Item
Title
- "The higher law," in its application to the Fugitive slave bill: a sermon on the duties men owe to God and to governments, delivered at the Central Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, on Thanksgiving-Day,
Names
- Lord, John C. (John Chase), 1805-1877.
- Union Safety Committee.
- African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- New-York, Published by order of the "Union Safety Committee," 1851.
Headings
- - United States.--Fugitive slave law (1850)
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 16 p. 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E450 .L86
- E185 .A254 container L, no. 164 Another copy. Formerly part of YA Collection: YA 15476. Source unknown.
Library of Congress Control Number
- 16009251
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- African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Lord, John C. (John Chase)
- Union Safety Committee