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Massachusetts will sustain her tried and faithful representative; and the time is not far distant when the best and worthiest citizens of the entire North will proffer him their thanks for his noble defence of their rights as freemen, and of the rights of the slave as a man. From a review of a pro-slavery pamphlet by "Evangelicus" in the Boston Emancipator in 1843.
Robert has not passed an evening from home since we came just as if we had never known Paris." The political condition of Italy was, indeed, a grief to both husband and wife. It was a state of utter prostration on all sides "the unanimity of despair." The Grand Duke, the emancipator, had acquired a respect and affection for the bayonets of Austria.
What is strongly in their minds is that a great surrender must be greatly made by the Emancipator. Jesus conceived of Himself as giving 'His life a ransom for the many. The emancipation must be a divine act. It surpasses any created power. There can be no happy pilgrims unless they are first set free. II. The end of the journey.
Two Invalides, each said to be a hundred years old, stood beside the Minister of War; and the bust of the emancipator of America was placed under the trophy composed of the flags of Aboukir. In a word, recourse was had to every sort of charlatanism usual on such occasions.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, March 1, 1838. Sir A newspaper, headed 'The Emancipator, in which you are announced the 'publishing agent, has, for some weeks past, arrived at the post office in this city, to my address.
At length some of the repalers and emancipators knowing that I was a first-rate hand at fiddling came to me, and tould me, that if I would give over playing "Croppies Lie Down" and other Orange tunes, and would play "Croppies Get Up," and what not, and become a Catholic and a repaler, and an emancipator, they would make a man of me so as my Orange trade was gone, and I was half-starved, I consinted, not however till they had introduced me to Daniel O'Connell, who called me a credit to my country, and the Irish Horpheus, and promised me a sovereign if I would consint to join the cause, as he called it.
'Ye'd have th' wurred on th' coffin lid, says I. 'Why, says he, 'think iv me, Schmitt, Owgoost Schmitt, stalkin' forth to avinge th' woes iv th' poor, he says. 'Loodwig, th' cursed, goes by. I jumps fr'm behind a three an' society is freed fr'm th' monsther, he says. 'Think iv th' glory iv it, he says. 'Owgoost Schmitt, emancipator, he says. 'I'll prove to Mary Ann that I'm a man, he says.
Lincoln did not understand the situation two weeks earlier quite as well as when the document appeared. If Mr. Lincoln had been told, when he entered on the Presidency, that before his term of office would expire he would be hailed as "The Great Emancipator," he would have treated the statement as equal to one of his own best jokes. Slavery was a thing he did not then want to have disturbed.
Before you leave the Presidential chair recommend to Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this."
"Principle! begad, sir," retorted the uncle, "there's no such thing as principle lay that down as a fact there's no such thing in this world as principle." "Well, but consistency, uncle. For instance, you know you always vote on the Tory side, and Chevydale is a Liberal and an Emancipator." "Consistency is all d d stuff, Harry, as principle.
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