 | Jean Fagan Yellin, John C. Van Horne - 1994 - 388 pagine
...opposition of moral purity to moral corruption, die destruction of error by the potency of truth, die overthrow of prejudice by the power of love, and the abolition of slavery by the spirit of repentance.2 Closely allied with the concept of nonresistance was the refusal to use the products of... | |
 | Steven Mintz - 1995 - 214 pagine
...moral evil. Abolitionists, Garrison proclaimed in his address "The 'Infidelity' of Abolition," sought "the destruction of error by the potency of truth...abolition of slavery by the spirit of repentance." To spread their ideas, they organized antislavery societies, distributed newspapers and tracts, and... | |
 | David Brion Davis - 1997 - 502 pagine
...were physical resistance— the marshalling in arms— the hostile array— the mortal encounter. Ours shall be such only as the opposition of moral purity...as they were, were trifling in comparison with the SOURCE: "Declaration of the National Anti-Slavery Convention," The Abolitionist, 1 (December, 18331,... | |
 | Carolyn L. Karcher - 1994 - 850 pagine
...relying solely upon those which are spiritual. . . . Their measures were physical resistance. . . . Ours shall be such only as the opposition of moral purity...abolition of slavery by the spirit of repentance. Besides committing the American Anti-Slavery Society to pacifist means, the Declaration of Sentiments... | |
 | Deborah C. De Rosa - 2003 - 220 pagine
...with the rhetoric of both the church and ideal womanhood. For example, its Declaration states: "Ours shall be such only as the opposition of moral purity to moral corruption—the destruction of error by the potency of truth—the overthrow of prejudice by the power... | |
 | Scot French - 2004 - 400 pagine
...physical resistance — the marshalling in arms — the hostile array — the mortal encounter. Ours shall be such only as the opposition of moral purity...abolition of slavery by the spirit of repentance. The new group went on to declare every slaveholder a "man-stealer" and every law upholding the right... | |
 | R. C. Smedley - 2005 - 486 pagine
...Ours shall be such only as the opposition ot moral purity to moral corruption — the destruction ot error by the potency of truth — the overthrow of...— and the abolition of slavery by the spirit of repentence. Their grievences, great as they were, were trifling in comparison with the wrongs and sufferings... | |
 | Michael P. Young - 2006 - 269 pagine
...Society. Fittingly, Garrison penned the society's "Declaration of Sentiments," dedicating the society to "the destruction of error by the potency of truth—...love— and the abolition of slavery by the spirit of repentance."30 The call for immediate abolition reverberated throughout organized benevolence. An early... | |
 | Catherine E. Wilson - 2008 - 302 pagine
...strong Christian impulse motivated the Society's Declaration in that delegates were roused to conquer "prejudice by the power of love — and the abolition of slavery by the spirit of repentance."65 Like the American Anti-Slavery Society, the rise of the Social Gospel Movement (1865-1913)... | |
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Ours shall be such only as the opposition of moral purity to moral corruption — the destruction of error by the potency of truth — the overthrow of prejudice by the power of love — and the abolition of slavery by the spirit of repentance. 
