Book/Printed Material Rights of the coloured race to citizenship and representation; and the guilt and consequences of legislation against them : a discourse delivered in the Hall of Representatives of the United States, in Washington, D.C., May 29, 1864 African American Pamphlet Collection copy
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Image 1 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy RIGHTS OF THE COLOURED RACE TO CITIZENSHIP AND REPRESENTATION; AND THE GUILT AND CONSEQUENCES OF LEGISLATION AGAINST THEM. A DISCOURSE DELIVERED IN THE Hall of Representatives of the United States, in Washington,…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 2 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 3 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy RIGHTS OF THE COLOURED RACE, AND THE IMPIETY OF LEGISLATION AGAINST THEM. Ezekiel —xxii: 29, 30, 31. The People of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery, and have vexed the…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 4 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 4 our own, to the benefits of a republican form of government; and the inevitable consequences, if we do not repent, and execute justice for them, without respect to persons. COUNTS OF…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 5 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 5 things, and the princes hear rule by their means, and the people choose to have it so. Now, considering the known and admitted object of government, as ordained of God, to…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 6 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 6 nation did not then number so many as the millions whom we have since then reduced to slavery, and whom we now propose, amidst the very fire of the judgments of…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 7 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 7 moment of that impious pledge, we never have had one moment's peace or union. The rebellion broke out, yet we continued to affirm and obey our pledge, adding that we could…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 8 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 8 forbids them from acting on moral considerations. Washington regarded moral considerations as the first and highest, and all others, indeed, as based on those. He never dreamed of any power of…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 9 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 9 forbear from interfering against slavery, and to maintain an alleged compact with the enslavers? Christianity so taught is caricatured, and may sit at the feet of Paganism itself for light. Let…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 10 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 10 Theology, in that wondrous literature, which always regarded the science of divine law as the noblest subject of thought and culture among literary men and statesmen. Consider how far in advance…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 11 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 11 so-called, and a virtue of which we might be proud, as being the product of the largest liberty and the purest Christian faith. The peculiar structure of our Government, compounded of…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 12 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 12 of unrighteousness, as the falsification of the divine statutes by the corrupt and wicked practices of those who boasted of them. And just so, the product of our republicanism and Christianity,…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 13 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 13 action in time of peace. There never was such a dictum advanced by any despotism as that government had no right to interfere against slavery in a time of peace, or…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 14 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 14 this question.” In 1864, we declare that the end of government for the whites is attained by this very tyranny, and that the liberty and fights of four millions of blacks…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 15 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 15 It has been publicly averred by Americans of distinction, not only at home but in Europe, that such is the peculiar structure of our government, that we are prevented from interfering…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 16 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 16 plead guilty to such an enormity as being the nature of our republicanism, unless, being given the opportunity, we emancipate the slaves, as an act of justice, and the requirement of…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 17 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 17 race, to be forever oppressed, because of their colour. Fourth, in legislation for and over the District of Columbia and the city of Washington, excluding coloured citizens there, forever, on account…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 18 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 18 principle into legislation, prevents them from taxing whiskey on hand, and whose watchfulness for the purity of a republican government, constrains them to rob four millions of free persons of their…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 19 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 19 them the restoration of all their rights, and among others the right of eternal despotism over the coloured objects of their tyranny. For they may exercise this despotism, as fully and…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 20 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 20 fathers of your own freedom, is perhaps the most diabolical element of all in the concoction of this wickedness, the most insulting towards the majesty of God, the most fraudful against…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 21 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 21 persons of the dearest rights of freedom, on account of the colour of the parents descending to the children. In the first place, the taking away of such rights from the…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 22 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 22 colour is the extreme of injustice and wrong. In the bill providing a republican government no colour should have been mentioned. To mention it, in order to exclude the coloured race…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 23 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 23 alone shall exercise it. They need not have legislated on the subject at all. There was no call for it. It is a crusade against the coloured race, doubly and inexcusably…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 24 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 24 this nation to protect, in all the privileges of free citizens, under a representative government, the free subjects of the province thus ceded. Among these are many thousands of free coloured…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 25 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 25 his natural and moral condition. The men that could put this into the power of legislation would be prepared to add slavery, if found necessary to carry out their plan of…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 26 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 26 day. The plague is gone forth for such impiety. It is as if the leaders of the people had raked the embers still smoking with the half consumed carcasses of Achan…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 27 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 27 Every year it will be more necessary to settle it, yet every year more difficult. Prejudice will be renewed and strengthened; the envy, jealousy, and hatred of class and caste that…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 28 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 28 whole universe will hail with hallelujahs the final triumphant independence on this continent of the race whom we so long held as slaves, and afterwards as serfs on account of their…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
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Image 29 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheever, George B. (George Barrell)
- Date: 1864
About this Item
Title
- Rights of the coloured race to citizenship and representation; and the guilt and consequences of legislation against them : a discourse delivered in the Hall of Representatives of the United States, in Washington, D.C., May 29, 1864
Names
- Cheever, George B. (George Barrell), 1807-1890
- African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- New York : Francis & Loutrel, Printers ..., 1864.
Headings
- - African Americans--Civil rights
- - African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc
Genre
- Congressional addresses--Washington (D.C.)--1864
Notes
- - LC copy has ink stamp on t.p.: Received by the president May 22 1865.
- - LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 17037.
- - Source: Source unknown.
Medium
- 28 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- JK1923 .C54
- E185 .A254 container C, no. 49
- E464 .Z9 box 1, no. 31
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 92838861
Online Format
- online text
- image