 | George Washington - 1835 - 568 ページ
...any fresh proofs of it; but your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble...of this country. But I despair of seeing it. Some peti* In a remarkable and very interesting letter, written by Lafayette in the prison of Magdeburg,... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1835 - 580 ページ
...any fresh proofs of it ; but your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble...of this country. But I despair of seeing it. Some peti* In a remarkable and very interesting letter, written by Lafayette in the prison of Magdeburg,... | |
 | Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier marquis de Lafayette - 1837 - 502 ページ
...any fresh proof of it ; but your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble...proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit would diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country ; but I despair of seeing... | |
 | Frederick Freeman - 1837 - 364 ページ
...any fresh proofs of it ; but your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God Southern views. a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country.... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1839 - 576 ページ
...any fresh proofs of it ; but your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble...of this country. But I despair of seeing it. Some peti* In a remarkable and very interesting letter, written by Lafayette in the prison of Magdeburg,... | |
 | 1843 - 404 ページ
...but your late purehase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a vicw of emaneipating the slaves, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God, a like spirit might diffuse itself ger'erally into the minds of the pcople of this country ! But I despair of seeing it. Some petitions... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - 1844 - 492 ページ
...any fresh proofs of it ; but your late purchase of an estate in the Colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble...into the minds of the people of this country ! But 1 despair of seeing it. Some petitions were presented to the Assembly at its last session for the abolition... | |
 | William Cutter - 1849 - 476 ページ
...unequivocal and emphatic language : " Your late purchase in Cayenne, with a view of emancipating your slaves, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would...it. Some petitions were presented to the assembly (of Virginia) at its last session, for the abolition of slavery, but they could scarcely obtain a hearing.... | |
 | William Jay - 1853 - 684 ページ
...Heaven. WAHINGTON : — " Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble...itself generally into the minds of the people of this country." Letter to Lafayette, 10th May, 1 786. JEFFERSON: — " Can the liberties of a nation be thought... | |
 | George Washington - 1855 - 574 ページ
...any fresh proofs of it ; but your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble...of this country. But I despair of seeing it. Some peti* In a remarkable and very interesting letter, written by Lafayette in the prison of Magdeburg,... | |
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The benevolence of your heart, my dear Marquis, is so conspicuous upon all occasions, that I never wonder at any fresh proofs of it ; but your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous... 
