 I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.  The Philosophy of Human Nature - 314 ページFrancis E. Brewster 著 - 1851 - 447 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | 1856 - 88 ページ
...circumstance should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which Slavery in this country may be abolished by law." Said Jefferson in his Notes on Virginia : " The whole commerce between master and slave is a continual... | |
 | 1856 - 80 ページ
...circumstance should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which Slavery in this country may be abolished by law." Surely such language, in the eyes of a ProSlavery jury, would be considered as " calculated " to render... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1856 - 46 ページ
...the same great question. In 1786, George Washington wrote to John F. Mercer: "It is among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law;" and by his will he emancipated his own negroes. Thomas Jefferson says, in his Notes on Virginia, "The... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1856 - 348 ページ
...Washington speak for them. 'It is among my first wishes,' he said, in a letter to John Fenton Mercer, ' to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.'1 And in his will, penned with his own hand, in the last year of his life, he bore his testimony... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 432 ページ
...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery,...country, may be abolished by law." In a letter to Robert Morris, dated Mount Vernon, April 12, 1786, he says :— " I can only say that there is not... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 594 ページ
...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase ; it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." In another letter he says : " I hope it will not be conceived from these observations," (with respect... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 440 ページ
...should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among myjirsl wishes to sec some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law." In a letter to Robert Morr.-s, dated Mount Vernon, April 12, 1786, he says :— " I can only say that there is not... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 ページ
...illustrious Virginians, who, in the language of the great chief himself, declared it among their "first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law." The words embraced within this quotation were used by Washington, in a letter to John F. Mercer, dated... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 432 ページ
...illustrious Virginians, who, in the language of the great chief himself, declared it among their "first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law." The words embraced within this quotation were used by Washington, in a letter to John F. Mercer, dated... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 434 ページ
...Virginians, who, in the language of the great chief himself, declared it among their "first uishns to sec some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law." The words embraced within this quotation were used by Washington, in a letter to John F. Mercer, dated... | |
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