| 1861 - 462 Seiten
...Facts for the People," 1853. Jefferson and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were that the enslavement...wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with ; but the general opinion of the men of the day... | |
| 1862
...enslavement of the African race was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically, adds, " Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas. Its foundations are laid. The cornerstone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man ; that slavery,... | |
| 1863 - 844 Seiten
...prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with ; but the general opinion of the men of that day... | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 Seiten
...revolution. The prevailing ideas entertained by Jefferson and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was wrong in principle socially, morally, and politically. Our new government is founded upon exactly the... | |
| 1858 - 1094 Seiten
..." The prevailing ideas entertained by "most of the leading statesmen at the time of " the formation of the old Constitution were, that " the enslavement...in "principle, socially, morally, and politically. It "was an evil they knew not well how to deal " with, but the general opinion of the men of " that... | |
| Orville James Victor - 1861 - 560 Seiten
...prevailing ideal entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were that the enslavement...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day... | |
| Orville James Victor - 1861 - 572 Seiten
...prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of tho old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day... | |
| Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1861 - 552 Seiten
...ideas enter" tainod by Mr. Jefferson and most of " the leading statesmen at the time of " the formation of the old constitution "were, that the enslavement of the ' African was in violation of the law of ' nature — that it was wrong in principle, ' socially, morally, and politically. . . . ' Those... | |
| 1861 - 576 Seiten
...formation of the old constitution "were, that the enslavement of the ' African was in violation of the law of ' nature — that it was wrong in principle, ' socially, morally, and politically. . . . ' Those ideas, however, were fundamen' tally wrong. They rested on the ' assumption of the equality... | |
| Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1861 - 790 Seiten
...fathers of the Republic on the subject of freedom and equality are wrong. " Our new government," he says, "is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas, its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man, that slavery,... | |
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