 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 Seiten
...In 1820, he wrote about this dilemma in memorable terms to the Massachusetts politician John Holmes: "We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither...in one scale, and self-preservation in the other." Finally, Jefferson was haunted by the specter of debt, which overshadowed his lands and his life. To... | |
 | Thomas Fleming - 2004 - 280 Seiten
...freeing all his slaves if "a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected." But, he insisted, "we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go."4 As a liberal proponent of natural rights who owned slaves, Jefferson exposed himself, even in... | |
 | Noah M. Jedidiah Pickus - 2005 - 280 Seiten
...than I would to relieve us of this heavy reproach, in any practicable way," Jefferson wrote in 1820. "But as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we...Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."20 EMANCIPATION WITHOUT CITIZENSHIP A minority of citizens disagreed with Jefferson and Tucker... | |
 | Brian Weiner - 2009 - 258 Seiten
...slaves).43 Jefferson portrayed himself, as he did others in his position of slave master, as paralyzed: "We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither...Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."44 Reports of slave uprisings inspired Jefferson to make dire predictions. In a 1797 letter... | |
 | John Channing Briggs - 2005 - 396 Seiten
...which would not cost me a second thought, if in that way, a general emancipation, and expatriation could be effected; and, gradually, and with due sacrifices...think it might be. But as it is, we have the wolf by die ears and we can neidier hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation... | |
 | Sean Wilentz - 2006 - 1114 Seiten
...lengths to end slavery "in any practicable way." As things stood, he wrote, "we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go....in one scale, and self-preservation in the other." If he became maddeningly circumspect about slavery, with the fear of black insurrection always in the... | |
 | Gregory Shafer - 2005 - 125 Seiten
...referring to slavery, Jefferson framed the issue in animal metaphors. "We have the wolf by the ear and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in scale, and self preservation in the other" (Finkelman 177). Clearly, in his conception of Black people,... | |
 | Sanford Levinson, Bartholomew H. Sparrow - 2005 - 288 Seiten
...more than race control. These New South capitalists did not even recognize Jefferson's famous cry: "We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him or let him go." The proslavery warriors would not let go of their profits, their pride, their honor,... | |
 | William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - 2007 - 216 Seiten
...thought, if, in that way, a general emancipation, and expatriation could be effected; and, gradually, with due sacrifices I think it might be. But as it...in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. Clay was "on principle and in feeling, opposed to slavery," and yet he owned slaves, Lincoln averred.... | |
 | David Brion Davis - 2006 - 464 Seiten
...fire-bell in the night, [which] awakened and filled me with terror," and then moved on to say that "we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither...in one scale, and selfpreservation in the other." His letters of this time are dramatically inconsistent, ranging from despair over the supposed betrayal... | |
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The cession of that kind of property (for so it is misnamed) is a bagatelle, which would not cost me a second thought, if, in that way, a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected: and gradually, and with due sacrifices, I think it might... 
