 | Abraham Lincoln - 1905 - 350 Seiten
...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...in one scale, and self-preservation in the other." Mr. Clay was in Congress, and, perceiving the danger, at once engaged his whole energies to avert it.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 604 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,...have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold hi*ri, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. Of one thing... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 738 Seiten
...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...in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. Mr. Clay was in Congress, and, perceiving the danger, at once engaged his whole energies to avert it.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 Seiten
...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...in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. ... I regret that I am now to die in the belief that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 328 Seiten
...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...in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. Mr. Clay was in Congress, and, perceiving the danger, at once engaged his whole energies to avert it.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 384 Seiten
...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...in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. Mr. Clay was in Congress, and, perceiving the danger, at once engaged his whole energies to avert it.... | |
 | Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 428 Seiten
...which, as Lincoln reminded his hearers, had called forth a pregnant saying from old Thomas Jefferson : " we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go." The most significant part of his oration dealt specifically with Clay's own attitude towards the problem... | |
 | Beverley Bland Munford - 1909 - 382 Seiten
...a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected ; and gradually, and with due sacrifice, I think it might be ; but as it is, we have the wolf by the ears and can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."'... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1917 - 504 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,...neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in the one scale and self-preservation in the other.»2 Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1917 - 478 Seiten
...Many, who would gladly be rid of slavery, found themselves in the predicament described by Jefferson, "We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go." 38 The status of the slave was determined directly by the rise of the slave-power and on the whole... | |
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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... 
