 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1917 - 508 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... | |
 | Max Farrand - 1918 - 382 Seiten
...Compromise, 1820, while he would have been glad to see 'general emancipation, he qualified his statement: "But as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we...in one scale, and selfpreservation in the other." _ . , As already noticed, the tendency of Internal c ., , , . v • commerce Southerners was to devote... | |
 | Max Farrand - 1918 - 382 Seiten
...quajifiejd his statement: "But as it is, we have £he*woif by the ears, and we can neither hold hiiijr, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and selfpreservation in the other." _ . , As already noticed, the tendency of Internal c ,, , , . .;. . commerce Southerners was to devote... | |
 | Max Carl Otto - 1924 - 452 Seiten
...been glad to see general emancipation but for the race aspect of the problem. "As it is," he said, "we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither...in one scale, and self-preservation in the other." Even at the outbreak of the Civil War, the best judgment of the South, as represented by su.ch men... | |
 | Max Carl Otto - 1924 - 344 Seiten
...been glad to see general emancipation but for the race aspect of the problem. "As it is," he said, "we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither...in one scale, and self-preservation in the other." Even at the outbreak of the Civil War, the best judgment of the South, as represented by such men as... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1926 - 514 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,...as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we can 1 John Holmes, of Massachusetts and Maine, 1773-1843, who became a Republican in 1811. He was active... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1926 - 654 Seiten
...procrastinate, in the hope that peaceful remedies would find favour. "We have the wolf by the ears," he wrote, " and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice in the one scale, and self preservation in the other." Who can blame the veteran statesman if at the... | |
 | 1921 - 498 Seiten
...been glad to see general emancipation but for the race aspect of the problem. "As it is," he said, "we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither...in one scale, and self-preservation in the other." Even at the outbreak of the Civil War, the best judgment of the South, as represented by such men as... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - 420 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...self-preservation in the other. Of one thing I am certain, that . . . their diffusion over a greater surface would make them individually happier, and proportionally... | |
 | Peter Brooks, Paul Gewirtz - 1996 - 316 Seiten
...take sides with us in such a contest." Later, in 1797 and with feelings of "terror," he would write, "[W]e have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go."20 But while these statements are trenchant and informed by a rhetoric of revolution, they are... | |
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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... 
