 | James L. Golden, Professor Emeritus James L Golden, Alan L. Golden - 2002 - 562 Seiten
...it at once as the knell of th Union." Later in the same letter, he observed that "we have the wolf b the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely...Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."1 These two oft-quoted metaphors graphically described a polarized rhetorical situation that... | |
 | Andrew Carroll - 2008 - 518 Seiten
...member of the Massachusetts Senate: 'We have the wolf by the ears," Jefferson wrote on April 22, 1820, "and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go....in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. " Tensions mounted as violent encounters flared throughout the nation. In 1831 a slave named Nat Turner... | |
 | Elaine K. Swift - 2002 - 262 Seiten
...quiet such talk but not quell it. Observing the controversy from Monticello, Jefferson warned that "as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go."41 From the North's sectional stronghold in the House, where it held a substantial majority of... | |
 | H. Richard Uviller, William G. Merkel - 2002 - 358 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,...in one scale, and self-preservation in the other." Letter of Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes, Congressman from Massachusetts, District of Maine (Apr.... | |
 | D. Antonio Cantu - 380 Seiten
...Economy and Slavery moral dilemma that confronted the colonists, and later founders of the republic: "We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither...Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."18 There are two major foci for this particular period or theme: the colonial economic structure,... | |
 | Harold D. Tallant - 346 Seiten
...would sacrifice more than I would to relieve us from . . . [slavery] , in any practicable way. . . . But as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we...neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in the one scale, and self-preservation in the other."15 Believing slavery to be a necessity, at least... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2003 - 290 Seiten
...faced an insoluble dilemma. He expressed that dilemma in memorable terms: "We have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go....Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."6 For us, the faintest star of Jefferson's intellectual constellation was the specter of debt... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - 2003 - 376 Seiten
...from this heavy reproach, in any practicable way ... if ... a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected; and gradually, and with due sacrifices, I think it might be. But as it is[,] . . . Justice is on one scale, and self-preservation in the other. . . . jT] regret that I am now to... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 Seiten
...won. In addition, they feared for their fate at the hands of freed slaves. As Thomas Jefferson said: "we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go."4 And while they sought to place slavery in a restricted locale so that the "public mind" could... | |
 | John C. Waugh - 2003 - 236 Seiten
...men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." He said, "we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go."63 Had this great political prophet lived to see what was about to happen in Washington in 1850,... | |
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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... 
