 | 1850 - 744 Seiten
...the emphatic prophecy, " that emancipation must be adopted, or worse would follow. That nothing was more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people (the negroes) were to be free.'1'1 The manner of this expression is less that of a philosopher than... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1853 - 660 Seiten
...the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more...free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power to... | |
 | 1853 - 380 Seiten
...struggle. Whatever is morally wrong cannot be politically right." Referring to the slaves, he says : — " Nothing is more certainly written in the Book of Fate than that these people are to be free." President Jefferson also said, " One hour of American slavery is fraught with more misery than ages... | |
 | 1855 - 560 Seiten
...our case." Nothing, says Jefferson in the extract which we have just made, is more certainly icritten in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. We neither can nor do we agree with this enunciation of opinion. Without recurring to that curse which... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 408 Seiten
...day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainty written in the book of fate than that these people...free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit and opinion, have drawn indelible lines of distinetion between them. It is still in our power... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 432 Seiten
...have involved Heaven itself in darkness, doubtless a God of justice will awaken to their distress. Nothing is more certainly written in the Book of Fate, than that this people shall be free." In a letter to James Heaton, on this same subject, dated May 20, 1826,... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 432 Seiten
...have involved Heaven itself in darkness, doubtless a God of justice will awaken to their distress. Nothing is more certainly written in the Book of Fate, than that this people shall be free." In a letter to James Heaton, on this same subject, dated May 20, 1826,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 710 Seiten
...the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more...free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power to... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 726 Seiten
...the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this d.iy. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more...in the book of fate, than that these people are to If free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the umt government.... | |
 | Josiah Quincy - 1858 - 452 Seiten
...and adopt the general emancipation of their slaves. ' Nothing is more certainly written,' said he, ' in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free.' My countrymen! it is written in a better volume than the book of fate; it is written in the laws of... | |
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Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. 
