 | George Washington - United States - 1835 - 568 pages
...evils than it can cure. * In writing to Mr. John P. Mercer on this subject, Genera] Washington said; " I never mean, unless some particular circumstances...slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — September 9th, 1786. I will make no apology for writing to you on this subject, for, if Mr. Dalby... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 572 pages
...evils than it can cure. * In writing to Mr. John F. Mercer on this subject, General Washington said ; " I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave hy purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country... | |
 | William Dunlap - Literary Criticism - 1836 - 232 pages
...further." — Shakspeare. ''• I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel ms to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being...slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — Washington. "Just Death ! kind umpire of man's miseries." " Our little life is rounded with a sleep."... | |
 | William Dunlap - Literary Criticism - 1836 - 256 pages
...domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can toueh them further." — Shakspearc. '• I never mean, unljss some particular circumstances should compel me to...slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes la see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — Washington.... | |
 | African Americans - 1836 - 406 pages
...September 9th, 1786. "I never mean, unless some particular circumstance should compel me to it, t» possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some pla» adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." STATE OF AFRICA. The Boston... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 580 pages
...evils than it can cure. * In writing to Mr. John F. Mercer on this subject, General Washington said ; " I never mean, unless some particular circumstances...slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — September 9th, 1786. I will make no apology for writing to you on this subject, for, if Mr. Dalby... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 716 pages
...scarcely obtain a hearing. — Letter to Lafayette. I never mean, unless some particular circumstance should compel me to it, to possess another slave by...which slavery in this country may be abolished by law. — Letter to John F. Mercer. Because there are, in Pennsylvania, laws for the gradual abolition of... | |
 | Frederick Freeman - African Americans - 1837 - 364 pages
...a letter to John F. Mercer, September 9, 1786, " I never mean, unless some particular circumstance should compel me to it, to possess another slave by...slavery in this country may be abolished by law." ' Mr. JEFFERSON asks, " Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we have removed their... | |
 | William Dunlap - American fiction - 1837 - 440 pages
...steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can toueh them further." — Xhakspeare. "I never mean, unless some particular circumstances...wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery iu this country may be abolished by law." — Washington. "Just Death ! kind umpire of man's miseries."... | |
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I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law. 
