| Universalism - 1861 - 462 pages
...slavery as "an atrocious debasement of human nature." The people of Virginia, in Convention, in 1774, declared that the abolition of domestic slavery is the greatest object of desire." The people of Georgia, in Convention at Darien, in 1775, denounced " the unnatural practice of slavery... | |
| California - 1850 - 912 pages
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| William Henry Seward - United States - 1852 - 48 pages
...sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it" (Slavery).—Geo. Washington. " The abolition of domestic Slavery is the greatest object of desire in these Colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state."— Thomas Jefferson. For Mr. O'Conor's special... | |
| Israel Washburn - Compromise of 1850 - 1852 - 12 pages
...sometimes for no eon ceivnbie reason at all, his Majesty has rejected laws of the most salutary tendency. The abolition of domestic slavery is the greatest object of desire in those colonies where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. But previous to the enfranchisement... | |
| Compromise of 1850 - 1854 - 144 pages
...rights of British America, laid before tho Virginia convention, in August, П74. These are his words: " The abolition of domestic slavery is the greatest object of desire in these colonie*, wheru it was unhappily introduced iu their infant otate." In the spirit which animated Jeflerson.... | |
| Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 722 pages
...the Virginia Convention of 1774, ho openly avowed, while vindicating the rights of British America, that " the abolition of domestic Slavery is the greatest object of desire in these Colonies, where it was unha/>/>i/i/ introduced in their infant state." And then again, in the Declaration of... | |
| Frederick Law Olmsted - Enslaved persons - 1856 - 756 pages
...industry, and a dead weight upon enterprise. In the Convention of 1774, it was unanimously resolved, that: " The abolition of domestic slavery is the greatest object of desire in those colonies where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. But, previous to the enfranchisement... | |
| Frederick Law Olmsted - History - 1856 - 758 pages
...industry, and a dead weight upon enterprise. In the Convention of 1774, it was unanimously resolved, that: " The abolition of domestic slavery is the greatest object of desire m those colonies where it was unhappily introduced in their infant date. But, previous to the enfranchisement... | |
| 1857 - 700 pages
...province favored freedom as such."f In his address to the Virginia Convention of 1774, Jefferson Baid, "that the abolition of domestic slavery is the greatest object of desire in these colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state." They were embarrassed alone as to what to... | |
| 1857 - 716 pages
...province favored freedom as such."f In his address to the Virginia Convention of 1774, Jefferson said, "that the abolition of domestic slavery is the greatest object of desire in these colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state." They were embarrassed alone as to what to... | |
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