 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...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...nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage of slaves from one State... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 550 pages
...property, for so it ia misnamed, is a bagatelle which would not cost me a second thought, if, in that way, a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected:...nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage of slaves from one State... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 552 pages
...which would not cost me a second thought, if, in that way, a general emancipation and expatrtation could be effected: and, gradually, and with due sacrifices,...nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage of slaves from one State... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 594 pages
...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...gradually, and with due sacrifices, I think it might be. Bui as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...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'...nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage of slaves from one State... | |
 | African Americans - 1834 - 300 pages
...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...gradually and with due sacrifices, I think it might be." — [Jefferson; Works, Vol. 4, p. 324. In his memoir of his own life, begun in 1821, Mr. Jefferson,... | |
 | African Americans - 1834 - 450 pages
...bagatelle which would not ' cost me a second thought if in that way a general emancipation and expalnation could ' be effected: and gradually and with due sacrifices, I think it might be." — -[Jefferson's Works, Vol. 4, p. 324. In his memoir of his own life, begun in 1821, Mr. Jefferson,... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 608 pages
...and gradually, with due sacrifices, I think it might be. But as it is, we have the wolf by the cars, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go....in one scale, and self preservation in the other.'' He urges that diffusion would not have the effect of increasing the number, but would make them individually... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 542 pages
...second thought, if in that way a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected: and gradually, with due sacrifices, I think it might be. But as it is, 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... | |
 | 1848 - 738 pages
...(for so it is misnamed ! !) is a bagatelle which would not cost me a second thought, if, in this way, a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected...be. But as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and can neither hold him nor let him go. Justice is in the one scale, and self-preservation in the other."... | |
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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... 
