| English periodicals - 1861 - 576 pages
...formation of the old constitution "were, that the enslavement of the ' African was in violation of the law of ' nature — that it was wrong in principle, ' socially, morally, and politically. . . . ' Those ideas, however, were fundamen' tally wrong. They rested on the ' assumption of the equality... | |
| Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - Presbyterianism - 1862 - 774 pages
...prevailing ideas entertained by Jefferson and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the foundation of the old Constitution, were that the enslavement...in principle, socially, morally, and politically". " Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas. Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone... | |
| John Elliott Cairnes - Slavery - 1862 - 172 pages
...time of the formation of the old Constitution," says the Vice-President of the Southern Confederacy, " were that the enslavement of the African race was...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. Our new government is founded on exactly opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone... | |
| Congregationalism - 1862 - 692 pages
...statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite... | |
| William Taylor - United States - 1862 - 40 pages
...entertained at the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African race was a violation of the laws of nature — that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. Our new Government is founded on exactly opposite ideas. Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone... | |
| Agénor comte de Gasparin - Great Britain - 1862 - 452 pages
...He was right. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen of his time were, that the enslavement of the African race was in violation of the laws of nature. . . .Those ideas, however, were fundamentally false. They rested upon the assumption, of the equality... | |
| Agénor comte de Gasparin - Great Britain - 1862 - 442 pages
...He was right. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen of his time were, that the enslavement of the African race was in violation of the laws of nature. . . .Those ideas, however, were fundamentally false. They rested upon the assumption of the equality... | |
| John Elliott Cairnes - United States - 1862 - 20 pages
...the formation of the new Constitution were that the enslavement of the African race was foreign to the laws of nature, — that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, aud politically. Our new Government is founded on exactly opposite ideas. Its foundations arc laid,... | |
| Bible Christians - 1863 - 1030 pages
...contending parties. THK POLIO? OP ТПЕ SOPTH. " The ideas entertained at the forma* tion of tlio old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. Our new Government is Joundtd on exactly opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone... | |
| Robert Dale Owen - Slavery - 1863 - 22 pages
...statesmen, at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was...in principle, socially, morally, and politically." The " ultimate extinction" heresy, too, was shared by these men, as Mr. Stephens thus reminds us: "Slavery... | |
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