 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1820 - 486 pages
...heaven was silent in that awful moment ! But it is to be hoped it will not always be silent, and that the friends to .the rights of human nature, will, in the end, prevail. On the 16th of March, 1785, it was moved in Congress, that the same proposition should be referred... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...heaven was silent in that awful moment ! But it is to be hoped it will not always be silent, and that the friends to the rights of human nature, will, in the end, prevail. On the IGth of March, 1785, it was moved in Congress, that the same proposition should be referred... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pages
...heaven was silent in that awful moment! But it is to be hoped it will not always be silent, and that the friends to the rights of human nature, will, in the end, prevail. On the 16th of March, 1785, it was moved in Congress, that the same proposition should be referred... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Constitutional history - 1829 - 486 pages
...heaven was silent in that awful moment ! But it is to be hoped it will not always be silent, and that the friends to the rights of human nature, will, in the end, prevail. On the 16th of March, 1785, it was moved in Congress, that the same proposition should be referred... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 608 pages
...heaven was silent in that awful moment ! But it is to be hoped it will not always be silent, and that the friends to the rights of human nature will in the end prevail. " On the 16th of March, 1785, it was moved in Congress that the same proposition should be referred... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 610 pages
...hope that an overruling Providence is preparing the deliverance of these our suffering brethren." f In 1786, narrating the loss of the clause against...delighted to renew these aspirations of his earlier years. 4 * In a letter written just forty-five days before his death he refers to the ordinance of 1784, saying:... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1885 - 684 pages
...any of them." This was defeated by a single vote in Congress, much to Jefferson's disgust. In 1786 he said : " The voice of a single individual would have prevented this abominable crime [the introduction of slavery into new territory]. Heaven will not always be silent ; the friends to... | |
 | History - 1886 - 662 pages
...Jefferson seems to have been fully conscious of the defeat of his anti-slavery clause. Two years afterward he said : " The voice of a single individual would have prevented this abominable crime from spreading itself over the new country. . . . Heaven will not always be silent ; and the friends... | |
 | Jacob Piatt Dunn - History - 1888 - 484 pages
...exclamation points at Virginia's failure to support this plan of gradual emancipation. Two years later he said : " The voice of a single individual would have prevented this abominable crime from spreading itself over the new country. Thus we see the fate of millions unborn hanging on the... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - Education - 1890 - 414 pages
...heaven was silent in that awful moment ! But it is to be hoped it will not always be silent, and that the friends to the rights of human nature will in the end prevail." * Jefferson as he proceeded drew attention to the fact that Congress had again taken the matter up.... | |
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... would have prevented this abominable crime from spreading itself over the new country. Thus we see the fate of millions unborn hanging on the tongue of one man, and heaven was silent in that awful moment ! But it is to be hoped it will not always... 
