 | Universalism - 1862 - 462 pages
...the leading 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...general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This... | |
 | American essays - 1863 - 844 pages
...the leading 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,...general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent, and pass away. This... | |
 | African Americans - 1858 - 1094 pages
...leading 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;...general opinion of the men of " that day was that, somehow or other, in the "order of Providence, the institution would be " evanescent, and pass away.... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 572 pages
...the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of tho old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature...the general opinion of the men of that day was, that somehow or other, in the order or Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Gross Barnard - Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 - 1862 - 152 pages
...leading 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...the general opinion of the men of that day was, that somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away." The... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...the leading 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...the general opinion of the men of that day was, that somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This... | |
 | George Livermore - African Americans - 1862 - 246 pages
...leading 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;...general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent, and pass away. This... | |
 | History - 1862 - 36 pages
...at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African race was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was...general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent, and pass away. *... | |
 | Garrett Davis - Confederate States of America - 1862 - 26 pages
...formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of'the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially,...the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This... | |
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The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading 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 wrong in principle, socially,... 
