 I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.  The Works of Charles Sumner - Page 323by Charles Sumner - 1875Full view - About this book
 | George Washington - United States - 1835 - 568 pages
...particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — September 9th, 1786. I will make no apology for writing to you on this subject, for, if Mr. Dalby... | |
 | William Dunlap - Literary Criticism - 1836 - 232 pages
...particular circumstances should compel ms to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — Washington. "Just Death ! kind umpire of man's miseries." " Our little life is rounded with a sleep."... | |
 | William Dunlap - Literary Criticism - 1836 - 256 pages
...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes la see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — Washington. "Just Death ! kind umpire of man's miseries." " Our little life is rounded with a sleep."... | |
 | African Americans - 1836 - 406 pages
...compel me to it, t» possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some pla» adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." STATE OF AFRICA. The Boston Recorder for lust New Year's day contains a Icng and interesting editorial... | |
 | Frederick Freeman - African Americans - 1837 - 364 pages
...particular circumstance should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." ' Mr. JEFFERSON asks, " Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we have removed their... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 580 pages
...particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — September 9th, 1786. I will make no apology for writing to you on this subject, for, if Mr. Dalby... | |
 | William Dunlap - American fiction - 1837 - 512 pages
...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes Ip see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — WaMngton. "Just Death ! kind umpire of man's miseries." " Our little life is roumded with a slesp."... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Weld - Enslaved persons - 1838 - 66 pages
...legislative authority." In a letter to John Fenton Mercer, dated Sept. 9, 1786, he says : " It is among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." In a letter to Sir John Sinclair, he says : " There are in Pennsylvania, laws for the gradual abolition... | |
 | African Americans - 1838 - 400 pages
...particular circumstance should compel we to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law."f The following extract is from a letter to the Marquis de Lafayett«, dated 10f May, 17S6: The... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 454 pages
...particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished bylaw. - "—Letter to John F. Mercer. These were the sentiments of the father of his-country on this... | |
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