 | Universalism - 1862 - 462 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,...institution would be evanescent and pass away. This .... was the prevailing idea of the time." The pretence of Southern leaders, that the founders of this... | |
 | Universalism - 1861 - 462 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,...deal with ; but the general opinion of the men of the day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 560 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,...other, in the order of Providence, the institution wonld be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not ineorporaJed in the Constitution, was the... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 572 pages
...formation of tho old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature : that it was wrong in principle, socially,...that day was, that somehow or other, in the order or Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated... | |
 | 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
...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,...the institution would be evanescent and pass away." The collision between North and South arises not from Northern aggression, but from the entirely new... | |
 | History - 1862 - 36 pages
...formation of the old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African race was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially,...the institution would be evanescent, and pass away. * * * * Those ideas, however, were fundamenttdly wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...of the Constitution, was that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with;...the institution would be evanescent, and pass away. Much has been said and written, by the extremists of the abolition party, which has served to inflame... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 554 pages
...formation of the old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the lawn of nature : that it was wrong in principle, socially,...well how to deal with, but the general opinion of tin- men of that day was, that somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would... | |
 | Charles Edward Rawlins - Secession - 1862 - 252 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, morally, and politically. It was an evil they did not know well how to deal with ; but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that somehow... | |
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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,... 
