An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes as Slaves, as Citizens, and as Soldiers |
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... idea , though not incorporated in the Constitution , was the pre- vailing idea at the time . The Constitution , it is true , secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last ; and hence no argument can be justly ...
... idea , though not incorporated in the Constitution , was the pre- vailing idea at the time . The Constitution , it is true , secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last ; and hence no argument can be justly ...
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... idea that there could be property in man . " I prefer the lights of Madison , Hamilton , and Jay , as a means of construing the Constitution in all its bearings , McLean . McLean . Judge rather than to look behind that period 2 SLAVERY ...
... idea that there could be property in man . " I prefer the lights of Madison , Hamilton , and Jay , as a means of construing the Constitution in all its bearings , McLean . McLean . Judge rather than to look behind that period 2 SLAVERY ...
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... idea of the character of the arguments so effectively used at that period , when the authors of the Declaration of Independence and the founders of the Republic were still struggling to establish our Government on the firm basis of ...
... idea of the character of the arguments so effectively used at that period , when the authors of the Declaration of Independence and the founders of the Republic were still struggling to establish our Government on the firm basis of ...
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... ideas as I have of present and future things , you will obey the former . " The worst that can happen to you for disobeying the former is the destruction of the body ; for the last , that of your souls . " — Proceedings of the Mass ...
... ideas as I have of present and future things , you will obey the former . " The worst that can happen to you for disobeying the former is the destruction of the body ; for the last , that of your souls . " — Proceedings of the Mass ...
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... idea of a further petition to the king . He was opposed to such a step , believing enough had been done in this way already ; but he yielded the point in tenderness to the more wavering resolution of his associates . " These resolves ...
... idea of a further petition to the king . He was opposed to such a step , believing enough had been done in this way already ; but he yielded the point in tenderness to the more wavering resolution of his associates . " These resolves ...
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Page 17 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 18 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Page 3 - The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year 1808, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
Page 16 - I advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.
Page 2 - ... so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; M Howard and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced p.
Page 7 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...
Page xvi - 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, morally, and politically.
Page xvi - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 53 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Page 49 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.