| American essays - 1863 - 844 pages
...against the Constitutional guaranties thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation ; and the idea of a government built upon it —... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 572 pages
...however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was »n error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a government built upon it; when the ' storm came ».!'! the wind blew, It fell.' " Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea ; its... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 560 pages
...against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a government built upon it ; when... | |
| History - 1862 - 36 pages
...Those ideas, however, were fundamenttdly wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation,...government built upon it, when the storm came, and wind blew, it fell. Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; its foundations... | |
| Garrett Davis - Confederate States of America - 1862 - 26 pages
...against the constitutional guaranties thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was au error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a government built upon it; when... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 554 pages
...aeainst the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation,'and the idea of a government bnilt upon it ; when... | |
| George Livermore - African Americans - 1862 - 246 pages
...against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation ; and the idea of a government built upon it, —... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a government built upon it ; when... | |
| Charles Edward Rawlins - Secession - 1862 - 252 pages
...against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a government built upon it —... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1863 - 878 pages
...violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, tocially, morally, and politically. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested...equality of the races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundationf and the idea of a government upon it ; — ' when the storm came and the wind blew it fell.'... | |
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