 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,...  The Song of Kansas and Other Poems - Page 158by Joel Moody - 1890 - 189 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American essays - 1863 - 844 pages
...whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of...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,... | |
 | African Americans - 1858 - 1094 pages
...immediate cause "of the late rupture and present revolution. " The prevailing ideas entertained by "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;... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 572 pages
...whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of...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... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 560 pages
...comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideal 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... | |
 | English periodicals - 1861 - 576 pages
...of the Constitution of the Confederate States, " The prevailing ideas enter" tained by Mr. Jefferson 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 law of '... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of...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... | |
 | Charles Edward Rawlins - Secession - 1862 - 252 pages
...whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him, and most...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... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 554 pages
...whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of...leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the lawn of nature... | |
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