 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 560 pages
...very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I surely will not blame them for not doing what I...not know what to do as to the existing institution. * * * It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted ; but for their tardiness... | |
 | Social sciences - 1861 - 774 pages
...can understand and appreciate the saying. I surely will not blame them for not doing what I shonld not know how to do myself. If all earthly power were given me I shonld not know what to do as to the existing institution. My first impulse wonld be to free all the... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 554 pages
...rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I surely will notblame them for not doing what I should not know how to do...not know what to do as to the existing institution. * * It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted ; but for their tardiness... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I surely will not blame them for not doing what I...not know what to do, as to the existing institution. When the white man governs himself, that is, self-government ; but when he governs himself, and also... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 pages
...very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I surely will not blame them for not doing what I...not know what to do, as to the existing institution. When the white man governs himself, that is, self-government ; but when he governs himself, and also... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 604 pages
...very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I surely will not blame them for not doing what I...institution. My first impulse would be to free all the existing slaves, and send them to Liberia, — to their own native land ; but a moment's reflection... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1889 - 370 pages
...to the absolutely "safe" democratio states. The democrats, indeed, still had the majority in ria: " If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution." His first idea would be to send all slaves to Liberia. Closer reflection showed, however, that, if... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 pages
...way, I can understand and appreciate the same. I surely will not blame them for not doing what I would not know how to do myself. If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do with the existing institution. My first impulse would be, to free all the existing slaves, and send... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - United States - 1892 - 398 pages
...to the absolutely "safe" democratic states. The democrats, indeed, still had the majority in ria : " If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution." His first idea would be to send all slaves to Liberia. Closer reflection ohowed, however, that, if... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - Presidents - 1893 - 410 pages
...themselves for not expelling the evil on the ground that they did not know how to do so. At Peoria he said: "If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution." He contributed some suggestions which certainly were nothing better than chimerical. Deportation to... | |
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I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution. 
