 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 Atlantic Monthly - Page 1101863Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Mackenzie - Canada - 1882 - 418 pages
...by him and most of the leading statesmen at thu time of the formation of the old constitution wore that the enslavement of the African was in violation...wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. . . . Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...stands, may be doubted. The prevailing id win entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution,...enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nuturo : that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It woe an evil they knew... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie - Canada - 1882 - 404 pages
...and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution were that th« enslavement of the African was in violation of the...wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. . . . Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African Americans - 1882 - 1152 pages
...stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of tke leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were, that the enslai>ement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle,... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...stands, may be doubted. The prevailing idea 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 race was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - United States - 1884 - 828 pages
...entertained by him (Jefferson) and most of the leading statesmen of the time were that slavery was a violation of the laws of nature, that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically, and that somehow or other it would prove evanescent and pass away. . . . Those ideas were fundamentally... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - Civil rights - 1887 - 900 pages
...stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him, and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution,...in principle, socially, morally, and politically." I thank him for that testimony. " It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with ; but the general... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - Slavery - 1887 - 906 pages
...him, and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, wsre, that the enslavement of the African -was in violation...in principle, socially, morally, and politically." I thank him for that testimony. " It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with ; but the general... | |
 | Harry A. Lewis - Success - 1887 - 534 pages
...old Union would split. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution,...that the enslavement of the African was in violation to the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle socially, morally and politically. Our new government... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - Civil rights - 1887 - 884 pages
...stands, may be doubted, 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 violat1on of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically."... | |
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