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 | Jacob Hoke - Gettysburg Campaign, 1863 - 1887 - 644 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 ensla1'emenl of the African was in 1nolation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle,... | |
 | Jacob Hoke - Gettysburg Campaign, 1863 - 1887 - 644 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 enstavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - History - 1888 - 574 pages
...: " The prevailing ideas entertained by him [Thomas Jefferson] and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. . . . Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea. Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Women authors, American - 1889 - 612 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. In the mean while, during the past year, the Republican administration, with all the unwonted care... | |
 | 1890 - 802 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,...socially, morally and politically. It was an evil that they knew not well how to deal with ; but the general opinion of the men of that day was that... | |
 | Joel Moody - Kansas - 1890 - 216 pages
...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...wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 536 pages
...he said : The prevailing ideas entertained by him [Jefferson] and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution,...it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and i Address made by William L. State of Georgia. Delivered DeHarris, Commissioner of the State cember... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - United States - 1891 - 528 pages
...statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution [the Constitution of the United States] was that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it'was wrong in principle — socially, morally, and politically. . . . Our new government [the Southern... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - United States - 1891 - 482 pages
...of-Athe leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution were JEFFERSON DAVIS. that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature. . . . Those ideas, . . . rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. .... | |
 | Henry Washington Hilliard - Belgium - 1892 - 474 pages
...the old Union would split. The prevailing ideas entertained by him, and most of the old statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution,...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. Our new government is founded upon exactly opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone... | |
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