 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 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...Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the Constitution, was the prevailing idea at the time.... | |
 | 1864 - 794 pages
...stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading •talesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution...Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass »way. This idea, though not incorporated in the Constitution, was the prevailing idea at the time.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1864 - 814 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...Providence, the institution would be evanescent and ря*з away. This idea, though not incorporated in the Constitution, was the prevailing idea at the... | |
 | Fitzwilliam Sargent - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 204 pages
...Stephens said : " The prevailing ideas entertained by Jefterson and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution...morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not how to deal with ; but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other, in the... | |
 | Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 592 pages
...stands, may bo doubted. Tho prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution...morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not how to deal with ; but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the... | |
 | Robert Livingston Stanton - History - 1864 - 576 pages
...stands, may be doubted. Th0 prevailing ideas entertained by Mm and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution...morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, hi the... | |
 | American Unitarian Association - Unitarian churches - 1864 - 584 pages
...admitted that " the prevailing ideas entertained by him [Jefferson] and most of the leading statesmen, at the formation of the old Constitution, were, that...principle, socially, morally, and politically." It was after slavery became too profitable for men to feel that they could afford to admit it to be wrong,... | |
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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,... 
