 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...were, thai the enslatement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was vrtmff in principle, socially, morally, and politically....Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the Constitution, was the prevailing idea at the time.... | |
 | Slavery - 1969 - 662 pages
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 | Slavery - 1969 - 632 pages
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 | Henry Watson Wilbur - Biography & Autobiography - 1914 - 232 pages
...admitted that "the prevailing ideas entertained" by Thomas Jefferson 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 "The game, p. 337. laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically."... | |
 | Social sciences - 2003 - 308 pages
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 | Clint Bolick - Social Science - 1988 - 174 pages
...principles of civil rights: The prevailing ideas entertained by ... most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution,...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. ... Those ideas were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of the races,... | |
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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,... 
