 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1905 - 604 pages
...property, for so it is misnamed, is a bagatelle which would not cost me a second thought, if, in that way, a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected;...have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold hi*ri, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. Of one thing... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 pages
...(slaves), for so it is misnamed, is a bagatelle, which would not cost me a second thought, if in that way a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected...nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. ... I regret that I am now to die in the belief that the useless sacrifice... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 328 pages
...— for it is so misnamed — is a bagatelle which would not cost me a second thought if in that way a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected,...nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. Mr. Clay was in Congress, and, perceiving the danger, at once engaged... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 384 pages
...— for it is so misnamed — is a bagatelle which would not cost me a second thought if in that way a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected,...nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. Mr. Clay was in Congress, and, perceiving the danger, at once engaged... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1907 - 738 pages
...— for it is so misnamed — is a bagatelle which would not cost me a second thought if in that way a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected,...nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. Mr. Clay was in Congress, and, perceiving the danger, at once engaged... | |
 | Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 428 pages
...which, as Lincoln reminded his hearers, had called forth a pregnant saying from old Thomas Jefferson : " we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go." The most significant part of his oration dealt specifically with Clay's own attitude towards the problem... | |
 | Beverley Bland Munford - History - 1909 - 382 pages
...for so it is misnamed — is a bagatelle which would not cost me a second thought if, in that way, a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected ; and gradually, and with due sacrifice, I think it might be ; but as it is, we have the wolf by the ears and can neither hold him... | |
 | Emma Langdon Roche - Slave-trade - 1914 - 198 pages
...property (for so it is misnamed) is a bagatelle, which would not cost me a second thought, if in that way a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected;...nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale and self-preservation in the other. Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage of slaves from one Free... | |
 | James Zachariah George, William Hayne Leavell - African Americans - 1915 - 386 pages
...property, for so it is misnamed, is a bagatelle which would not cost me a second thought, if, in that way, a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected;...nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale and self-preservation in the other. Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage of slaves from one State... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - African Americans - 1917 - 504 pages
...property, for so it is misnamed, is a bagatelle which would not cost me a second thought, if, in that way, a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected...neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in the one scale and self-preservation in the other.»2 Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage... | |
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The cession of that kind of property, for so it is misnamed, is a bagatelle which would not cost me a second thought, if, in that way, a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected ; and, gradually, and with due sacrifices, I think it might... 
