 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - African Americans - 1917 - 478 pages
...Many, who would gladly be rid of slavery, found themselves in the predicament described by Jefferson, "We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go." 38 The status of the slave was determined directly by the rise of the slave-power and on the whole... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - African Americans - 1917 - 508 pages
...Many, who would gladly be rid of slavery, found themselves in the predicament described by Jefferson, "We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go."38 The status of the slave was determined directly by the rise of the slave-power and on the whole... | |
 | Max Farrand - History - 1918 - 382 pages
...Compromise, 1820, while he would have been glad to see 'general emancipation, he qualified his statement: "But as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we...nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and selfpreservation in the other." _ . , As already noticed, the tendency of Internal c ., , , . v •... | |
 | Benjamin Brawley - African Americans - 1921 - 474 pages
...property, for so it is misnamed, is a bagatelle that would not cost me a second thought, if, in that way, a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected;...gradually, and with due sacrifices, I think it might be." * For the time being, however, the South was concerned mainly about immediate dangers; nor was this... | |
 | Max Carl Otto - Ethics - 1924 - 452 pages
...been glad to see general emancipation but for the race aspect of the problem. "As it is," he said, "we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither...nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other." Even at the outbreak of the Civil War, the best judgment of the South,... | |
 | Max Carl Otto - Ethics - 1924 - 344 pages
...been glad to see general emancipation but for the race aspect of the problem. "As it is," he said, "we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither...nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other." Even at the outbreak of the Civil War, the best judgment of the South,... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1901 - 706 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... | |
 | Perry Belmont - Political parties - 1925 - 652 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, and gradually and with due sacrifice, I think it might be. But as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 1926 - 514 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;...as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we can 1 John Holmes, of Massachusetts and Maine, 1773-1843, who became a Republican in 1811. He was active... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 - 1926 - 654 pages
...procrastinate, in the hope that peaceful remedies would find favour. "We have the wolf by the ears," he wrote, " and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice in the one scale, and self preservation in the other." Who can blame the veteran statesman if at the... | |
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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... 
