| Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 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... | |
| John Kells Ingram - History - 1895 - 306 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 ; and gradually and with due care, I think it might be." English possession, the resisted — and successfully — the gf hicn the... | |
| John Kells Ingram - Serfdom - 1895 - 312 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 ; and gradually and with due care, I think it might be." English possession, the anti - slavery party resisted — and successfully... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1899 - 516 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 a condition of unparalleled distress. The sudden reduction of the circulating medium... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 500 pages
...misnamed, is a bagatelle f which would not cost me a second thought, if, in that way, a gen- x ^ .'.'^ eral emancipation and expatriation could be effected ;...nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation , ... a condition of unparalleled distress. The sudden reduction of the circulating... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 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 selfpreservation in the other. (To John Holmes, 1820. C. VII., IS9-) SOUTH AMERICA. — The Southern... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 408 pages
...quotation, Jefferson's avowal that the surrender of slave property " would not cost him a second thought if emancipation and expatriation could! be effected, and gradually and with due sacrifices, as he thought it might be." Another quotation was from a speech of Clay himself, in 1827, favoring... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1905 - 598 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... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Statesmen - 1905 - 334 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 selfpreservation in the other. Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage of slaves from one State... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1905 - 350 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... | |
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