 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 558 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...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 free passage of slaves from... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 526 pages
...a second thought, if, in that way, a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected ; aud gradually, and with due sacrifices, I think it might...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 free passage of slaves from... | |
 | Literature - 1861 - 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...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... | |
 | Cornelis Henri de Witt - 1862 - 496 pages
...states), it will be but another exercise of that power to declare that all shall be free.f • • • But as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go.J • • The boisterous sea of liberty, indeed, is never without a wave ; and that from Missouri... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1868 - 758 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 dnc sacrifices, I think it might be. But as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and wo can neither... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - United States - 1874 - 604 pages
...property (for so it is misnamed) is a bagatelle, which would not cost mo a second thought, if in that way a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected;...think it might be. But, as it is, we have the wolf by tho ears, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - United States - 1883 - 748 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 ons thing I am certain, that as the passage of slaves from one free... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - Presidents - 1883 - 388 pages
...that way a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected ; and gradually and with due care, I think, it might be. But as it is we have the wolf by the ears, and can neither hold him nor safely let him go." In 1821 Jefferson had a sharp revival of his old jealousy... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - Presidents - 1883 - 372 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. But as it is we have the wolf by the ears, and can neither hold him nor... | |
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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... 
