 | Electronic journals - 1921 - 498 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,... | |
 | Agriculture - 1942 - 584 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... | |
 | Gary L. McDowell, L. Sharon Noble, Sharon L. Noble - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 350 pages
...miscegenation, crime, and, ultimately, racial war. "We have the wolf by the ears," Jefferson declared in 1820, "and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."18 The only way of reconciling the two was to get rid of the problem... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 572 pages
...imperatives of slave society had found agonized expression in Jefferson's lament during the Missouri debate: "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." For most Southern leaders after Jefferson, the agony was unbearable.... | |
 | Larry Arnhart - Science - 1998 - 360 pages
...the slaves (1972, 162-63). In 1820, he could still see no escape from the moral dilemma of slavery: "[W]e 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" (1984, 1434). Throughout his life, Jefferson was interested in any... | |
 | Philip J. Schwarz - African American criminals - 1998 - 372 pages
...architect of a republic founded on natural right had so succumbed to fear of southern slaves that 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."28 Some phrases that whites used to describe slave insurrectionaries... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - History - 2009 - 522 pages
...Slavery is, then, a necessary evil, which cannot be practicably eradicated. Therein lies our dilemma. We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. If we hold on to slavery, the Negroes, I fear, will one day rise up in insurrection, and when that... | |
 | Norbert Finzsch, Dietmar Schirmer - History - 2002 - 472 pages
...in reprisals against the whites who had enslaved them. "We have a wolf by the ears," he contended, "and we can neither hold him; nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."" As a primitive people, naturally undisciplined and not fully in control... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - South Carolina - 1959 - 746 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 1999 - 676 pages
...general emancipation and expatriation could be effected; and gradually, and 1 See Supra, vm.16, note i. with due sacrifices, I think it might be. But as it...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... | |
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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... 
