 | Thomas Branagan, Julius Rubens Ames - Charity - 1839 - 404 pages
...climate, no man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him. This is so true, that of the proprietors of slaves, a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labour. " And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we have removed their only basis,... | |
 | Alexander Trotter - Business & Economics - 1839 - 478 pages
...climate, no man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him. This is so true that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labour." " And can the liberties of a nation," he adds, " be thought secure when we have removed their... | |
 | George Combe - Phrenology - 1841 - 420 pages
...man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances." * * * "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure...removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people, that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but... | |
 | Slavery - 1843 - 404 pages
...climate no man will labor for himself who can makeanother labor for him. This is so true, that of the proprietors of slaves, a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. And can theliberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their. only firm basis, a conviction... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy - Slavery - 1843 - 600 pages
...true, that of the proprietors of slaves, a very smalt proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. And cnn the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed thiis only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of Sie people that thrstliberties are of the gift... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - Constitutional law - 1844 - 336 pages
...climate no man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him. This is so true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed...removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but... | |
 | Cassius Marcellus Clay - History - 1848 - 550 pages
...[half-past nine o'clock] adjourned. SLAVERY: THE EVIL-THE REMEDY. To THE EDITOR OF THE TRIBUNE : i " AND can the liberties of a nation be thought secure,...removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God ? • • • Indeed, I tremble for my... | |
 | Henry G. Wheeler - United States - 1848 - 692 pages
...impoverishes the people of the whole ?oua' Mr. Jefferson, speaking in the most emphatic language, says: " ' And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have rent* ri their only firm hasis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberty* are the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1858 - 586 pages
...human bondage. In a letter to a distinguished Frenchman, he wrote the following memorable words : " Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when...removed their only firm basis — a conviction in the minda of the people that these liberties are the gift of God'.' that they are not to be violnted except... | |
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