 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1902 - 184 pages
...Constitution, the negro was bought and sold as an ordinary article of merchandise; that he was considered unfit to associate with the white race; either in...social or political relations, and so far inferior that he "had no rights which a white man was bound torespect." In support of this conclusion, he cites the... | |
 | John Roy Musick - History - 1897 - 300 pages
...proclamation that " all men are created equal." He said the negroes " had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and...inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect, and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit."... | |
 | Charles Morris - United States - 1897 - 638 pages
...Constitution was adopted negroes had long been regarded as beings of a lower order than the whites, "and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." of whose leadership in the Kansas trouble we have spoken, was an old man who... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - Constitutional law - 1898 - 702 pages
...in the general words used in that memorable instrument. ... They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and...inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - History - 1899 - 446 pages
...Constitution of the United States free negroes were not citizens : "They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and...inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect ; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.... | |
 | Will Thomas Hale - Southern States - 1900 - 278 pages
...the abolitionists to harping more than ever: "They [the negroes] had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and...inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect, and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit."... | |
 | Joseph Warren Keifer - History - 1900 - 386 pages
...used." And this Chief-Justice said further: " They [the negroes] had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and...inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect, and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit."... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 434 pages
...before the Declaration of Independence and the adoption of our Constitution people of the African race had " been regarded as beings of an inferior order,...race, either in social or political relations " ; and this unhappy asseveration culminates in the words, "and so far inferior that they had no rights which... | |
 | William C. King - Biography - 1900 - 680 pages
...wherein he declared the negroes conld not become citizens, saying they had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and...race, either in social or political relations, and had DO rights which the white man was bound to respect, and that the negro might justly and lawfully... | |
 | William Livingstone - Michigan - 1900 - 596 pages
...nation displays it in a manner too plaiu to be mistaken. They had, for more than a century before, been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, and so far inferior that they had no rights which a white man was bound to respect. and that the negroes... | |
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They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound... 
