| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 632 pages
...that standard the manners of his own nation, familiarized to him by habit. There must doubtless he an unhappy influence on the manners of our people...exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this,... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1855 - 714 pages
...position, he had read sundry passages from Mr. Jefferson's Notes ; the most prominent were the following: " The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is... | |
| James Watson Webb - Campaign literature - 1856 - 112 pages
...leave to the advocates of Slavery-extension, the task of explaining it away. Mr. Jefferson says : — " The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...exercise of the most boisterous passions ; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. * * * With the morals... | |
| Josiah Quincy - History - 1856 - 32 pages
...graphically exhibits " the unhappy influence on the manners of slaveholders by ttfe existence of slavery. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...exercise of the most boisterous passions; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. Our children see this,... | |
| Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 736 pages
...was reminded of the striking words by Jefferson, picturing the influence of Slavery, where he says, " The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. Our children see this,... | |
| 1857 - 448 pages
...that standard the manners of his own nation, familiarized to him by habit. There must, doubtless, be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people...exercise of the most boisterous passions — the most uaremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Oar children see this,... | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 440 pages
...On the 39th and 40th pages of his Notes on Virginia, Jefferson says : — " There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people,...perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions — tho most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children... | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 432 pages
...On the 39th and 40th pages of his Notes on Virginia, Jefferson says : — " There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the man.ners of our people,...perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions — tho most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children... | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 432 pages
...On the 39th and 40th pages of his Notes on Virginia, Jefferson says :— " There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people,...slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions—thn most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames - Abolitionists - 1857 - 348 pages
...objection to our republican, and (saving that deplorable evil) our matchless system. THOMAS JEFFERSON. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...exercise of the most boisterous passions ; the most unremitting despotism on the one part and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this... | |
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