 I can only say, that there is not a man living, who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it ; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by legislative authority ;...  The Philosophy of Human Nature - Page 314by Francis E. Brewster - 1851 - 447 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Washington - 1835 - 568 pages
...wish to hold the unhappy people, who are the subject of this letter, in slavery. I can only say, that there is not a man living, who wishes more sincerely...than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by... | |
 | William Dunlap - 1836 - 256 pages
...wish to hold the unhappy people, who are the subject of this letter, in slavery. I can only say, that there is not a man living, who wishes more sincerely...than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished ; and that is,... | |
 | Frederick Freeman - 1837 - 364 pages
...otherwise unavoidable." ' GEN. WASHINGTON, in a letter to Robert Morris, dated April 12, 1786, says " There is not a man living, who wishes more sincerely...; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by legislative authority ; and this, as far as my suffrage... | |
 | William Dunlap - 1837 - 512 pages
...wish to hold the unhappy people, who are the subject of this letter, in slavery. I can only say, that there is not a man living, who wishes more sincerely...than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished ; and that is,... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1835 - 580 pages
...wish to hold the unhappy people, who are the subject of this letter, in slavery. I can only say, that there is not a man living, who wishes more sincerely...than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it ; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Weld - 1838 - 66 pages
...have conceded this power. Washington, in a letter to Robert Morris, dated April 12, 1786, says : " There is not a man living, who wishes more sincerely...; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by legislative authority." In a letter to Lafayette, dated... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1839 - 420 pages
...from guilt unless he has done all that lies in him to act out these words of George Washington : " There is not a man living, who wishes more sincerely...than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it [slavery]; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1839 - 576 pages
...wish to hold the unhappy people, who are the subject of this letter, in slavery. I can only say, that there is not a man living, who wishes more sincerely...than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it ; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1845 - 652 pages
...two extracts will answer our purpose. In a letter to Robert Morris, dated April 12, 1786, he says : " There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely...adopted for the abolition of slavery ; but there is onlv one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by legislative authority."... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1859 - 1126 pages
...selections from their works. By CHARLES D. CLEVELAND. Philadelphia: 1859. EC & J. Biddle. 12mo. pp. 984. " There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely...than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it, [slavery.] But there ia only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and... | |
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