 I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we can do is to improve it, if it happens in our day ; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy...  Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet - Page 67by Roberts Vaux - 1817 - 136 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Hildreth - 1849 - 632 pages
...without them. I will not — I can not justify it ! I believe a time will cdme when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Every...slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot, and an abhorrence of slavery." Washington avowed to all his correspondents " that it was among his first wishes to see... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1853 - 276 pages
...believe a time will come when an opportunity1 will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we can do is to improve it, if it happens in our day...cannot reduce this wished-for reformation to practice, let us treat the unhappy victims with lenity. It is the furthest tadvance we can make towards justice.... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1853 - 282 pages
...believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we can do is to improve it, if it happens in our day...abhorrence for slavery. If we cannot reduce this wished-for reformatioB to practice, let us treat the unhappy victims with lenity. It is the furthest advance we... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 434 pages
...believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we can do is to improve it, if it happens in our day...cannot reduce this wished-for reformation to practice, let us treat the unhappy victims with lenity. It is the furthest advance we can make towards justice.... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 432 pages
...believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we can do is to improve it, if it happens in our day...cannot reduce this wished-for reformation to practice, let us treat the unhappy victims with lenity. It is the furthest advance we can make towards justice.... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1857 - 512 pages
...without them. I will not — I can not justify it. I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Every...slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot, and an abhorrence of slavery.1 The opinions of Jefferson, and Washington, and Madison, and Wythe, and Pinckney, in opposition... | |
 | William Allen - 1857 - 930 pages
...without them. I will not — I cannot justify it, I believe a time will come, when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Every...slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot, and an abhorrence of slavery." With what astonishment and indignation, had he lived till 1850, would he have seen a sober... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1857 - 498 pages
...without them. I will not — I can not justify it. I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Every...slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot, and an abhorrence of slavery.1 The opinions of Jefferson, and Washington, and Madison, and Wythe, and Pinckney, in opposition... | |
 | William Allen - 1857 - 926 pages
...a time will come, when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Every tiling we can do is to improve it, if it happens in our day...slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot, and an abhorrence of slavery." With what astonishment and indignation, had he lived till 185(5, would he have seen a... | |
 | Anthony Benezet, Roberts VAUX - 1859 - 172 pages
...believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we can do is to improve it, if it happens in our day...cannot reduce this wished-for reformation to practice, let us treat the unhappy victims with lenity. It is the furthest advance we can make towards justice.... | |
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