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
| W. O. Blake - 1857 - 934 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. " WASHINGTON avowed to all his correspondents " that it was among his first wishes to see... | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper - 1860 - 464 pages
...be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we can do is to improve it, if it happens iu our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants,...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.... | |
| George Duffield - 1861 - 64 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...an abhorrence for slavery. If we cannot reduce this wished for reformation to practice, let us treat the unhappy victims with lenity. It is the furthest... | |
| George Bancroft - 1864 - 572 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;...slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot, and an abhorrence of slavery. We owe to the purity of our religion, to show that it is at variance with that law which... | |
| GEORGE BANCROFT - 1876 - 552 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;...slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot, and an abhorrence of slavery. We owe to the purity of our religion, to show that it is at variance with that law which... | |
| Richard Hildreth - 1877 - 608 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." Washington avowed to all his correspondents " that it was among his first wishes to see... | |
| George Bancroft - 1883 - 524 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...slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery. We owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which... | |
| George Bancroft - 1884 - 708 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...slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery. "We owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which... | |
| Samuel Jones Tilden - 1885 - 666 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...with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and our abhorrence of slavery." Mr. Madison, speaking in one of the numbers of the " Federalist " of the... | |
| Moses Coit Tyler - 1887 - 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...slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot, and an abhorrence of slavery. We owe to the purity of our religion, to show that it is at variance with that law which... | |
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