 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 408 pages
...with the Bible, and destructive of liberty ? Every thinking, honest man rejects it in speculation, but how few in practice, from conscientious motives ! Would any one believe that I am a master of slaves of my own purchase ? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - 1906 - 482 pages
...with the Bible and destructive of liberty. Every thinking, honest man rejects it as speculation, but how few in practice from conscientious motives ! Would any one believe that I am a master of slaves of my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1917 - 508 pages
...speculation, but how few in practice from conscientious motives ! Would any one believe that I am a master of slaves of my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them."39 Jefferson in a letter written in 1815 expressed the hope that slavery would in time... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1917 - 478 pages
...with the Bible and destructive of liberty. Every thinking honest man rejects it as speculation, but how few in practice from conscientious motives! Would any one believe that I am a master of slaves of my own purchase? / am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1922 - 696 pages
...1773 : "Every thinking honest man rejects it [slavery] in speculation, but how few in practice. . . . Would any one believe that I am master of slaves of...drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them. I will not, I cannot, justify it. However culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir... | |
 | Willis Duke Weatherford - 1924 - 498 pages
...noble efforts to abolish slavery ; they are equally calculated to promote moral and political good. Would any one believe that I am master of slaves of...drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without * Quoted from Munford's "Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession," p. 17. them. I... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1927 - 710 pages
...1773: "Every thinking honest man rejects it [slavery] in speculation, but how few in practice. . . . Would any one believe that I am master of slaves of...drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them. I will not, I cannot, justify it. However culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir... | |
 | Duncan J. MacLeod - 1975 - 260 pages
...inconsistent with the Bible and destructive to Liberty.' But, like the Fontaines, Henry was a slaveholder. 'Would any one believe that I am Master of Slaves of my own purchase !' he demanded. 'I am drawn along by yc general inconvenience of living without them, I will not, I... | |
 | A. Leon Higginbotham - 1980 - 548 pages
...abstract analysis to the more difficult task of facing these same contradictions within himself, he noted: Would any one believe that I am Master of Slaves of my own purchasel I am drawn along by ye general Inconvenience of living without them; I will not, I cannot... | |
 | Carter A. Wilson - 1996 - 296 pages
...from implementing this idea in actual practice. Henry, writing to an antislavery Quaker, explained, Would any one believe that I am Master of Slaves of my own purchasel I am drawn along by ye general inconvenience of living without them; I will not, I cannot... | |
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