 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1896 - 504 pages
...thinking, honest man rejects it in speculation. How free in practice from conscientious motives ! ever culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to...precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them. I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 408 pages
...am a master of slaves of my own purchase ? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them. I will not, I cannot justify it ; however...precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them." This merely theoretical kind of anti-slavery spirit lost all aggressive force, as those whose pecuniary... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 452 pages
...1786: Writings of Washington, ed. Sparks, Vol. IX. p. 169. that he was the master of slaves, said : " I will not, I cannot justify it. However culpable...precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them. I believe a time will come, when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil." 1... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 392 pages
...the Orator of Liberty, Patrick Henry, who, while confessing that he was a master of slaves, said : " I will not, I cannot justify it. However culpable...and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my want of con1 Life rin. I Writings, Vol. I. pp. 229, 280. > Notes on Virginia, Query XVIII. : Writings, Vol.... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1917 - 478 pages
...general inconvenience of living here without them. I will not, I cannot justify it. However capable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to virtue,...precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them. "I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Every... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1922 - 696 pages
...that I am master of slaves of my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them. I will not, I cannot, justify it. However...precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them." slavery within its borders. The antislavery clause of Jefferson's ordinance was lost by the vote of... | |
 | Homer Carey Hockett - 1925 - 470 pages
...same letter quoted above Patrick Henry wrote, "I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them. I will not, I cannot, justify it. However...precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them." Moreover, the large number of blacks in the Southern states made emancipation a much more difficult... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1927 - 710 pages
...that I am master of slaves of my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them. I will not, I cannot, justify it. However...precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them." slavery within its borders. The antislavery clause of Jefferson's ordinance was lost by the vote of... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 1967 - 128 pages
...purchase! I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living here without them. I will not, I can not justify it. However culpable my conduct, I will so...precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them. I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything... | |
 | Jennifer L. Hochschild, Joseph Hochschild - 1984 - 284 pages
...purchasel I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living here without them. I will not, I can not justify it. However culpable my conduct, I will so...precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them. I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything... | |
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I will not, I cannot justify it. However culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to virtue, as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them. 
