| American essays - 1863 - 844 pages
...now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained...leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of Nature,... | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...revolution. The prevailing ideas entertained by Jefferson and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was wrong in principle socially, morally, and politically. Our new government is founded upon exactly the... | |
| African Americans - 1858 - 1094 pages
...immediate cause "of the late rupture and present revolution. " The prevailing ideas entertained by "most of the leading statesmen at the time of " the formation of the old Constitution were, that " the enslavement of the African was in violation "of the laws of nature;... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 572 pages
...now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained...leading statesmen at the time of the formation of tho old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature... | |
| Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1861 - 552 pages
...States, " The prevailing ideas enter" tainod by Mr. Jefferson and most of " the leading statesmen at the time of " the formation of the old constitution...enslavement of the ' African was in violation of the law of ' nature — that it was wrong in principle, ' socially, morally, and politically. . . . ' Those... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 560 pages
...comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideal entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature... | |
| English periodicals - 1861 - 576 pages
...of the Constitution of the Confederate States, " The prevailing ideas enter" tained by Mr. Jefferson and most of " the leading statesmen at the time of " the formation of the old constitution "were, that the enslavement of the ' African was in violation of the law of '... | |
| George Livermore - African Americans - 1862 - 246 pages
...a realized fact. But ' whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained...leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature;... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained...leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature... | |
| Garrett Davis - Confederate States of America - 1862 - 26 pages
...now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained...leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of'the laws of nature;... | |
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