An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes as Slaves, as Citizens, and as SoldiersJ. Wilson and son, 1862 - 236 Seiten |
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... expressed the gratification with which he had lis- tened to a paper containing so much valuable information , and hoped that it might be printed in the manner most agreeable to Mr. Livermore . He suggested that the motion of Mr. Norton ...
... expressed the gratification with which he had lis- tened to a paper containing so much valuable information , and hoped that it might be printed in the manner most agreeable to Mr. Livermore . He suggested that the motion of Mr. Norton ...
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... expressed in debate in the Federal Convention , 62–78 . — Mr. Pinckney of South Carolina , 64. Mr. Sherman , 64. Mr. Ellsworth , 65. Mr. Gouverneur Morris , 66-68 . - - Mr. Rufus King , 68 , 69. — Mr. Sherman , 69. - Mr. Luther Martin ...
... expressed in debate in the Federal Convention , 62–78 . — Mr. Pinckney of South Carolina , 64. Mr. Sherman , 64. Mr. Ellsworth , 65. Mr. Gouverneur Morris , 66-68 . - - Mr. Rufus King , 68 , 69. — Mr. Sherman , 69. - Mr. Luther Martin ...
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... having changed its policy or action , and violated some expressed or implied agreement respecting the supposed sacred and paramount rights of slavery . But , as historical inquirers , we should not impli- 18 HISTORICAL RESEARCH .
... having changed its policy or action , and violated some expressed or implied agreement respecting the supposed sacred and paramount rights of slavery . But , as historical inquirers , we should not impli- 18 HISTORICAL RESEARCH .
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... expressed them , therefore , with great hesitation ; but , whatever be their de gree of talent , it is no measure of their rights . Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding , he was not , therefore , lord of the ...
... expressed them , therefore , with great hesitation ; but , whatever be their de gree of talent , it is no measure of their rights . Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding , he was not , therefore , lord of the ...
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... signatures . from that Colony . But the people of Georgia , as soon as they could speak by their Representatives , Provincial Congress expressed themselves as distinctly on this point as 4 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE . 25.
... signatures . from that Colony . But the people of Georgia , as soon as they could speak by their Representatives , Provincial Congress expressed themselves as distinctly on this point as 4 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE . 25.
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Seite 17 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Seite 18 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Seite 3 - The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year 1808, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
Seite 16 - I advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.
Seite 2 - ... so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; M Howard and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced p.
Seite 7 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...
Seite xvi - The prevailing ideas 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; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Seite xvi - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Seite 53 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Seite 49 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.