 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 594 páginas
...expresses his sentiments with no less directness: " I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by...some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." In another letter he says : " I hope it will not be conceived from these... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1857 - 348 páginas
...authority ; and this, aa far as my suffrage will go, ahail not be wanting. — Letter to Robert Morris. I never mean, unless some particular circumstance...slave by purchase ; it being among my first wishes to tee some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abulis/tcd by law. — Letter to John... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 páginas
...September 9tb, 1786, General Washington says : — " I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among myjirst wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law."... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 432 páginas
...September 9tb, 1786, General Washington says : — " I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it heing among myjirst wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 páginas
...John F. Mercer, in September, 1786, he writes,—" I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by...some plan adopted by which slavery in this country maybe abolished by law." And eleven years afterwards, in August, 1797, he writes to his nephew, Lawrence... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 páginas
...as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting. I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among Diy first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 804 páginas
...Mercer, of Virginia, he wrote, a few months later: "I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to It, to possess another slave by...some plan adopted by which slavery In this country may be abotished by law." In 1794, he wrote to Tobias Lear, his private secretary, then In England,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1860 - 364 páginas
...the solemn words of the Father of our Country. " I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by...some plan adopted by which Slavery, in this country may be abolished by law." "Abolished!" Washington was an abolitionist ! and there are thousands, and... | |
 | Henry Wilson - 1860 - 24 páginas
...people. Washington •was unanimously borne into the Presidency, and he had avowed it to be "among his first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." Adams was made Vice President, and he held that, " consenting to slavery... | |
 | George Duffield - 1861 - 64 páginas
...Sterling, London, 1857. -j- GEORGE WASHINGTON. " I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by...first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery can be abolished by law." Letter to JF Mercer, September 9th, 1786. JAMES MADISON. " It is wrong to... | |
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I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law. 
