 The benevolence of your heart, my dear Marquis, is so conspicuous upon all occasions, that I never wonder at any fresh proofs of it ; but your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous...  The African Repository - Stran 481836Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier marquis de Lafayette - 1837 - 502 strani
...upon all occasions, that I never wonder at any fresh proof of it ; but your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating...proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit would diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country ; but I despair of seeing... | |
 | Frederick Freeman - 1837 - 364 strani
...all occasions, that I never wonder at any fresh proofs of it ; but your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating...generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God Southern views. a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country.... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 454 strani
...conspicuous on all occasions, that I never wonder at fresh proofs of it; but your late purchase of an estate in the Colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God, a like spirit might diffuse itself generally,... | |
 | 1843 - 404 strani
...but your late purehase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a vicw of emaneipating the slaves, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God, a like spirit might diffuse itself ger'erally into the minds of the pcople of this country ! But I despair of seeing it. Some petitions... | |
 | Ebenezer Mack - 1843 - 392 strani
...all occasions, that I never wonder at any fresh proofs of it ; but your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on ft, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - 1844 - 492 strani
...all occasions, that I never wonder at any fresh proofs of it ; but your late purchase of an estate in the Colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating...into the minds of the people of this country ! But 1 despair of seeing it. Some petitions were presented to the Assembly at its last session for the abolition... | |
 | William Jay - 1853 - 684 strani
...without waiting for a new revelation from Heaven. WAHINGTON : — " Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating...itself generally into the minds of the people of this country." Letter to Lafayette, 10th May, 1 786. JEFFERSON: — " Can the liberties of a nation be thought... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 410 strani
...of calm deliberation, in one of his letters to La Fayette : — " Your late purchase of an estate in Cayenne " with a view of emancipating the slaves on it is a gene" rous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God " a like spirit might diffuse itself generally... | |
 | 1856 - 654 strani
...pleasure, the idea of j their enfranchisement. He says to the Marquis: " Your late purchase of an estate in Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on...a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would tu Coil a like spirit might diffuse Itself generally into the minds of the people of this country!"... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - 1856 - 420 strani
...all his slaves. Washington wrote to Lafayette, when the latter set all his slaves free in Cayenne : " Would to God, a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country. The slaves ought, by degrees, to be set free, and that, too, by legislative authority." Lafayette,... | |
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