 The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many. For this reason, those passages which conveyed censures on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them offence.  The life of Thomas Jefferson - Stran 152avtor: Henry Stephens Randall - 1858Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1876 - 536 strani
...Series, I., p. 1136. ' Elliot, Deb., I., p. 54; Adams, Works, III., p. 89. 'Jetferson writes: "The clause was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and...had never attempted to restrain the importation of slavesand who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it." Jell'., Works, I., p. 170. This passage... | |
 | Edward Howland - 1877 - 858 strani
...rest of this session, and those of the 3d and 4th of July. Of these discussions Jefferson says : ' ' The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...many. For this reason, those passages which conveyed censure on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them offence. The clause, too,... | |
 | Edward Howland - 1877 - 848 strani
...4th of July. Of these discussions Jefferson says : " The pusillanimous idea that we had friends*in England worth keeping terms with still haunted the minds of many. For tliis reason, those passages which conveyed censure on the people of England were struck out, lest... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1910 - 814 strani
...this copy is in the Madison Papers, in the Library of Congress. referred to a commee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, whoh;id never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished... | |
 | Egerton Ryerson - 1880 - 556 strani
...allegations, and principles of this paper were subjected to severe scrutiny. Its author relates : ' The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...many. For this reason, those passages which conveyed censure on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them offence. The clause, too,... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1881 - 676 strani
...terms with still haunted the minds of many. For this reason, those passages which conveyed censure on the people of England were struck out, lest they...in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who hud never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, wished to continue... | |
 | William Francis Brand - 1883 - 408 strani
...King of England for his crnel war against human nature. In his memoir Mr. Jefferson says: "The clanie reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa...out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia. . . . Onr Northern brethren also, I believe, felt a little tender under those censures ; for though... | |
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - 1885 - 624 strani
...Jefferson, in his autobiographical ' Memoir of the Convention' (p. 15, ed. 1830), makes this record : " The clause, too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in compliance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves,... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - 1888 - 802 strani
...the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday referred to a committee of the whole. The pusilanimous idea, that we had friends in England worth keeping...struck out, lest they should give them offence. The debates having taken up the greater part of the second, third, and fourth days of July, were, in the... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1891 - 538 strani
...committee of the whole. The pusil| lanimous idea that we had friends in England 'worth keeping terms with j still haunted the minds of many. For this reason,...reprobating the enslaving the / inhabitants of Africa, waa struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the... | |
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