 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 612 strani
...that this project will have to combat much opposition from prejudice and self-interest. The contempt we have been taught to entertain for the blacks, makes...pernicious tendency of a scheme which requires such sacrifices. But it should be considered, that if we do not make use of them in this way, the enemy... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 596 strani
...Carolina, " by contributions from the owners, in proportion to the number they possess." " The contempt we have been taught to entertain for the blacks, makes...pernicious tendency of a scheme which requires such sacrifices. An essential part of the plan is to give them their FREEDOM with THEIR SWORDS, this will... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1864 - 850 strani
...words that cannot soon be unremembered. " The contempt," he writes to the President of Congress,* " we have been taught to entertain for the blacks, makes...pernicious tendency of a scheme which requires such sacrifices. . . . An essential part of the plan is to give them their freedom with their swords. This... | |
 | John Hancock - 1865 - 52 strani
...Let officers be men of sense and sentiment, and the nearer soldiers approach to machines, the better. will furnish a thousand arguments to show the impracticability...pernicious tendency of a scheme which requires such sacrifices. ******* An essential part of this plan is to give them their freedom with their swords.... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1875 - 750 strani
...make very excellent soldiers. This project will have to combat prejudice and self-interest. Contempt for the blacks makes us fancy many things that are founded neither in reason nor experience. Their natural faculties are as good as ours. Give them their freedom with their muskets : this will... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1875 - 770 strani
...make very excellent soldiers. This project will have to combat prejudice and self-interest. Contempt for the blacks makes us fancy many things that are founded neither in reason nqr experience. Their natural faculties are as good as ours. Give them their freedom •with their... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1876 - 472 strani
...doubt that the negroes will make very excellent soldiers, with proper management. . . . The contempt we have been taught to entertain for the blacks makes...that are founded neither in reason nor experience. . . . An essential part of the plan is, to give them their freedom with their swords. This will secure... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1876 - 456 strani
...doubt that the negroes will make very excellent soldiers, with proper management. . . . The contempt we have been taught to entertain for the blacks makes...that are founded neither in reason nor experience. . . . An essential part of the plan is, to give them their freedom with their swords. This will secure... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 676 strani
...make very excellent soldiers. This project will have to combat prejudice and self-interest. Contempt for the blacks makes us fancy many things that are founded neither in reason nor experience. Their natural faculties are as good as ours. Give them their freedom with their muskets : this will... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1878 - 676 strani
...make very excellent soldiers. This project will have to combat prejudice and self-interest. Contempt for the blacks makes us fancy many things that are founded neither in reason nor experience. Their natural faculties are as good as ours. Give them their freedom with their muskets: this will... | |
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The contempt we have been taught to entertain for the blacks makes us fancy many things that are founded neither in reason nor experience; and an unwillingness to part with property of so valuable a kind will furnish a thousand arguments to show the impracticability... 
