 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 650 strani
...conduct to a degree equal to the total destruction of Virginia. His strength will increase as a snowball by rolling, and faster, if some expedient cannot be...slaves and servants of the impotency of his designs." The Virginians could plead, and did plead, that "their assemblies had repeatedly attempted to prevent... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 652 strani
...conduct to a degree equal to the total destruction of Virginia. His strength will increase as a snowball by rolling, and faster, if some expedient cannot be...slaves and servants of the impotency of his designs." The Virginians could plead, and did plead, that " their assemblies had repeatedly attempted to prevent... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1878 - 648 strani
...conduct to a degree equal to the total destruction of Virginia. His strength will increase as a snowball by rolling, and faster, if some expedient cannot be...slaves and servants of the impotency of his designs." The Virginians could plead, and did plead, that "their assemblies had repeatedly attempted to prevent... | |
 | 1908 - 304 strani
...he would become the most formidable enemy America had ; " his strength will increase as a snowball by rolling, and faster, if some expedient cannot be...slaves and servants of the impotency of his designs." the responsibility to depart from the resolution respecting them, and gave license for their being... | |
 | 1908 - 288 strani
...he would become the most formidable enemy America had ; " his strength will increase as a snowball by rolling, and faster, if some expedient cannot be...hit upon to convince the slaves and servants of the itnpotency of his designs." the responsibility to depart from the resolution respecting them, and gave... | |
 | Carl Lotus Becker, John Maurice Clark, William Edward Dodd - 1927 - 146 strani
...America has; his strength will increase as the snowball by rolling, and faster if some expedient can not be hit upon to convince the slaves and servants of the impotency of his designs. I do not think forcing his lordship on shipboard is sufficient; nothing less than depriving him of... | |
 | Eli Ginzberg, Alfred S. Eichner - 1993 - 380 strani
...Cambridge, he would become America's most formidable enemy; his strength would increase "as the snowball by rolling; and faster, if some expedient cannot be...convince the slaves and servants of the impotency of his design."44 But such an expedient was difficult to find. Often it was necessary to promise the slaves... | |
 | Fritz Hirschfeld - 1997 - 286 strani
...the Continental Congress as a delegate from Virginia, Washington wrote on December 26 that if Dunmore "is not crushed before Spring, he will become the...convince the Slaves and Servants of the Impotency of His designs."7 The conventional wisdom of the Southern slave-owning community, reflected in Washington's... | |
 | Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, WGBH Series Research Team - 1999 - 554 strani
...black men had donned British uniforms. George Washington carefully assessed Dunmore's challenge: If that man is not crushed before spring, he will become...slaves and servants of the impotency of his designs. Many white Americans feared that Dunmore's proclamation would spark a full-scale insurrection among... | |
 | Robert G. Tanner - 2001 - 198 strani
...development as a real menace: "If that man is not crushed before spring," Washington wrote of Dunmore, "he will become the most formidable enemy America...slaves and servants of the impotency of his designs." Washington was spared this confrontation when Dunmore's regiment was ravaged by smallpox, but the slave... | |
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His strength will increase as a snowball by rolling, and faster, if some expedient cannot be hit upon to convince the slaves and servants of the impotency of his designs. 
