 I never mean, unless some particular circumstance 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.  Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society - Stran 115avtor: Massachusetts Historical Society - 1863Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 440 strani
...should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among myjirsl wishes to sec some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law." In a letter to Robert Morr.-s, dated Mount Vernon, April 12, 1786, he says :— " I can only say that... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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.... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1860 - 364 strani
...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...Slavery, in this country may be abolished by law." "Abolished!" Washington was an abolitionist ! and there are thousands, and tens of thousands at the... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 804 strani
...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...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, endeavoring... | |
 | Henry Wilson - 1860 - 24 strani
...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 is a sacrilegious breach of... | |
 | George Duffield - 1861 - 64 strani
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 strani
...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...slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law. VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS. There is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists, in the... | |
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