 | John Howard Hinton - 1850 - 1016 strani
...daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped with its odious peculiarities. The man must indeed be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. With what execration then should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one-half of the citizens... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1850 - 498 strani
...share the degradation to which he dooms his fellow-man. " He must be a prodigy," says Jefferson, " who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances." And this is not all. The whole social fabric is disorganized ; labor loses its dignity ; industry sickens... | |
 | 1851 - 798 strani
...describes the "child reared in the midst of slavery as marked with odious peculiarities," and adds, " the man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and his morals undepraved by such circumstances ;" and again, " with the morals of a people, their indratry... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 strani
...circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to his worst of passions; and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. [See 973.] 893. SLAVERY, DANGEROUS. Jefferson. The hour of emancipation must come ; but whether it... | |
 | 1852 - 498 strani
...circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to the worst of passions; and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it...peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his morals and manners undepraved by such circumstances.' — Notes, p. 241." — hall, p. 459. The following... | |
 | 164 strani
...cannot but bo stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain hia manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances....loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens thus to tramplo on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies — destroys... | |
 | Joshua Reed Giddings - 1853 - 530 strani
...passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. " The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances." All who were present to hear his speech on Friday last, will admit that the gentleman from Virginia... | |
 | Joshua Reed Giddings - 1853 - 538 strani
...the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. " The man mast be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances." All who were present to hear his speech on Friday last, will admit that the gentleman from Virginia... | |
 | 1853 - 798 strani
...associate with them, is well known to all careful and observing parents." P. 216. So said Jefferson : " The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals uncontnminated," [in the midst of slavery.] Judge Tucker of Virginia, said, in 1801 : " I say nothing... | |
 | Wilson Armistead - 1853 - 384 strani
...the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to his worst passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in TYRANNY, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities." — Jefferson. If slaveholding be not tyranny, what practice can be deserving of that name ? The definition... | |
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The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by... 
