Thomas Jefferson's Views on Public EducationG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1890 - 387 стор. |
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... slavery , owing to the hardships incidental to the cruel bondage to which they were subjected , miser- ably perished , some idea might be formed of the horrors of the tyranny under which they had long groaned . A well written history of ...
... slavery , owing to the hardships incidental to the cruel bondage to which they were subjected , miser- ably perished , some idea might be formed of the horrors of the tyranny under which they had long groaned . A well written history of ...
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... slavery and longed to see it abolished in the United States , Kosciuszko's abhorrence of slavery en- deared him all the more to him . Sympathizing with the Americans in their struggle with the British Govern- ment , he obtained in Paris ...
... slavery and longed to see it abolished in the United States , Kosciuszko's abhorrence of slavery en- deared him all the more to him . Sympathizing with the Americans in their struggle with the British Govern- ment , he obtained in Paris ...
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... slavery , wrote from Mount Vernon a letter to Lafayette , in which he said : " The benevolence of your heart , my dear Marquis , is so con- * Works of John Adams , " vol . viii . , p . 376 . spicuous upon all occasions , that I never ...
... slavery , wrote from Mount Vernon a letter to Lafayette , in which he said : " The benevolence of your heart , my dear Marquis , is so con- * Works of John Adams , " vol . viii . , p . 376 . spicuous upon all occasions , that I never ...
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... slaves on it , is a generous and noble proof of your humanity . Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country . " * When Jefferson left France he left Lafayette struggling in ...
... slaves on it , is a generous and noble proof of your humanity . Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country . " * When Jefferson left France he left Lafayette struggling in ...
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... slaves which he had set free at his own ex- pense , to be re - enslaved . A part of the time his wife , who was worthy to be the wife of a hero , shared his imprison- ment . She was a woman who added lustre to his name . She was however ...
... slaves which he had set free at his own ex- pense , to be re - enslaved . A part of the time his wife , who was worthy to be the wife of a hero , shared his imprison- ment . She was a woman who added lustre to his name . She was however ...
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Сторінка 284 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Сторінка 215 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Сторінка 249 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Сторінка 284 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Сторінка 284 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Сторінка 248 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...
Сторінка 355 - The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Сторінка 268 - No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America.
Сторінка 62 - The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.
Сторінка 345 - No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the constitution of this commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language, and write his name : provided, hoicever, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote...