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" Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country ! But I despair of seeing it. Some petitions were presented to the Assembly, at its last session, for the abolition of slavery ; but they could scarcely... "
The Works of Charles Sumner - Page 321
by Charles Sumner - 1870
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The Writings of George Washington: pt.III. Private letters from the time ...

George Washington - United States - 1835 - 568 pages
...cultivate it, shall preserve their liberty." — SPARKS'S Life of Gouverneur Morris, Vol. I. p. 410. tions were presented to the Assembly, at its last session,...mischief; but by degrees it certainly might, and assuredly ought to be effected ; and that too by legislative authority. I give you the trouble of a letter to...
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History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle ...

Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...God a like spirit " might diffuse itself generally into the minds of " the people of this country ! But I despair of " seeing it. Some petitions were...slaves afloat at once would, " I really believe, be much inconvenience and " mischief, but by degrees it certainly might, and " assuredly ought to be,...
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The African Repository, Volume 12

African Americans - 1836 - 406 pages
...Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country. But I despair of seeing it. Some petitions were presented...the slaves afloat at once would, I really believe, he productive of mucn inconvenience and mischief, but by degrees it certainly might and assuredly ought...
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Thirty Years Ago: Or, The Memoirs of a Water Drinker, Volume 2

William Dunlap - Literary Criticism - 1836 - 232 pages
...or demand the law of ' Doing to others ay we would have that they should do to us.' " — Johnson, "To set the slaves afloat at once, would, I really...mischief; but by degrees it certainly might, and assuredly ought to be affected ; and that, too, by legislative authority." — Washington. "I was born as free...
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A Plea for Africa: Being Familiar Conversations on the Subject of Slavery ...

Frederick Freeman - African Americans - 1837 - 364 pages
...views. a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country. * * Some petitions were presented to the assembly, at...but, by degrees, it certainly might, and assuredly ought, to be effected ; and that too by legislative authority." Again, in a letter to John F. Mercer,...
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The Writings of George Washington: pt. III. Private letters from the time ...

George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 580 pages
...cultivate it, shall preserve their liberty." — SPARKS'S Life of Gowserneur Morris, Vol. I. p. 410. lions were presented to the Assembly, at its last session,...mischief; but by degrees it certainly might, and assuredly ought to be effected ; and that too by legislative authority. I give you the trouble of a letter to...
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Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette, Volume 2

Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier marquis de Lafayette - France - 1837 - 502 pages
...to God a like spirit would diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country ; but I despair of seeing it. Some petitions were presented...slavery, but they could scarcely obtain a reading. To set them afloat at once, would, I really believe, be productive of much inconvenience and mischief, but...
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"Liberty": The Image and Superscription on Every Coin Issued by the United ...

Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 244 pages
...to God, a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country ! But I despair of seeing it. Some petitions were presented...abolition of slavery; but they could scarcely obtain a hearing. — Letter to Lafayette. _fT never mean, unless some particular circumstance should compel...
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Memoirs of a Water Drinker

William Dunlap - American fiction - 1837 - 440 pages
...or demand the law of ' Daing to others as we would have that they should do to us.' " — Johns'i'i. "To set the slaves afloat at once, would, I really...mischief; but by degrees it certainly might, and assuredly ought to be affected; and that, too, by legislative authority." — Washington. "I was born as free...
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Memoirs of a Water Drinker, Volumes 1-2

William Dunlap - American fiction - 1837 - 512 pages
...demand th;flaw of ' Daing to others as we would have that tiity should do to us.' " — Johnson"To set the slaves afloat at once, would, I really believe,...mischief; but by degrees it certainly might, and assuredly ought to be affected; and that, too, by legislative authority." — Washington. "I was born as free...
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