 | George Washington - United States - 1835 - 568 pages
...circumstances 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." — September 9th, 1786. I will make no apology for writing to you on this subject, for, if Mr. Dalby... | |
 | African Americans - 1836 - 406 pages
...compel me to it, t» possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some pla» adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." STATE OF AFRICA. The Boston Recorder for lust New Year's day contains a Icng and interesting editorial... | |
 | William Dunlap - American fiction - 1837 - 440 pages
...another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery iu this country may be abolished by law." — Washington....death what dreams may chance To come, must give us pause. " — S/mkspeare. SOME weeks had flown on time's wings, when another incident occurred, even... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 716 pages
...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. — Letter to John F. Mercer. Because there are, in Pennsylvania, laws for the gradual abolition of... | |
 | Frederick Freeman - African Americans - 1837 - 364 pages
...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." ' Mr. JEFFERSON asks, " Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we have removed their... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 580 pages
...circumstances 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." — September 9th, 1786. I will make no apology for writing to you on this subject, for, if Mr. Dalby... | |
 | William Dunlap - American fiction - 1837 - 512 pages
...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes Ip see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — WaMngton. "Just Death ! kind umpire of man's miseries." " Our little life is roumded with a slesp."... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Weld - Enslaved persons - 1838 - 66 pages
...In a letter to John Fenton Mercer, dated Sept. 9, 1786, he says : " It is among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." In a letter to Sir John Sinclair, he says : " There are in Pennsylvania, laws for the gradual abolition... | |
 | African Americans - 1838 - 400 pages
...circumstance should compel we 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."f The following extract is from a letter to the Marquis de Lafayett«, dated 10f May, 17S6: The... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 454 pages
...circumstances 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 bylaw. - "—Letter to John F. Mercer. These were the sentiments of the father of his-country on this... | |
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I never mean, unless some particular circumstances 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. 
