| Charles Simmons - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...against human intelligence ; to resist that improvement which is the end of the Creator. Jefferson. The whole commerce between master and slave, is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions—the most unremitting despotism on one part, and degrading submissions on the other. * *... | |
| English essays - 1852 - 498 pages
...than fear. "'There must doubtless,' says Mr. Jefferson, 'be an unhappy influence on the manners of the people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between mas* Mr. Fenmn mormous a religious lottery for building * Presbyterian church. What will Mr. Littleton... | |
| William Wells Brown - 1853 - 296 pages
...Thomas Jeffeison, the man who, when speaking against slavery in the legislature of Virginia, said, "The whole commerce between master and slave is a...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. With what execration should the statesman be loaded who, permitting one half... | |
| Joshua Reed Giddings - Slavery - 1853 - 530 pages
...intercourse between master and slave. On this point, Mr, Jefferson, in his " Notes on Virginia," says : " The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...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... | |
| William Goodell - Enslaved persons - 1853 - 458 pages
...at the head of this chapter, for the correctness of which we here cite a few personal testimonies. " The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...unremitting DESPOTISM on the one part, and degrading SUBMISSION on the other." " Thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny," &c. (Jefferson.)... | |
| Joshua Reed Giddings - Slavery - 1853 - 538 pages
...this point, Mr. Jefferson, in his " Notes on Virginia," says : " The whole commerce between muster and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous...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... | |
| Slavery - 1853 - 508 pages
...philanthropic a heart is justly entitled. " The whole commerce between master and slave," says he, " is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it, for man is an imitative animal... | |
| Slavery - 1853 - 380 pages
...Civil Code, Art. 23. " The slave is ENTIRELY subject to the WILL of his master." — Ib., Art. 273. " The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unre•,'iutting despotism on the one part and degrading submissions on the other." — Jefferson.... | |
| Slavery - 1853 - 518 pages
...most boisterous passions ; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it, for man is an imitative animal—this quality is the germ of education in him. From his cradle to his grave, he is learning... | |
| Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1853 - 792 pages
...no Southern man may gainsay. " There must be," he says, " an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of Slavery among us. The whole commerce between the master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting... | |
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