 | Frederick Trevor Hill - 1910 - 310 страница
...of his letters dated at this period he wrote: " I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by...some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." Again eleven years later he wrote: "I wish from my soul that the Legislature... | |
 | Emerson David Fite - 1911 - 384 страница
...was likewise against it. Washington wrote, "I never mean, unless some particular set of circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by...some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." Jefferson proposed a plan of emancipation, and added: "Indeed, I tremble... | |
 | George Washington - 1911 - 84 страница
...Mercer, of Virginia, in September, 1786, he writes: "I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by...some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." * "And eleven years afterwards, in August, 1797, he writes to his nephew,... | |
 | Leonard Fletcher Parker - 1911 - 496 страница
...Washington emancipated his slaves and gave some of them farms. He said to Jefferson that it was "among his first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country should be abolished by law." Jefferson said when he considered slavery, "he trembled for his country... | |
 | Thomas Roane Barnes Wright - 1912 - 222 страница
...the same year to John F. Mercer, he said : "I never mean, unless some particular circumstance shall compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase,...some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession, Munford, p. 83. The... | |
 | Paul Leland Haworth - 1915 - 402 страница
...1786 he wrote to John F. Mercer, of Virginia : "I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by...some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." The running away of his colored cook a decade later subjected him to such... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - 1916 - 372 страница
...minds of the people of this country, but I despair of seeing it." 1 And to John Francis 1 May 10, 1786. Mercer: "I never mean (unless some particular circumstance...some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by slow, sure, and imperceptible degrees."1 For many reasons the steadiness of the... | |
 | Albert Hart Sanford - 1916 - 408 страница
...for the abolition of it." Again, he said, "I never mean, unless some particular circumstances shall compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase,...some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." He provided in his will for the emancipation of his slaves at the death of... | |
 | James Augustin Brown Scherer - 1916 - 474 страница
...transforms those into despots and these into enemies." Washington more than once named it as among his "first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law."6 Madison, as he himself writes in his Journal of the Federal Convention,... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1917 - 508 страница
...did not believe in the slave traffic, as this part of his letter to John Mercer in 1786 will show: "I never mean, unless some particular circumstance...wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in the country may be abolished by law."100 In 1799 he wrote Robert Lewis : "It is demonstratively clear,... | |
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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. 
