| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 564 páginas
...conviction of Jefferson to his dying day. In the memoir of his life, written at the age of seventy-seven, he gave to his countrymen the solemn and emphatic warning that the day was not far distant when they must hear and adopt the general emancipation of their slaves. "Nothing is more... | |
| Herbert Baxter Adams - 1888 - 732 páginas
...not distant whon it must bearit and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free." There is an interesting letter on abolition in Jefferson's Works, VII, 408. Jefferson prepared statutes... | |
| James Harrison Kennedy - 1888 - 802 páginas
...not distant when they must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature,... | |
| Nicholas Baylies - 1890 - 208 páginas
...not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free." Being a mem' ber of Congress in 1783, he presented the deed of cession made by Virginia of her claim... | |
| Lewis Henry Boutell - 1891 - 94 páginas
...not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, can- * not live in the same government.... | |
| John Wilford Overall - 1892 - 206 páginas
...not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of Fate than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live together in the same government.... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1892 - 558 páginas
...not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature,... | |
| James Schouler - 1893 - 266 páginas
...not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion,... | |
| Charles H. Otken - 1894 - 298 páginas
...in peace. In 1782 Thomas Jefferson wrote concerning the negroes : "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, can not live in the same country." * Senator... | |
| 1911 - 666 páginas
...negro. For example, Thomas Jefferson expressed the opinion that "nothing is more certainly written in the Book of Fate than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Xature,... | |
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