...and the other-half are enemies; one-half are losing their morals and the other half their patriotism. With the morals of the people their industry is also destroyed, for in a warm climate a man will not work if he can get another to do his work. Can the liberties of a nation be thought...

...man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. . . . With the morals of the people, their industry is also destroyed. For in a warm climate, no man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him. This is so true, that of the proprietors of...

...faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavors to the evanishment of the human race, or entail his own miserable condition...him. With the morals of the people, their industry also is destroyed. For in a warm climate, no man will labor for himself who can make another labor...

...white people, both adults and children. Slavery also tended to destroy the "industry" of the masters, "for in a warm climate, no man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him." Slavery hardened the consciences of the masters. Used to "seeing the degraded condition, both bodily...

...faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavours to the evanishment of the human race, or entail his own miserable condition...on the endless generations proceeding from him"), he is much more concerned for the moral and physical threat produced by the slave system for "our people"...

...trample on the rights of the other half, destroying their own sense of righteousness in the process. "With the morals of the people, their industry is also destroyed. For in a warm climate, no man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him." By all rights, according to Jefferson, such...

...faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavours to the evanishment of the human race, or entail his own miserable condition...him. With the morals of the people, their industry also is destroyed. For in a warm climate, no man will labour for himself who can make another labour...

...faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavours to the evanishment of the hu-man race, or entail his own miserable condition...him. With the morals of the people, their industry also is destroyed. For in the warm climate, no man will labour for himself who can make another labour...

...faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavors to the evanishment of the human race, or entail his own miserable condition...proceeding from him. With the morals of the people, 14 their industry also is destroyed. For in a warm climate, no man will labor for himself who can make...

...faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavors to the evanishment of the human race, or entail his own miserable condition on the endless generations proceeding from him. 1 '* And when Congress in 1820 adopted the Missouri Compromise, Jefferson was almost anguished: I regret...