| Henry R. Low - Enslaved persons - 1863 - 36 pages
...prophetic words of Jefferson upon this subject and mark their almost literal fulfillment in our day : f " The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions — the most unremitting ' despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children... | |
| Theodore Parker - Theology - 1863 - 344 pages
...upon them the worst, the most unhealthy and degrading sort of duties and labour." Said Mr Jefferson, " the whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other." The idea of... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1863 - 346 pages
...upon them the worst, the most unhealthy and degrading sort of duties and labour." Said Mr Jefferson, " the whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other." The idea of... | |
| Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the moet unremitting despotism, on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children... | |
| Charles Sumner - Kansas - 1868 - 208 pages
...be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people, produced by the existence of Slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, THE MOST UNREMITTING: DESPOTISM on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other ; our children... | |
| Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...come about a literal fulfilment of the prophetic words of Jefferson in his Notes on Virginia : — " The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions ; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children... | |
| Fitzwilliam Sargent - Great Britain - 1863 - 140 pages
...(see " Thomas Jefferson, Etude Historique," &c., Par De Witt. Paris, p. 129,) Mr. Jefferson said, " The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions— the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. The man must... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1864 - 324 pages
...have I to develope my high qualities at another's expense ? Yes! Jefferson is right when he says : ' The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions; the most unremitting despotism on the one part and degrading submissions on the other. The man must... | |
| James William Massie - Slavery - 1864 - 534 pages
...be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people, produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions ; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children... | |
| Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 588 pages
..."bo an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unrelenting despotism on the one pan, and degrading submission on the other. Our children... | |
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