 | Frank Ilsley Paradise - 1921 - 204 lehte
...letter : " The prevailing ideas entertained by Jefferson and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was wrong in principle, morally, socially and politically. Our new government is founded upon exactly the... | |
 | Walter Gaston Shotwell - 1923 - 418 lehte
...at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African race was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was...in principle, socially, morally and politically.' But Stephens added with some emphasis, ' Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested... | |
 | Walter Gaston Shotwell - 1923 - 424 lehte
...was right. . . . The prevailing ideas entertained by Jefferson and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African race was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - 1925 - 566 lehte
...revolution. The prevailing ideas entertained by Jefferson, and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the old constitution were that the enslavement of the African was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. Our new government is founded upon exactly... | |
 | Emanuel Hertz - 1927 - 772 lehte
...entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution was that the enslavement of the African was in violation...wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. . . . Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1917 - 526 lehte
...revolution. The prevailing ideas entertained by Jefferson and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was wrong in principle socially, morally, and politically. Our new government is founded upon exactly the... | |
 | 1863 - 806 lehte
...stands may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution...the laws of Nature, that it was wrong in principle, so. cially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with ; but the... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 696 lehte
...the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Conttitution were, thai the enslatement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was vrtmff in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal... | |
 | Henry Watson Wilbur - 1914 - 232 lehte
...admitted that "the prevailing ideas entertained" by Thomas Jefferson and "most of the leading Statesmen at the time of the formation of the Old Constitution...enslavement of the African was in violation of the "The game, p. 337. laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically."... | |
 | Clint Bolick - 1988 - 174 lehte
...principles of civil rights: The prevailing ideas entertained by ... most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution,...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. ... Those ideas were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of the races,... | |
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The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature — that it was wrong in principle, socially,... 
