The Life and Writings of ...Bowen-Merrill Company, 1900 - 476 páginas |
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... bill making it lawful for a master to emancipate his slaves . The prompt and emphatic rejection of the bill caused him to lose hope of the speedy settlement of the slavery question in Vir- ginia , but it did not shake his belief in the ...
... bill making it lawful for a master to emancipate his slaves . The prompt and emphatic rejection of the bill caused him to lose hope of the speedy settlement of the slavery question in Vir- ginia , but it did not shake his belief in the ...
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... bill for the abolition of entails . met , of course , with the fiercest resistance . Strenuous efforts were made to amend the bill in such a way as to break its force . But Jefferson stood firm , and the bill passed substantially in the ...
... bill for the abolition of entails . met , of course , with the fiercest resistance . Strenuous efforts were made to amend the bill in such a way as to break its force . But Jefferson stood firm , and the bill passed substantially in the ...
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... bill for the naturali- zation of foreigners . The conditions of becoming a citizen were made easier than any other government perhaps had ever before dared to make them . The alien was simply to show a residence of two years within the ...
... bill for the naturali- zation of foreigners . The conditions of becoming a citizen were made easier than any other government perhaps had ever before dared to make them . The alien was simply to show a residence of two years within the ...
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... bill failed to pass . Some of its provisions , however , were acceded to by the legislature . The law declaring unorthodox opinion to be criminal was repealed , attendance at church was made voluntary and dissenters were allowed to ...
... bill failed to pass . Some of its provisions , however , were acceded to by the legislature . The law declaring unorthodox opinion to be criminal was repealed , attendance at church was made voluntary and dissenters were allowed to ...
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... bill preventing the further importation of slaves by sea or land . This bill , which readily passed , was intended as the first of a series that should remove every vestige of slavery from the State . His scheme , briefly stated , was ...
... bill preventing the further importation of slaves by sea or land . This bill , which readily passed , was intended as the first of a series that should remove every vestige of slavery from the State . His scheme , briefly stated , was ...
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Página 261 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Página 132 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia ; because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Página 396 - 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.
Página 367 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Página 248 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
Página 232 - ... to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy which at once destroys all religious liberty...
Página 260 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Página 395 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference) The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Página 396 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Página 259 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.