...quotation, Jefferson's avowal that the surrender of slave property " would not cost him a second thought if emancipation and expatriation could! be effected, and gradually and with due sacrifices, as he thought it might be." Another quotation was from a speech of Clay himself, in 1827, favoring...

...from this heavy reproach, in any practicable way. The cession of that kind of property, for so it is misnamed, is a bagatelle which would not cost me a...have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold hi*ri, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. Of one thing...

...which, as Lincoln reminded his hearers, had called forth a pregnant saying from old Thomas Jefferson : " we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go." The most significant part of his oration dealt specifically with Clay's own attitude towards the problem...

...a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected ; and gradually, and with due sacrifice, I think it might be ; but as it is, we have the wolf by the ears and can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."'...

...Many, who would gladly be rid of slavery, found themselves in the predicament described by Jefferson, "We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go." 38 The status of the slave was determined directly by the rise of the slave-power and on the whole...

...Many, who would gladly be rid of slavery, found themselves in the predicament described by Jefferson, "We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go."38 The status of the slave was determined directly by the rise of the slave-power and on the whole...

...from this heavy reproach, in any practicable way. The cession of that kind of property, for so it is misnamed, is a bagatelle which would not cost me a...expatriation could be effected, and gradually and with due sacrifice, I think it might be. But as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold...

...from this heavy reproach, in any practical way. The cession of that kind of property, for so it is misnamed, is a bagatelle which would not cost me a...as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we can 1 John Holmes, of Massachusetts and Maine, 1773-1843, who became a Republican in 1811. He was active...

...from this heavy reproach, in any practicable way. The cession of that kind of property, for so it is misnamed, is a bagatelle which would not cost me a...expatriation could be effected, and gradually and with due sacrifice, I think it might be. But as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold...

...The cessation of that kind of property, for it is so misnamed, is a bagatelle which would not give me a second thought, if in that way a general emancipation...and expatriation could be effected, and gradually with due sacrifice, I think it might be done * * *" He anticipated the problem with which the country...