 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 918 pages
...state of bondage in which they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your heart, and I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work. Your purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on it,... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 476 pages
...he writes to Lafayette, who had bought an estate in Cayenne, with a view to emancipate the slaves, " I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work. It is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 480 pages
...he writes to Lafayette, who had bought an estate in Cayenne, with a view to emancipate the slaves, " I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work. It is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself... | |
 | George Washington - 1783 - 618 pages
...that state of Bondage in wch. they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your Heart. I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work; but will defer going into a detail of the business, 'till I have the pleasure of seeing you.19 Lord... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 696 pages
...that nate of bondage in which they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your heart I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work ; but will defer going into a detail of the business until I have the pleasure of seeing you." —... | |
 | Fritz Hirschfeld - 1997 - 286 pages
...that state of Bondage in wch. they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your Heart. I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work; but will defer going into a detail of the business, 'till I have the pleasure of seeing you.16 Taken... | |
 | Robert F. Dalzell, Lee Baldwin Dalzell - 2000 - 324 pages
...my time to render the method fashionable in the West Indies" ;ibid., n. 10l. In his reply GW wrote: "I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work," but suggested they wait until they met again to discuss the details "of the business" ;ibid.l. The... | |
 | Bruce Chadwick - 2005 - 595 pages
...that state of bondage in which they are held is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your heart. I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work. " — George Washington to Marquis de Lafayette, April 5, 1783 "/ can only say that there is not a... | |
 | Gary B. Nash - 2006 - 270 pages
...tack."38 Washington did not dismiss the idea, knowing he might be the exemplar for others to follow. "I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work," he told Lafayette, and added that he would welcome seeing his surrogate son to discuss the details... | |
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The scheme, my dear Marquis, which you propose as a precedent to encourage the emancipation of the black people in this country from that state of bondage in which they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your heart. I shall be happy... 
