 And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody...  Old South Leaflets: General series - Page 741902 - 8 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson Miles - 1864 - 44 pages
...mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions." Again, Mr. Jefferson writes : " The support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1865 - 974 pages
...liberty and even life itself, are but dreary things." He denounced political intolerance as being, " as despotic as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions" as those which "religious intolerance had produced." " Every difference of opinion," he declared, "is... | |
 | George Washington Julian - 1872 - 512 pages
...population; and they thus hasten the crisis when slavery shall perish, in the language of Jefferson, " in the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long lost liberty." Such, my friends, is the guilt, and such the responsibility, resting upon these... | |
 | Woman's State Centennial Executive Committee, Wis - 1876 - 262 pages
...the excitement under which he had labored, by saying ' during the throes and convulsions of the old world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long lost liberty, it is not wonderful that the agitation of the billows should have reached this distant... | |
 | William Banks Slaughter - 1878 - 318 pages
...the excitement under which he had labored, by saying " during the throes and convulsions of the Old World, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man seeking through blood and slaughter his long lost liberty, it is not wonderful that the agitation of the billows should have reached this distant... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 pages
...mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. 3. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1879 - 978 pages
...liberty and even life itself, are but dreary things." He denounced political intolerance as being, " as despotic as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions" as those which "religious intolerance had produced." "Every difference of opinion," he declared, "is... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 492 pages
...bitter persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world ; during the agonising spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and...and peaceful shore ; that this should be more felt by some and feared by others . . . but every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 492 pages
...gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world ; during the agonising spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty, it was... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 496 pages
...gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world ; during the agonising spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty, it was... | |
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