 | Peter S. Onuf - 2000 - 276 pages
...for the same reason so many of them had dragged their feet on the question of independence itself. "The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many," Jefferson recalled. "For this reason, those passages which conveyed censures on the people of England... | |
 | Jinping Wu - 2000 - 180 pages
...the Declaration of Independence: The clause . . . reprobating the enslaving of the inhabitants from Africa was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who Responding to the Call of His Times l 7 had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2003 - 276 pages
...reported and laid on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday referred to a committee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...many. For this reason, those passages which conveyed censure on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them offence. January 6,1821... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 460 pages
...reported and lain on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday referred to a committee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...England were struck out, lest they should give them offense. The clause, too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance... | |
 | David Armitage - 2007 - 332 pages
...the slave trade or had been implicated in it before 1 776. As Jefferson reported, "the clause . . . reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa,...out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia . . . our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures; for tho' their... | |
 | Jonathan Mercantini - 2007 - 350 pages
...institution of slavery and criticizing him for the transatlantic slave trade. Jefferson noted that "the clause too reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance to S. Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation, and who on the contrary... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1853 - 570 pages
...offensive to the people of England was carefully struck out of it, and quotes the words of Jefferson, " The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many ; " and he adds, " the omission of these passages warp the truth of this memorable Declaration. George... | |
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The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many. For this reason, those passages which conveyed censures on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them offence. 
