 | George Tucker - 1837 - 636 pages
...yet bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day. Yet the day is not distant, when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing...certain, that the two races, equally free, cannot livo in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion, have drawn indelible lines of distinction between... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1837 - 76 pages
...hear and adopt the general emancipation of their slaves. "Nothing is more certainly written," said he, "in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free." * My countrymen J it is written in a better volume than the book of fate ; it is written in the laws... | |
 | 1838 - 556 pages
...bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day. Yet ' the day is not far distant, when it must bear and adopt it, or ' worse will follow. Nothing...than that these people are to be free, nor is it less 1 certain, that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same ' government. Nature, habit, opinion,... | |
 | 1850 - 744 pages
...the emphatic prophecy, " that emancipation must be adopted, or worse would follow. That nothing was more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people (the negroes) were to be free.'1'1 The manner of this expression is less that of a philosopher than... | |
 | 1853 - 380 pages
...struggle. Whatever is morally wrong cannot be politically right." Referring to the slaves, he says : — " Nothing is more certainly written in the Book of Fate than that these people are to be free." President Jefferson also said, " One hour of American slavery is fraught with more misery than ages... | |
 | 1855 - 560 pages
...our case." Nothing, says Jefferson in the extract which we have just made, is more certainly icritten in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. We neither can nor do we agree with this enunciation of opinion. Without recurring to that curse which... | |
 | 1856 - 654 pages
...that these people (the negroes) are to be fioc ; nor b it less certain that the two races, e inal y free, cannot live in the same Government. Nature,...drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. Ilia still in our power to direct the process of EHASCIPATION AND DEPORTATION, and in such slow degree... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 432 pages
...have involved Heaven itself in darkness, doubtless a God of justice will awaken to their distress. Nothing is more certainly written in the Book of Fate, than that this people shall be free." In a letter to James Heaton, on this same subject, dated May 20, 1826,... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 432 pages
...have involved Heaven itself in darkness, doubtless a God of justice will awaken to their distress. Nothing is more certainly written in the Book of Fate, than that this people shall be free." In a letter to James Heaton, on this same subject, dated May 20, 1826,... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 408 pages
...bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day, (1821.) Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainty written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain,... | |
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Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. 
