MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting... The American Whig Review - Page 3541851Full view - About this book
| Confederate States of America - 1861 - 178 pages
...And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished dye, he is now exciting these very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase...which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the li—21 — berties... | |
| Peter S. Onuf - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 500 pages
...the African trade, Jefferson also denounced him for encouraging slaves to enlist in the British army, "exciting those very people to rise in arms among...which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one... | |
| Jay Fliegelman - History - 1993 - 296 pages
...accusing George III in the rough draft of the Declaration of "exciting those very people [American slaves] to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them," Jefferson was carefully trying to differentiate between the supposedly noninflammatory language of... | |
| Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms...purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murding the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the... | |
| Priscilla Wald - History - 1995 - 418 pages
...with the allurements of forfeiture & confiscation of our property," and for inspiring slave rebellion ("exciting those very people to rise in arms among...which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them" [TJ, 21-22]). The excised passages disclose a Jefferson in principle... | |
| Rogers M. Smith - Political Science - 1997 - 740 pages
...persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery. . . . [H]e is now exciting those very people to rise in...which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them." But enough of the most powerful among his countrymen thought black... | |
| Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - History - 1997 - 1148 pages
...this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms...which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of rjne... | |
| Oscar Reiss - Social Science - 1997 - 306 pages
...should be bought and sold and that this assemblage of Horrors might want no fact of distinguished die. He is now exciting those very People to rise in Arms among us, and purchase their Liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded... | |
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