 | George Washington - United States - 1835 - 568 pages
...some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by...slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — September 9th, 1786. I will make no apology for writing to you on this subject, for, if Mr. Dalby... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 572 pages
...some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave hy purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by...slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — September 9th, 1786. I will make no apology for writing to you on this subject, for, if Mr. Dalby... | |
 | William Dunlap - Literary Criticism - 1836 - 232 pages
...some particular circumstances should compel ms to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by...slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — Washington. "Just Death ! kind umpire of man's miseries." " Our little life is rounded with a sleep."... | |
 | William Dunlap - Literary Criticism - 1836 - 256 pages
...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes la see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — Washington. "Just Death ! kind umpire of man's miseries." " Our little life is rounded with a sleep."... | |
 | African Americans - 1836 - 406 pages
...compel me to it, t» possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some pla» adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." STATE OF AFRICA. The Boston Recorder for lust New Year's day contains a Icng and interesting editorial... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 580 pages
...some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by...slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — September 9th, 1786. I will make no apology for writing to you on this subject, for, if Mr. Dalby... | |
 | Frederick Freeman - African Americans - 1837 - 364 pages
...some particular circumstance should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by...slavery in this country may be abolished by law." ' Mr. JEFFERSON asks, " Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we have removed their... | |
 | William Dunlap - American fiction - 1837 - 512 pages
...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes Ip see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — WaMngton. "Just Death ! kind umpire of man's miseries." " Our little life is roumded with a slesp."... | |
 | William Dunlap - American fiction - 1837 - 440 pages
...some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery iu this country may be abolished by law." — Washington. "Just Death ! kind umpire of man's miseries."... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Weld - Enslaved persons - 1838 - 66 pages
...too by legislative authority." In a letter to John Fenton Mercer, dated Sept. 9, 1786, he says : " It is among my first wishes to see some plan adopted...slavery in this country may be abolished by law." In a letter to Sir John Sinclair, he says : " There are in Pennsylvania, laws for the gradual abolition... | |
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I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law. 
