 | Harriet Martineau - Economic history - 1837 - 428 pages
...to be done. Means, sure but gradual, systematic but discreet, ought to be adopted for reducing the mass of evil which is pressing upon the south, and...hope that the committee or the legislature will do anything, at the present session, to meet this question, yet we say now, in the utmost sincerity of... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...wise men ? Means, sure but gradual, systematic but discreet, ought to be adopted, for reducing the mass of evil which is pressing upon the South, and...more press upon her, the longer it is put off. We say now, in the utmost sincerity of our hearts, that our wisest men cannot give too much of their attention... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 432 pages
...wise men ? Means, sure but gradual, systematic but discreet, ought to be adopted, for reducing the mass of evil which is pressing upon the South, and...more press upon her, the longer it is put off. We say now, in the utmost sincerity of our hearts, that our wisest men cannot give too much of their attention... | |
 | Cicero Willis Harris - Business & Economics - 1902 - 358 pages
...dimensions? . . . Means sure, but gradual, systematic but discreet, ought to be adopted for reducing the mass of evil which is pressing upon the South, and...still more press upon her the longer it is put off." l Some of the leading advocates of emancipation were Messrs. Moore, Thomas J. Randolph, Charles J.... | |
 | William Henry Smith - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1903 - 390 pages
...to be done. Means sure but gradual, systematic but discreet, ought to be adopted, for reducing the mass of evil which is pressing upon the South, and...still more press upon her, the longer it is put off." 1 " But the worst of all these abominations is the modern system of free schools, because the cause... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - African Americans - 1906 - 482 pages
...7, 1832 : " Means, sure but gradual, systematic but discreet, ought to be adopted for reducing the mass of evil which is pressing upon the South, and...still more press upon her the longer it is put off. We say, now, in the utmost sincerity of our hearts, that our wisest men cannot give too much of their... | |
 | Eva Sheppard Wolf - History - 2006 - 310 pages
...editors even advocated some "gradual, systematic" plan for reducing, if not necessarily eliminating, "the mass of evil, which is pressing upon the South, and...will still more press upon her, the longer it is put off."21 With slavery and emancipation becoming increasingly salient public issues, with the select... | |
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Noirs. But something ought to be done. Means, sure but gradual, systematic but discreet, ought to be adopted for reducing the mass of evil which is pressing upon the south, and will still more press upon her the longer it is put off. 