 | Joshua Reed Giddings - Slavery - 1853 - 538 pages
...the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. " The man mast be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances." All who were present to hear his speech on Friday last, will admit that the gentleman from Virginia... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 634 pages
...the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens thus... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 628 pages
...the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and...can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such ci-cumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1855 - 714 pages
...on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the sa/ne airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to his worst of passions ; and thus nursed,...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances." Mr. President, if I have demonstrated that the Legislature of the nation have a right from usage, and... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 736 pages
...lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to his worst passions, and, thus nursed, educated and daily exercised...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances." Nobody who witnessed the Senator from South Carolina or the Senator from Virginia in this debate, will... | |
 | James Mursell Phillippo - Cuba - 1857 - 506 pages
...storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of the smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions;...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances/'* Duelling is awfully prevalent in New Orleans. Only a few years since, several persons called "gentlemen"... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 432 pages
...lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose rein to the worst of passions ; and, thus nursed, educated, and...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the Statesman be loaded, who. permitting one half the citizens thus... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 434 pages
...lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose rein to the worst of passions ; and, thus nursed, educated, and...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the Statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens thus... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Abolitionists - 1857 - 348 pages
...lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to his worst passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus... | |
 | American essays - 1872 - 810 pages
...educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. That man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that,... | |
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The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by... 
