 | Charles Sumner - Kansas - 1868 - 208 pages
...part, and degrading submissions on the other ; our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ... The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens thus... | |
 | Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 588 pages
...the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the cirele of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions ; and, thus nursed, educated, and...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances."* Such, according to the testimony of one who had marked its operation with a philosopher's eye, is the... | |
 | Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 592 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."* Such, according to the testimony of one who had marked its operation with a philosopher's eye, is the... | |
 | Robert Livingston Stanton - History - 1864 - 576 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."* Such, according to the testimony of one who had marked its operation with a philosopher's eye, is the... | |
 | Isaac Kelso - Missouri - 1864 - 346 pages
...lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose rein to the worst passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.' " " Poh ! poh ! " said the politician. « Tom Jefferson was a visionary man ; full of new ideas and... | |
 | James William Massie - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 134 pages
...the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances ; and with what execration should the statesman be loaded who, permitting one half of the citizens... | |
 | Daniel Raynes Goodwin - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 356 pages
...the one part, and degrading submission on the other; our children see this, and learn to imitate it The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded who, permitting one half the citizens thus... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 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... | |
 | Elliot G. Storke - United States - 1865 - 818 pages
...passions ; and, thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by its odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should a statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens to trample... | |
 | George Peck - 1865 - 316 pages
...the one part and degrading submission on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. The man must be a prodigy who can retain "his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances." Again he says the masters are, by slavery, " transformed into despots." Col. George Mason, also a Virginian,... | |
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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... 
