The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 |
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... slaves - Capture of live - stock - State engineer - Losses of state papers . To Fleming and Andrew Lewis , May 13th Council of State . To Marquis de La Fayette , May 14th State of militia duty - Boat building - Meeting of Assembly ...
... slaves - Capture of live - stock - State engineer - Losses of state papers . To Fleming and Andrew Lewis , May 13th Council of State . To Marquis de La Fayette , May 14th State of militia duty - Boat building - Meeting of Assembly ...
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... Slaves are by the Law excluded from the Militia , and wisely as to that part of a Souldiers Duty which consists in exer- cise of Arms . But whether male slaves might not under proper regulations be subjected to the Routine of Duty as ...
... Slaves are by the Law excluded from the Militia , and wisely as to that part of a Souldiers Duty which consists in exer- cise of Arms . But whether male slaves might not under proper regulations be subjected to the Routine of Duty as ...
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... servants . The independance of private life under the protec- tion of republican laws will I hope yield me that happiness from which no slave is so remote as the minister of a commonwealth . From motives of pri- vate esteem as well as ...
... servants . The independance of private life under the protec- tion of republican laws will I hope yield me that happiness from which no slave is so remote as the minister of a commonwealth . From motives of pri- vate esteem as well as ...
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... slavery & not that liberty which the bill of rights has made inviolable and for the preservation of which our government has been charged . Nothing could so completely divest us of that liberty as the establishment of the opinion that ...
... slavery & not that liberty which the bill of rights has made inviolable and for the preservation of which our government has been charged . Nothing could so completely divest us of that liberty as the establishment of the opinion that ...
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... slavery and on the constitution of Virginia are not of that kind , and they are the parts which I do not wish to have ... slaves & the settlement of their constitution on a firmer & more per- manent basis . If I learn from thence , that ...
... slavery and on the constitution of Virginia are not of that kind , and they are the parts which I do not wish to have ... slaves & the settlement of their constitution on a firmer & more per- manent basis . If I learn from thence , that ...
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Էջ 140 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Էջ 140 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it ; I have killed many ; I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace ; but do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Էջ 250 - 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 it with odious peculiarities.
Էջ 208 - For this reason that convention, which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive and judiciary departments should be separate and distinct, so that no person should exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time.
Էջ 98 - If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here ; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable...
Էջ 238 - In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree.
Էջ 98 - Blue Ridge on the other, at the distance each of them of about five miles. This bridge is in the county of Rockbridge, to which it has given name, and affords a public and commodious passage over a valley which cannot be crossed elsewhere for a considerable distance. The stream passing under it is called Cedar creek. It is a water of James...
Էջ 251 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God...
Էջ 389 - ... to be apportioned on them by Congress according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other States...
Էջ 373 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein such State shall be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of the United States on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government.