 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 454 էջ
...effected, and that, too, h/ legislative authority." — Letter of Washington to Lafayette, May 10, 1786. " I never mean, unless some particular circumstances...Slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — Letter of Washington to John F. Mercer , September 9, 1786. " From what I have said, you will perceive... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 464 էջ
...effected, and that. ton. ly legislative authority." — Letter of Washington to LnfayMe, May 10, 1786. " I never mean, unless some particular circumstances...possess another slave by purchase, it being among my jirnt wisltes to sec some filan adopted la/ u'/u'c/i Slavery in this country may be abolished by law."... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 542 էջ
...Washington speak for them. " It is among my first wishes," he said, in a letter to John F. Mercer, " to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may ~be abolished by law"* And in his will, penned with his own hand, during the last year of his life, he bore his testimony... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 474 էջ
...state of things among us. Let them bear in mind that he declared it to be " among his first iffishes to see some plan adopted by which Slavery in this country may be abolished by law," — that, to promote this purpose, he expressed a desire, in a recorded inter-' view with a distinguished... | |
 | Josiah Woodward Leeds - 1877 - 500 էջ
...men of Virginia strongly favored the extinction of slavery. Washington wrote as follows, in 1786 : " I never mean, unless some particular circumstances...slavery in this country may be abolished by law." And again, he says : "There are in Pennsylvania, laws for the gradual abolishing of slavery, which... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1863 - 548 էջ
...Washington wrote to Mr. John F. Mercer, of Maryland: — " I never mean, unless some particular circumstance should compel me to it, to possess another slave by...slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — Ibid. That Washington believed his wishes with regard to the abolition of slavery would at no distant... | |
 | 1879 - 542 էջ
...been printed for the first time. He says in it: 'I never mean (unless some particular circumstance should compel me to it) to possess another slave by...among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by the Legislature whereby slavery in this country may be abolished by slow, "ure, and imperceptible degrees."... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1881 - 338 էջ
...property in their slaves,' I deem it proper to say, in the language of George Washington, ' that it is among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by...slavery in this country may be abolished by law.'* "Second. The statute under which this presentment was made, when taken in connection with the Constitution... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 536 էջ
...which he had long entertained. In a letter to Mr. John F. Mercer, in September, 1786, he writes, " I never mean, unless some particular circumstances...slavery in this country may be abolished by law." And eleven years afterwards, in August, 1797, he writes to his nephew, Lawrence Lewis, in a letter... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 էջ
...and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting. I never mean, unless some peculiar circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another...which slavery in this country may be abolished by law. JOHN ADAMS. From a LETTER TO HIS WIFE. July 3,1776. The second day of July, 1776, will be the most... | |
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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. 
