 | William Dunlap - American fiction - 1837 - 512 pages
...nothing Can touch them further." — Shakspenre. " I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes Ip see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — WaMngton.... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 454 pages
...Washington also wrote to John F. Mercer as follows : " I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by...by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished bylaw. - "—Letter to John F. Mercer. These were the sentiments of the father of his-country on this... | |
 | African Americans - 1838 - 400 pages
...September 9, 1786, h« says : " I nevei inean, unless some particular circumstance should compel we to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being...which slavery in this country may be abolished by law."f The following extract is from a letter to the Marquis de Lafayett«, dated 10f May, 17S6: The... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Weld - Enslaved persons - 1838 - 66 pages
...by legislative authority." In a letter to John Fenton Mercer, dated Sept. 9, 1786, he says : " It is among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by...slavery in this country may be abolished by law." In a letter to Sir John Sinclair, he says : " There are in Pennsylvania, laws for the gradual abolition... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 576 pages
...Mercer on this subject, General Washington said ; " I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by...slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — September 9th, 1786. I will make no apology for writing to you on this subject, for, if Mr. Dalby... | |
 | Robert Everett - Congregational churches - 1892 - 834 pages
...1786, dywedodd eiriau fel y rhai eydd yn canlyu: "I never mean, nnleea some particular circumstances compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase,...some plan adopted by which slavery in this country тьу be abolished by law." Dy wediadun yn brofion о galon yn oael ei ahyuhyrfu gan wirionedd, yn... | |
 | United States - 1843 - 708 pages
...as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting." To Mr. John F. Mercer, September 9, 1786, he says, "I never mean, unless some particular circumstance...slavery in this country may be abolished by law." Again, in writing to the Marquis de La Fayette, 10th of May, 1786, he confirms the above sentiments... | |
 | United States - 1843 - 678 pages
...as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting." To Mr. John F. Mercer, September 9, 1786, he says, "I never mean, unless some particular circumstance...should compel me to it, to possess another slave by parchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country... | |
 | Slavery - 1843 - 404 pages
...particular eireumstance should compe' me to it, to possess another slave by purehase; it bang among my firs wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may b abolished by law. — Letter to John F. Mereer. Because there are, in Pennsylvania, laws for the... | |
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I never mean, unless some particular circumstance 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. 
