 | Literature - 1857 - 528 pages
...liberty, than those to the Northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in our days were the Poles; and such...slaves who are not slaves themselves. In such a people, haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible."... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - Orators - 1857 - 544 pages
...allusion to education in America, in those days, is interesting: " Permit me, sir," continued Mr. Burke, " to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part toward the growth and effect of this untractable spirit — I mean their education. In no country perhaps... | |
 | E. N. Elliott, David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Thornton Stringfellow, Robert Goodloe Harper, James Henry Hammond, Samuel Adolphus Cartwright, Charles Hodge - Citizenship - 1860 - 934 pages
...ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in our days were the Poles; and such will bo all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves....freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." FREE COLORED POPULATION. WHEN the author was carefully collating the facts from the Record of MAJOB... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will he w w<t = r n n n \ v comhines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincihle. Permit me, Sir, to odd... | |
 | James Williams - Campaign literature - 1862 - 538 pages
...all the ancient commonwealths. Such were our Gothic ancestors, and such in our day were the Poles. Such will be all masters of slaves who are not slaves...such a people the haughtiness of domination combines itself with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.' The abolitionists of England,... | |
 | Henry May - Maryland - 1863 - 76 pages
...liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." Sir, the people of. the North are prpfoundly ignorant equally of the nature and characteristics of... | |
 | Eduard Maco Hudson - Slavery - 1868 - 240 pages
...all the ancient commonwealths, such were our Gothic ancestors, and such in our day were the Poles. Such will be all masters of slaves who are not slaves...such a people the haughtiness of domination combines itself with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.' When we reflect that the... | |
 | Reverdy Johnson - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1863 - 764 pages
...Northward. Such were all the ancient Commonwealths ; such were our gotbic ancestors; such, in our days, are the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves who are not slaves themselves." One or two hundred years of tropical life and slave institutions have not ameliorated this combination... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - History - 1867 - 636 pages
...northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our day were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." This description of slaveholders as a class is not strictly accurate; but we are dealing with men who... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - History - 1868 - 702 pages
...all the ancient commonwealths, such were our Gothic aucertors, and such in our day were the Poles ; such will be all masters of slaves who are not slaves...such a people the haughtiness of domination combines itself with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." No stronger evidence of... | |
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The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such,... 
