 | Charles H. Otken - 1894 - 324 頁
...dwell on the same soil in peace. In 1782 Thomas Jefferson wrote concerning the negroes : " Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than...it less certain that the two races, equally free, can not live in the same country."* Senator JJ Ingalls is thus reported in the Atlanta Constitution,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 頁
...such an event, will be alike disappointed. In the language of Mr. Jefferson, uttered many years ago, " It is still in our power to direct the process of...emancipation and deportation peaceably, and in such slow degrees as that the evil will wear off insensibly, and their places be, pari passu, filled up by free... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 頁
...such an event, will be alike disappointed. In the language of Mr. Jefferson, uttered many years ago, " It is still in our power to direct the process of...emancipation and deportation peaceably, and in such slow degrees as that the evil will wear off insensibly, and their places be, part passu, filled up by free... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 444 頁
...such an event, will be alike disappointed. In the language of Mr. Jefferson, uttered many years ago, "It is still in our power to direct the process of...emancipation and deportation peaceably, and in such slow degrees, as that the evil will wear off insensibly; and their places be, part passu, filled up by free... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 頁
...such an event, will be alike disappointed. In the language of Mr. Jefferson, uttered many years ago, " It is still in our power to direct the process of...emancipation and deportation peaceably, and in such slow degrees, as that the evil will wear off insensibly ; and their places be. pari passu, filled up by... | |
 | Joseph J Ellis - 2001 - 290 頁
...passivity from the revolutionary generation on the most ominous problem facing the new nation. "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people [ie, slaves] are to be free," he announced in his autobiography, written in 1821. But it was equally... | |
 | Robert R. Williams - 2001 - 300 頁
...Washington will see the inspirational words of Jefferson inscribed on its wall, one reading, "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people [the black slaves] are to be free." However, what is not inscribed is Jefferson's next sentence: "Nor... | |
 | Robert Cowley - 2002 - 452 頁
...1860, which greatly aided his presidential campaign, he had quoted Thomas Jefferson as having said: It is still in our power to direct the process of...emancipation and deportation, peaceably, and in such slow degrees, as that the evil will wear off insensibly; and their places be, pari possu, filled up by free... | |
 | Frances E. Ruffin - 2001 - 38 頁
...Jefferson owned slaves, including Sally Hemings, be seemed to be against slavery. He wrote, "Nofh/ng| is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free." Sally Hemings The story of Sally Hemings Is also part of the story of the third president of the United... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 頁
...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other." He held that "nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free." Moved by this lifelong conviction, he had tried unsuccessfully in the Virginia House of Burgesses to... | |
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Nothing is more certainly written in the book of Fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. 
