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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAccomac acres amount Assembly brick British State Papers Brown's Genesis Captain cargo charge clothing Colony commodities Company of London court Dutch Elizabeth City County England erected five Force's Historical Tracts Governor and Council Hening's Statutes Henrico County Holland hundred pounds Ibid imported indenture Indian instance instructions inventory Jamestown labor Lancaster County land Letters of William Library linen Lower Norfolk County manufacture master McDonald Papers Middlesex County money sterling mother country negroes Northampton County obtained original vol owner pair patent pence period plantation planters pounds of tobacco pounds sterling purchased quantity Rappahannock County Records of Elizabeth Records of Henrico Records of Lancaster Records of Lower Records of Middlesex Records of Rappahannock Records of York residence Sainsbury Abstracts servant seventeenth century shillings ship silver slaves supplies Thomas thousand pounds tion town trade vessel Virginia Company William Byrd William Fitzhugh York County Popular passagesPage 568 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies, which in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. Page 568 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, among them, like something that is more noble and liberal. Page 568 - 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 in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible. Page 243 - ... at each plantation, most of them this country born, the remainder as likely as most in Virginia, there being twenty-nine in all, with stocks of cattle and hogs at each quarter. Page 568 - Colonies, which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is, that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Page 649 - This work will be invaluable . . . to the American citizen who wishes something more than a superficial knowledge of the political system under which he lives and of the differences between it and those of other countries. . . . The fact is that no writer has ever attempted to present so comprehensive an account of our political system, founded upon such length of observation, enriched with so great a mass of detail, and so thoroughly practical in its character. . . . We have here a storehouse of... Page 568 - ... misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, sir, to commend the superior morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it, but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so, and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with an higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Page 243 - Aple trees most grafted, well fenced with a Locust fence, which is as durable as most brick walls, a Garden, a hundred foot square, well... Page 650 - It is a marvel of condensation and lucidity. In no other book is the same field covered so succinctly and so well. Of the five chapters, the first deals with the Colonial epoch, the second with the Revolutionary period, the third and fourth review the history of the Federal Government to the outbreak of the Civil War, and the fifth depicts the era of rupture and reconstruction. Page 243 - Tob° with the crops and good debts lying out of about 25ooooth besides sufficient of almost all sorts of goods, to supply the familys & the Quarter's occasion for two if not three years. Thus I have given you some particulars... 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