 Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.  Fourth of July Orations - Page 701863Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin Grady - Secession - 1899 - 488 pages
...king of Great Britain determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold. He has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative...attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce : and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1899 - 464 pages
...king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative...to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce." This clause was indeed omitted from the Declaration, not because it did not express the sentiments... | |
 | Joseph Warren Keifer - History - 1900 - 386 pages
...transportation thither, . . . determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold ; he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative...to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce." To conciliate Georgia and South Carolina, this part of the indictment was struck out. These colonies... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 376 pages
...grievances, that George the Third, " determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, had prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce."1 Sir, like the English monarch, you may now prostitute your power... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1901 - 544 pages
...occasion as this. That omitted clause — which, as Mr. Jefferson tells us, " was struck out in compliance to South Carolina and Georgia," not without " tenderness,"...legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.1' That memorable clause, omitted for prudential reasons only, has passed into history, and... | |
 | Law - 1902 - 548 pages
...King of Great Britain . Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative...attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 368 pages
...King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative...attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce; and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he id now exciting those... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1903 - 506 pages
...accused him of being " determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative...attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished dye, he is now exciting those... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1903 - 538 pages
...King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative...attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. "And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 1903 - 505 pages
...King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative...attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. "And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those... | |
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