 | Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...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...as in countries where it is a common blessing, and os broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part 120 of the world, those who are free are by far the most...as in countries where it is a common blessing, and its broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject 125 toil, with great misery, with... | |
 | Connecticut. Board of Education - 1882 - 308 pages
...Slavery sparsified our population, created a kind of aristocracy, among whom, as Burke said, "freedom was to them not only an enjoyment but a kind of rank and privilege." Slave-owners held baronial estates, were surrounded by a host of menial dependents, lived luxuriously,... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...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...there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a ommon blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great... | |
 | New England - 1894 - 808 pages
...Conciliation with America he said : " In Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. When this is the case in any part of the world, those who...enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing, then, that freedom as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air,... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 340 pages
...in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude j/of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the...by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Free; dom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part 120 of the world, those who are free are by far the most...jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an en joyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1887 - 686 pages
...Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part «o of the world, those who are free are by far the most...is a common blessing, and as broad and general as ihe air, may be united with much abject i25 toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude,... | |
 | Judson Stuart Landon - Constitutional history - 1889 - 796 pages
...of Virginia and the Carolinas. Said Mr. Burke in the English Parliament : " They have a vast number of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the...by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. These people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit,... | |
 | William Williams (B. A.) - English language - 1890 - 360 pages
...advantage over another. 7. Unless this measure is clearly constitutional, I shall not vote for it. 8. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those...by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. 10. When he talked, he clothed his wit and his sense in forcible and natural expressions. 11. It was... | |
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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. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas,... 
