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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), New England forced slavery. (search)
ween convictions was the pitiless logic of a line. Right and wrong were geographical. My friend, as I esteem it a privilege to call him, Major John W. Daniel, in an address at the University of Virginia, quotes Mr. Hoar, late senator from Massachusetts as saying of Jefferson, he stands in human history as the foremost man of all whose influence has led men to govern themselves by spiritual laws. Of all emancipationists, Jefferson was by far the greatest. As early as 1778 he sought to begireason against human hope will signalize their epoch in future history. To LaFayette he wrote: It is not a moral question, but one merely of power * * * to raise a geographical principle for the choice of a president. To Mr. Holmes (then of Massachusetts), he wrote these prophetic words: A geographical line conciding with a marked principle, moral or political, will never be obliterated, and every new irratation will mark it deeper and deeper. Thank God, he wrote to John Adams, I shall not l
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Constitution and the Constitution. (search)
benevolent intent. In the general laws of Massachusetts (compiled in accordance with a resolution ber of contrabands from Fortress Monroe to Massachusetts. To this Governor Andrew replied: I do nopon a jury; none trained in the militia of Massachusetts. Why should the negro be ambitious to die for Massachusetts? The war governor proceeds: Contemplating, however, the possibility of such remy men, he said they were better treated in Massachusetts than in the West, and, turning to William tariff burdens were still further reduced; Massachusetts voting with Virginia to this end. The leadavery at University. Dr. A. B. Mayo, of Massachusetts, in the report of the bureau of education ilies. These are the men, said Wilson, of Massachusetts, of the freedmen after the war, who have bm chattelhood to manhood. Yes, but it was Massachusetts which sold them into chattelhood by the po of egotism, might answer Here, McCall, of Massachusetts, is reported to have said, The nation is a