| Frederick Milnes Edge - Cotton growing - 1860 - 250 pages
...included in the general words used in that memorable instrument. They had, for more than a century, been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and...inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to Slavery for his benefit."... | |
| Curtis M. Jacobs - Freed persons - 1860 - 80 pages
...yrant them. "They had for more than a century before the adoption of the United States Constitution been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with tbo white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights... | |
| George Livermore - African Americans - 1862 - 246 pages
...privileges but such as those who held the power and the Government might choose to grant them. " They had for more than a century before been regarded as...inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect ; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 896 pages
...century previous to the adoption of the declaration of independence negroes, whether slaves or free, had been regarded as " beings of an inferior order, and...inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect;" that consequently such persons were not included among the " people" in the... | |
| American cyclopaedia - 1862 - 878 pages
...century previous to the adoption of the declaration of independence negroes, whether slaves or free, had been regarded as " beings of an inferior order, and...inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect;" that consequently each persons were not included among the " people" in the... | |
| John Elliott Cairnes - Slavery - 1862 - 172 pages
...persons were incapable of enjoying this privilege. " Such persons," he said, " had been regarded as unfit to associate with the white race, either in...inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect, and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit;... | |
| John Elliott Cairnes - Slavery - 1862 - 344 pages
...persons were incapable of enjoying this privilege. " Such persons," he said, " had been regarded as unfit to associate with the white race, either in...relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights whirh the white man was bound to respect, and that t/it negro might justly and lawfully be reduced... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 894 pages
...century previous to the adoption of the declaration of independence negroes, whether slaves or free, had been regarded as " beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the wbit« race either in social or political relations : at-i so far inferior that they had no rights... | |
| Jeremiah Smith - Slavery - 1863 - 506 pages
...Independence, and when the Constitution was formed and adopted," stated, as a historical fact, that, " They had for more than a century before been regarded as...and so far inferior that they had no rights which a white man was bound to respect." The court did not say whether that regarding was correct or incorrect;... | |
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