...circumstance should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which Slavery in this country may be abolished by law." Said Jefferson in his Notes on Virginia : " The whole commerce between master and slave is a continual...

...circumstance should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which Slavery in this country may be abolished by law." Surely such language, in the eyes of a ProSlavery jury, would be considered as " calculated " to render...

...the same great question. In 1786, George Washington wrote to John F. Mercer: "It is among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law;" and by his will he emancipated his own negroes. Thomas Jefferson says, in his Notes on Virginia, "The...

...Washington speak for them. 'It is among my first wishes,' he said, in a letter to John Fenton Mercer, ' to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.'1 And in his will, penned with his own hand, in the last year of his life, he bore his testimony...

...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery,...country, may be abolished by law." In a letter to Robert Morris, dated Mount Vernon, April 12, 1786, he says :— " I can only say that there is not...

...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase ; it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." In another letter he says : " I hope it will not be conceived from these observations," (with respect...

...should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among myjirsl wishes to sec some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law." In a letter to Robert Morr.-s, dated Mount Vernon, April 12, 1786, he says :— " I can only say that there is not...

...illustrious Virginians, who, in the language of the great chief himself, declared it among their "first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law." The words embraced within this quotation were used by Washington, in a letter to John F. Mercer, dated...

...illustrious Virginians, who, in the language of the great chief himself, declared it among their "first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law." The words embraced within this quotation were used by Washington, in a letter to John F. Mercer, dated...

...Virginians, who, in the language of the great chief himself, declared it among their "first uishns to sec some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law." The words embraced within this quotation were used by Washington, in a letter to John F. Mercer, dated...