...compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase ; it being among the first wishes of my heart to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." Jefferson, writing from Paris in 1788, said, "We must wait with patience the workings of an overruling...

...circumstance should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my firstwishes 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 ^ a continual...

...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." And eleven years afterwards, in August, 1797, he writes to his nephew, Lawrence Lewis, in a letter...

...— that he said to John F. Mercer, in a letter dated September 9, 1786, that it was among his first wishes to see some plan adopted by which Slavery in this country may be abolished by law, — that he said to Sir John Sinclair, in a letter dated December 11, 1796, that Maryland and Virginia...

...Washington speak for them. " It is among my first wishes," he said, in a letter to John F. Mercer, " to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law."2 And in his will, penned with his own hand, during the last year of his life, he bore his testimony...

...Washington speak for them. " It is among my first wishes," he said, in a letter to John F. Mercer, " to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may lie abolished by law."2 And in his will, penned with his own hand, during the last year of his life,...

...existing state of things among us. Let them bear in mind that he declared it to be " among his first wishes to see some plan adopted by which Slavery in this country may be abolished by law," — that, to promote this purpose, ho expressed a desire, in a recorded interview with a distinguished...

...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. To JOHN F. MERCER, September 9, 1786. 9 Sparks, 159. 20. HE AGAIN INVITES MADAME DE LAFAYETTE. i| ADAM,...

...before the formation of the National Constitution, he declared, by letter, that it was "among his first wishes to see some plan adopted by which Slavery in this country might be abolished by law " ; 1 and again, in another letter, that, in support of any legislative measure...

...Jefferson has already been quoted. General Washington declared it " among my first wishes to see some pbm adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." Patrick Henry thought that "we ought to lament and deplore the necessity of holding our fellow man...