 | Thomas Wallace Knox - Presidents - 1884 - 516 pages
...decided that our Revolutionary fathers in the Declaration of Independence regarded the black men " as so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect," and that "they were never thought or spoken of except as property." He further... | |
 | George S. Taft, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Privileges and Elections - 1885 - 684 pages
...the public history of every European nation displays it in a manner too plain to be mistaken. '"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.... | |
 | Emery E. Childs - United States - 1885 - 268 pages
...beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in moral or political relations ; and so far 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 Spring Merriam - Biography & Autobiography - 1885 - 444 pages
...and the Constitution were adopted, they being regarded at that time, said the chief -justice, " as so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect " ; so that there could have been no intent to include them in the " all men "... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - History - 1887 - 204 pages
...the public history of every European nation displays it in a manner too plain to be mistaken. " 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."... | |
 | Abraham R. Howbert - United States - 1888 - 404 pages
...but such as those who held the power and the government might choose to grant to them;" that "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."... | |
 | Law - 1888 - 448 pages
..."They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and siltogether 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."... | |
 | Robert Thorne - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 538 pages
...race. Among other statements, he said: "They (the Africans) had for more than a century iK'fore lieen regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether...religious service by the Hebrews. To mark the spot where lie communed with <iod, Jacob set up a pillar of stone» and " poured a drink -offering thereon." Among... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1889 - 848 pages
...free, and congress had not authorized their naturalization or enrolled them in the militia. ** 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."... | |
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They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound... 
