 The real question, as seen in the States afflicted with this unfortunate population, is, are our slaves to be presented with freedom and a dagger ? For if Congress has the power to regulate the conditions of the inhabitants of the States, within the States,...  Michigan History Magazine - Page 941927Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1905 - 1044 pages
...to be presented with freedom and a dagger? For if Congress has the power to regulate the conditions of the inhabitants of the States, within the States,...war? That remains to be seen; but not, I hope, by you or me. Surely, they will parley awhile, and give us time to get out of the way. What a Bedlamite is... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1905 - 604 pages
...to be presented with freedom and a dagger? For if Congress has the power to regulate the conditions of the inhabitants of the States, within the States,...That remains to be seen ; but not, I hope, by you or me. Surely, they will parley awhile, and give us time to get out of the way. What a Bedlamite is... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 1999 - 676 pages
...to be presented with freedom and a dagger? For if Congress has the power to regulate the conditions of the inhabitants of the States, within the States,...war? That remains to be seen; but not, I hope, by you or me. Surely, they will parley awhile, and give us time to get out of the way. What a Bedlamite is... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 2003 - 276 pages
...to be presented with freedom and a dagger? For if Congress has the power to regulate the conditions of the inhabitants of the states, within the states,...of that power, to declare that all shall be free. January 6,1821 In his Autobiography, Jefferson returned to his attempt to emancipate the slaves of... | |
 | Will Morrisey - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 294 pages
...Washington, the destruction of local self-rule. "For if Congress has the power to regulate the conditions of the inhabitants of the States, within the States,...confederacies? To wage another Peloponnesian war to settle the ascendancy between them? Or is this the tocsin of merely a servile war?" Jefferson went so tar as to... | |
 | Erik S. Root - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 268 pages
...was allowed to exist. Constitutionally speaking, "if Congress has a power to regulate the conditions of the inhabitants of the states, within the states,...exercise of that power to declare that all shall be free."20 Madison's problem with the Talamadge amendments is that, if passed, it fomented lawlessness... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1853 - 1016 pages
...freedom aud a dngger ? lor if Congress has the power to regulate the condition of the inhabitants of States, it will be but another exercise of that power to declare that all shall be free." 3 And this heresy so denounced by Jefferson, is the precise doctrine to-day, of Mr. Seward's •' irrepressible... | |
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