 | Theodore Parker - 1878 - 360 pages
...fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may constitutionally interpose your authority to withdraw the citizens of the United States from...human rights which have been so long continued on the unoifending inhabitants of Africa." And in a letter written only seven weeks before his death (dated... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1882 - 532 pages
...United States of America, addressed this message to congress:* "I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose...of our country have long been eager to proscribe." Unanimous legislation followed the words from the president, and as the year 1808 broke upon the United... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1882 - 640 pages
...abolishing the African slave-trade. He said in this connection : " I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose...participation in those violations of human rights which have so long been continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa, and which the morality, the reputation,... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African Americans - 1882 - 1152 pages
...participation in those violations of human rights which have so long been continued on the xmoffending inhabitants of Africa, and which the morality, the reputation, and the best interest of our country have long been eager to proscribe." This portion of the message was referred... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 610 pages
...United States of America, addressed this message to congress : f " I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose...of our country have long been eager to proscribe." Unanimous legislation followed the words from the president, and, as the year 1808 broke upon the United... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1885 - 616 pages
...United States of America, addressed this message to congress : f " I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose...of our country have long been eager to proscribe." Unanimous legislation followed the words from the president, and, as the year 1808 broke upon the United... | |
 | Henry Adams - United States - 1890 - 486 pages
...of removing another serious barrier to perfect harmony : — " I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose...of our country have long been eager to proscribe." Almost ignoring foreign politics, Jefferson recommended Congress to abolish the slave-trade, begin... | |
 | Henry Adams - United States - 1890 - 492 pages
...of removing another serious barrier to perfect harmony : — " I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose...of our country have long been eager to proscribe." Almost ignoring foreign politics, Jefferson recommended Congress to abolish the slave-trade, begin... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 538 pages
...Jefferson, in his annual message to Congress, December, 1806, said : " I congratulate yon, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose...continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa, 1 South Carolina hnd passed a law prohibiting the slave-trade, but afterwards repealed the act. ' History... | |
 | African Americans - 1842 - 472 pages
...Jefferson "congratulated Congress on the approach of the period at .which they might interpose their authority constitutionally, to withdraw the citizens of the United States from all farther participation, in those violations of human rights which had so long continued on the unoffending... | |
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I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally to withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights which have been... 
