| 1862 - 802 pages
...intended to be included in the general words of that memorable instrument. For more than a century they had been regarded as beings of an inferior order,...white race, either in social or political relations : so far inferior " — these clever magnates go on to say — "that they had no rights which the white... | |
| Electronic journals - 1907 - 684 pages
...nation displays it in a manner too> plain to be mistaken. They had for more than a. century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and...and so far inferior that they had no rights which a white man was bound to respect, and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery... | |
| United States - 1856 - 654 pages
...it in a manner too plain to be mistaken. ' They had for more than a century before been regarded a* beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit...white race, either in social or political relations; arid so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 260 pages
...European nation displays it in a manner too plain to be mistaken. They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and...or political relations ; and so far inferior, that they_had_noj'ight8 which the white, man was bound,. to respect; and that the negro might justly and... | |
| John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 694 pages
...before, [the time of the Declaration of Independence and of the adoption of the Constitution of the US,] been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and...race, either in social or political relations ; and so fur inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect ; and that the negro... | |
| Curtis M. Jacobs - Freed persons - 1860 - 80 pages
...yrant them. "They had for more than a century before the adoption of the United States Constitution been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with tbo white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 896 pages
...century previous to the adoption of the declaration of independence negroes, whether slaves or free, had been regarded as " beings of an inferior order,...inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect;" that consequently such persons were not included among the " people" in the... | |
| American cyclopaedia - 1862 - 878 pages
...century previous to the adoption of the declaration of independence negroes, whether slaves or free, had been regarded as " beings of an inferior order,...inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect;" that consequently each persons were not included among the " people" in the... | |
| John Elliott Cairnes - Slavery - 1862 - 344 pages
...persons were incapable of enjoying this privilege. " Such persons," he said, " had been regarded as unfit to associate with the white race, either in...relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights whirh the white man was bound to respect, and that t/it negro might justly and lawfully be reduced... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 894 pages
...century previous to the adoption of the declaration of independence negroes, whether slaves or free, had been regarded as " beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the wbit« race either in social or political relations : at-i so far inferior that they had no rights... | |
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