| Periodicals - 1851 - 724 pages
...Thomas Jefferson, the following was among the grievances enumerated : " lie (the King of Great Britain) has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating...persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating them and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death... | |
| Horace Mann - Slavery - 1851 - 592 pages
...prepared by Mr. Jefferson, this crime of King George the Third is set forth in the following words: — " He has waged cruel war against human nature itself,...liberty in the persons of a distant people who never oflended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur a miserable... | |
| Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 618 pages
...Jefferson, in his draft of the Declaration of Independence, said, " He (the king of England) has waged civil war against human nature itself, violating its most...persons of a distant people, who never offended him; captivating, and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 624 pages
...of the Declaration of [ndepeiideiice, said, " He (the king of England) ha» waged civil war agaiust human nature Itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty, in the persons of a distant ]>eople, who never otfended him ; captivating, and carrying them into slavery in another hémisphère,... | |
| 1851 - 1220 pages
...Jefferson, the following was among the grievances enumerated : " He (the King of Great Britain) hjw^ wagi'd cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of lit' i and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating them and... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1858 - 586 pages
...the following nervous passage occurs among the charges there made against the king : " He has urged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its...another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of... | |
| William Goodell - History - 1852 - 810 pages
...of Independence, by Mr. Jefferson, this charge against the King of Great Britain is thus stated : " He has waged cruel war against human nature itself,...persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 876 pages
...it as one of the moving causes for throwing off our allegiance to the British monarch, that " he had waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating...persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 804 pages
...it as one of the moving causes for throwing off our allegiance to the British monarch, that " he had waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating...persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - United States - 1852 - 414 pages
...it as one of the moving causes for throwing off our allegiance to the British monarch, that " he had waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating...persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their... | |
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