 ... and expense to every community, under surveillance and control ; and not only so, but under direction as an efficient agent to promote the general welfare, and increase the wealth of the community. The history of the world furnishes no institution...  A Journey in the Back Country - Page 387by Frederick Law Olmsted - 1860 - 492 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1850 - 696 pages
...their aggregate of good or evil. I refer to the views which I have before expressed to this society. It is by the existence of slavery, exempting so large a portion of our citizens from the necessity of bodily labor, that we have a greater proportion than any other people, who have leisure... | |
 | Charles Elliott - 1850 - 372 pages
...Harper, of South Carolina, on slavery, in the Southern Literary Messenger, October, 1838, is not correct: "It is by the existence of slavery, exempting so large a portion of our citizens -from the necessity of bodily labor, that we have leisure for intellectual pursuits and the means of attaining... | |
 | None - 1852 - 492 pages
...their aggregate of good or evil. I refer to the views which I have before expressed to this society. It is by the existence of Slavery, exempting so large a portion of our citizens from the necessity of bodily labor, that we have a greater proportion than any other people, who have leisure... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1852 - 576 pages
...their aggregate of good or evil I refer to the views which I have before expressed to this society. It is by the existence of slavery, exempting so large a portion of our citizens from the necessity of bodily labor, that we have a greater proportion than any other people who have leisure... | |
 | J. D. B. De Bow - 1852 - 580 pages
...their aggregate of good or evil. I refer to the views which I have before expressed to this society. It is by the existence of slavery, exempting so large a portion of our citizens from the necessity of bodily labor, that we have a greater proportion than any other people who have leisure... | |
 | 1850 - 706 pages
...their aggregate of good or evil. I refer to the views which I have before expressed to this society. It is by the existence of slavery, exempting so large a portion of our citizens from the necessity of bodily labor, that we have a greater proportion than any other people, who have leisure... | |
 | Ferencz Aurelius Pulszky - 1853 - 362 pages
...acctfunt of the existence of slavery ? We must estimate institutions from their aggregate of good or evil. It is by the existence of slavery, exempting so large a portion of our citizens from the necessity of bodily labor, that we have a greater proportion than any other people who have leisure... | |
 | 1853 - 508 pages
...their aggregate of good or evil. I refer to the views which I have before expressed to this society. It is by the existence of Slavery, exempting so large a portion of our citizens from the necessity of bodily labor, that we have a greater proportion than any other people, who have leisure... | |
 | William Jay - 1853 - 684 pages
...These details will enable you to estimate the impudence of the following plea in behalf of slavery : " It is by the existence of slavery, exempting so large a portion of our citizens from the necessity of bodily labor, that we have leisure for intellectual pursuits, and the means of attaining... | |
 | FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED - 1861 - 408 pages
...under direction as an efficient agent to promote the general welfare and increase the wealth of the community. The history of the world furnishes no institution,...exempting so large a portion of our citizens from labour, that we have leisure for intellectual pursuits." — Governor Hammond in South. Literary Mess.... | |
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