 Majesty's negative: thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few British corsairs, to the lasting interests of the American States, and to the rights of human nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice.  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 4981872Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Warren Keifer - 1900 - 386 pages
...themselves, yet they had been considerable carriers of them to others." Jefferson said King George preferred the advantage " of a few British corsairs...nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice." ' While it is not true, as has often been claimed, that England is solely responsible for the introduction... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1900 - 494 pages
...prohibition, have hitherto been defeated by his majesty's negative; thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few British corsairs to the lasting interests....human nature deeply wounded by this infamous practice. (From "A Summary View," 1774. F. •I., 440.) SLAVERY. — No person hereafter coming into this country... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...prohibition, have hitherto been defeated by his majesty's negative; thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few British corsairs to the lasting interests...human nature deeply wounded by this infamous practice. (From "A Summary View," 1774. F. I., 440.) SLAVERY. — No person hereafter coming into this country... | |
 | 1900 - 458 pages
...have hitherto been defeated by his Majesty's negative — thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few British corsairs to the lasting interests...nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice." I read this merely to show that, two years before the Declaration of Independence was signed, Mr. Jefferson,... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - 1900 - 278 pages
...hitherto defeated by his Majesty's negative; Thus preferring the immediate advantage of a few African [British] corsairs, to the lasting interests of the...nature deeply wounded by this infamous practice.— Jefferson, Works, vol. I (Ford), p. 440. The convention actually Resolved, We will neither ourselves... | |
 | William Patrick Willey - 1901 - 284 pages
...prohibition, have been hitherto defeated by His Majesty's negative — thus preferring the advantages of a few British corsairs to the lasting interests...nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice." Such was the language of our fathers. Eastern Virginia early and earnestly protested against the injustice... | |
 | James Parton - 1902 - 798 pages
...preferred the advantage of "» few British corsairs, to the lasting interests of the American State* »nd to the rights of human nature deeply wounded by this...slavery, he expressed rather the feeling of his own set, — the educated and high-bred young Whigs of the Southern colonies, than the sentiments of the... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 458 pages
...have hitherto been defeated by his Majesty's negative — thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few British corsairs to the lasting interests...nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice. ' ' I read this merely to show that, two years before the Declaration of Independence was signed, Mr.... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1904 - 478 pages
...hitherto defeated by his Majesty's negative; thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few African corsairs to the lasting interests of the American...nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice. Nay, the single interposition of an interested individual against a law, was scarcely ever known to... | |
 | Israel Perkins Warren - 1874 - 342 pages
...prohibition, have been hitherto defeated by his majesty's negative ; thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few British corsairs to the lasting interests...nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice." * Not only, therefore, on general grounds of political right, but also as specially connected with... | |
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