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" There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism... "
The Literary Panorama and National Register - Page 873
1819
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An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of ..., Volume 3

William Winterbotham - 1795 - 558 pages
...foreigners who came among them, became their merchants, and fuddenly grew rich. There muft, doubtlefs, be an unhappy influence on the manners of the people produced by the exiftence of flavery among them. The whole commerce between matter and flave is a perpetual exercife...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 31

1819 - 654 pages
...no other limit than fear. " There must doubtless " (says Mr Jefferson), " be an unhappy in* fluence on the manners of the people, produced by the existence...commerce between master and slave, is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions ; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading...
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Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 pages
...familiarized to him by habit. There must doubtless be an nnhap. . py influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among...whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous* passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degra-ding...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 97

1825 - 798 pages
...it is evident the same cause must produce the same effects in our colonies. " There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of the people,...whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions ; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading...
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Travels in Canada, and the United States, in 1816 and 1817

Francis Hall - 1818 - 344 pages
...political effects of slavery are pernicious to the citizen, its moral effects are still more i'atal to the man. "There must doubtless," (says Mr. Jefferson,)...commerce between master and slave, is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions ; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading...
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Travels in Canada, and the United States, in 1816 and 1817

Francis Hall - 1818 - 944 pages
...doubt" less," (says Mr. Jefferson,) " be an unhappy " influence on the manners of the people, pro" duced by the existence of slavery among us. •' The whole...commerce between master and " slave, is a perpetual exercise of the most " boisterous passions; the most unremitting des. " potism on the one part, and...
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Travels in Canada, and the United States, in 1816 and 1817

Francis Hall - 1818 - 564 pages
...pernicious to the citizen, its moral effects are still more fatal to the man. " There must doubt" less," (says Mr. Jefferson,) " be an unhappy '' influence on the manners of the people, pro" duced by the existence of slavery among u*. *' The whole commerce between master and " slave,...
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Travels in Canada, and the United States, in 1816 and 1817

Francis Hall - 1819 - 592 pages
...proverb, " those whom the devil finds idle, he " sets about his own work." Dissipation must be always the resource of the unoccupied, and ill-instructed. If..." unhappy influence on the manners of the people, pro" duced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole * " Of the proprietors of slaves, a very...
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Trial of the Rev. Jacob Gruber: Minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church ...

David Martin - 1819 - 124 pages
...Virginia, he thusVrites, — "There must, doubtless, be an unhappy influence on »he manners of our people, produced by the existence of slavery among...whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degraded...
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A Complete History of the United States of America: Embracing the Whole ...

Frederick Butler - 1821 - 474 pages
...nation, familiarized to him by habit. There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people, produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave js a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions ; the most unremitting despotism on the one...
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