 ... there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not...  The Congressional Globe - Page 71by United States. Congress - 1858Full view - About this book
 | John Codman Hurd - 1858 - 694 pages
...vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a claw you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement. It constitutes...South, she found a race adapted to that purpose to her haud. A race inferior to her own, but eminently qualified in temper, in vigor, in docility, in capacity... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1859 - 360 pages
...docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement. It constitutes...South, she found a race adapted to that purpose to her hand—a race inferior to her own, but eminently qualified, in temper, in vigor, in docility, in capacity,... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 572 pages
...and but little skill. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement. It constitutes...either the one or the other except on this mud-sill. — Speech of Senator Hammond, March 4, 1858. It is time that Virginia was turning her attention to... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 570 pages
...would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement. It constitntes the very mud-sill of society and of political government...either the one or the other except on this mud-sill. — Speech of Senator Hammond, March 4, 1S5S. It is time that Virginia was turning her attention to... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 578 pages
...and but little skill. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement. It constitutes...well attempt to build a house in the air, as to build cither the one or the other except on this mud-sill. — Speech of Senator Hammond, March 4, 1S5S.... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1860 - 568 pages
...civilization, and refinement. It constitutes the very mud-all of society and of political government ; and yon might as well attempt to build a house in the air,...to build either the one or the other except on this mud-till. — £/xecA of Senator Hammond, March 4, 1S5S. It is time that Virginia was turning her attention... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1865 - 558 pages
...docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement. It constitutes...either the one or the other, except on this mud-sill. "'The poor ye always have with you"; for the man who lives by daily labor, and scarcely lives at that,... | |
 | 1865 - 866 pages
...that other class which leads progress, refinement, and civilization. It constitutes the very mudsills of society and of political government; and you might...as to build either the one or the other except on the mudsills. Fortunately for the South, she found a race adapted to thut purpose to her hand ; a race... | |
 | 1865 - 870 pages
...that other class which leads progress, refinement, and civilization. It constitutes the very mudsills of society and of political government ; and you might...well attempt to build a house in the air, as to build cither the one or the other except on the mudsills. Fortunately for the South, she found a race adapted... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 666 pages
...the laboring classes as the " very mudsills of society and political government," and assert that " you might as well attempt to build a house in the air, as to build either one or the other except on the mudsills." " But," it may be objected, " even if Mr. Lincoln has given... | |
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