 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 pages
...of the worst evil that afflicts the southern part of our confederacy ? Disguise the truth as we may, and throw the blame where we will, it is slavery which...of improvement. It stifles industry and represses enterprize ; it is fatal to economy and prudence ; it discourages skill ; impairs our strength as a... | |
 | 1833 - 404 pages
...morbid «ensitiveness which gives warning even of an approach to it. Disguise the truth as we may, and throw the blame where we will, it is slavery which, more thu mny other cause, keeps us back in the career of improvement. It stifles industry and represses... | |
 | Isaac William Stuart - 1836 - 234 pages
...a morbid sensitiveness which gives warning even of an approach to it. Disguise the truth as we may, and throw the blame where we will, it is Slavery which,...of improvement. It stifles industry and represses enterprise—it is fatal to economy and providence— it discourages skill—impairs our strength as... | |
 | Frederick Freeman - 1836 - 380 pages
...the worst evil that afflicts the southern part of our confederacy. * * Disguise the truth as we may, and throw the blame where we will, it is slavery which,...cause, keeps us back in the career of improvement." * * " How this evil is to be encountered, how subdued, is indeed a difficult a:id delicate inquiry."... | |
 | 1837 - 396 pages
...a morbid sensitiveness which gives warning even of an approach to it. Disguise the truth as we may, and throw the blame where we will, it is Slavery which,...of improvement. It stifles industry and represses enterprize — it is fatal to economy and providence — it discourages skill — impairs our strength... | |
 | Frederick Freeman - 1837 - 364 pages
...the worst evil that afflicts the southern part of our confederacy. * * Disguise the truth as we may, and throw the blame where we will, it is slavery which,...cause, keeps us back in the career of improvement." * * " How this evil is to be encountered, how subdued, is indeed a difficult and delicate inquiry."... | |
 | 1899 - 342 pages
...Justice Gaston, who two years earlier had said in a public address: "Disguise the truth as we may, and throw the blame where we will, it is slavery which,...than any other cause, keeps us back in the career of improvement."1 Now he showed himself a humane judge: He said: "Unconditional submission is, in general,... | |
 | Duke University. Trinity College Historical Society - 1919 - 518 pages
...before the case was brought to the Court, Justice Gaston had said: "Disguise the truth as you may, and throw the blame where we will, it is slavery which,...than any other cause, keeps us back in the career of improvement."10 He was of the Catholic faith, yet he was " Address before the Dialectic and Philanthropic... | |
 | Joseph Herman Schauinger - 1949 - 270 pages
...morbid sensitiveness which gives warning to even an approach to it. ... Disguise the truth as we may and throw the blame where we will, it is slavery which,...the career of improvement. It stifles industry and suppresses enterprise; it is fatal to economy and prudence; it discourages skill, impairs our strength... | |
 | Colleen McDannell - 2001 - 492 pages
...representation in state and national legislatures. He also owned slaves. He did, however, believe that slavery, "more than any other cause, keeps us back in the career of improvement." He helped North Carolina's Quakers manumit their slaves and, in a celebrated decision during his career... | |
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Disguise the truth as we may, and throw the blame where we will, it is Slavery which, more than any other cause, keeps us back in the career of improvement. 