...none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? But let us interrupt awhile this dream of conquest, settlement, and supremacy. Let us remember, that...

...none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? But let us interrupt awhile this dream of conquest, settlement, and supremacy. Let us remember, that...

...which I with all deference thought that he discovered " a zeal without knowledge." U|X>n one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was, " Here's lo the next insurrection of the negroes in tin; West Indies." His violent prejudice against our West...

...some very grave men in OUR university (as the late Cyril Jackson loved to talk) gave as a toast—' Here's to the next insurrection of the Negroes in the West Indies.' — Edwards refers to this anecdote ; and asserts, that Johnson frequently repeated the toast before...

...which I with all deference thought that he discovered " a zeal without knowledge." Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford,...negroes?" and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkes 1 he asked, " Where did Beckford and Trecothick learn English ?" That Trecothick could both speak and...

...which I with all deference thought that he discovered " a zeal without knowledge." Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford,...His violent prejudice against our West Indian and Ame• rican settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation...

...which I with all deference thought that he discovered " a zeal without knowledge." Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford,...Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelpi for liberty among the drivers of negroes? " and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkesa he asked,...

...the chains of their slave. To him at least could never be applied Dr. Johnson's taunting words : " How is it " that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among " the drivers of negroes ? " The views of Washington on this great question are best shown at the close of the Revolutionary...

...essential element in a free government?" It is true that Dr. Johnson, with keenest irony, exclaims, " How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes !" It is true also that the celebrated Burke declared, " that masters would, even more than other men,...

...very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how comes it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" These few extracts from this celebrated pamphlet may give you some idea of the comprehensiveness of...