They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound... The Tribune Almanac - Page 401868Full view - About this book
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1878 - 722 pages
...of the revolution and their progenitors "for more than a century before" regarded the negro race as so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect L, and that they were never spoken of except JAMES BUCHANAN. as property. He also... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1863 - 548 pages
...• • " They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race,...and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold, and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever a profit... | |
| John Thomas Scharf - 1879 - 878 pages
...misrepresentation of a single phrase. In the middle of a sentence of that opinion referring to Africans, he said, 'they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect,' and the gross injustice is done of charging him with entertaining the view which these words, taken by... | |
| James Schouler - United States - 1891 - 564 pages
...Constitution was adopted, negroes had been and were still regarded as beings of an inferior order, "and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." That curdling • 19 Howard's Reports, 393, Justices McLean aud Curtis dissenting.... | |
| Education - 1881 - 796 pages
...regarded [by the civilized and enlightened portions of the world] as being* of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race,...man was bound to respect ; and that the negro might 'ustly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and told, and treated as an... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1881 - 926 pages
...fathers and their progenitors, " for more than a century before," regarded the black race among us as " so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect" and that they " were never thought or spoken of except her following he was elected to that high office, and... | |
| Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...the Declaration of Independence, the negroes had been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race...inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." The greater the truth, the greater the libel. A maxim of the law in vogue at... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 676 pages
...instrument;" that "they had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior race, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race,...and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit;" that he was "bought and sold, and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever... | |
| Edward A. Thomas - Biography - 1883 - 654 pages
...Independence, negroes, whether slave or free, had been regarded " as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race,...inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." Judge Taney died In Washington, DC, October 12, 1864. Ta una 1 1 ¡ 11, Robert,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 840 pages
...; " that " they had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior race, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race,...and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit ; " that he was " bought and sold, and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever... | |
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