 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1820 - 486 pages
...surplus for the payment of taxes, than five hundred slaves. Therefore the state in which are the laborers called freemen, should be taxed no more than that...of the laboring poor in most countries, that of the fishermen particularly of the Northern states, is as abject as that of slaves. It is the number of... | |
 | United States - 1833 - 670 pages
...State could, in the course of one night, be transformed into slaves; would the State be made poorer, or less able to pay taxes? That the condition of the...Northern States, is as abject as that of slaves," ke. Here is the argument (in which there is certainly great force) upon which the southern States were... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pages
...surplus for the payment of taxes, than five hundred slaves. Therefore the state in which are the laborers called freemen, should be taxed no more than that...of the laboring poor in most countries, that of the fishermen particularly of the Northern states, is as abject as that of slaves. It is the number of... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph - United States - 1829 - 506 pages
...which are those called slaves. Suppose, by an extraordinary operation of nature or of law, one half-the laborers of a state could in the course of one night...of the laboring poor in most countries, that of the fishermen particularly of the Northern states, is as abject as that of slaves. It is the number of... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Constitutional history - 1829 - 486 pages
...able to pay taxes ? That the condition of the labouring poor in most countries, that of the fishermen particularly of the Northern states, is as abject as that of slaves. It is the number of labourers which produces the surplus for taxation, and numbers, therefore, indiscriminately, are the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...able to pay taxes ? That the condition of the labouring poor in most countries, that of the fishermen particularly of the Northern states, is as abject as that of slaves. It is the number of labourers which produces the surplus for taxation, and numbers, therefore, indiscriminately, are the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 510 pages
...of the labouring poor in most countries, that of the fishermen particularly of the Northern slates, is as abject as that of slaves. It is the number of labourers which produces the surplus for taxation, and numbers, therefore, indiscriminately, are the... | |
 | 1845 - 778 pages
...could, in the course of one night, be transformed into slaves, would the State be made the poorer or less able to pay taxes ? That the condition of the...which produces the surplus for taxation, and numbers indiscriminately, therefore, are the fair index of wealth." When these observations were made, it had... | |
 | William Linn - Presidents - 1834 - 284 pages
...to pay taxes? — That the condition of the labouring poor in most countries, that of the fishermen, particularly of the northern states, is as abject as that of slaves. It is the number of labourers which produces the surplus for taxation, and numbers, therefore, indiscriminately, are the... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Constitutional history - 1840 - 740 pages
...called freemen, should be taxed no more than that in which are those called slaves. Suppose, by any extraordinary operation of nature or of law, one half...the laboring poor in most countries, — that of the fishermen, particularly, of the Northern States, — is as abject as that of slaves. It is the number... | |
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That the condition of the laboring poor in most countries, that of the fishermen particularly of the Northern states, is as abject as that of slaves. It is the number of laborers which produces the surplus for taxation, and numbers, therefore, indiscriminately,... 
