 | American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1808 - 622 pages
...during the 2d, 3d and 4th of July. Jefferson, in his Autobiography, says :* " The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms...England were struck out, lest they should give them offense. The clause, too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1820 - 486 pages
...the Friday preceding, and on Monday, referred to a Committee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea, that we had friends in England worth keeping terms...struck out, lest they should give them offence. The debates having taken up the greater parts of the second, third and fourth days of July, were, in the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pages
...the Friday preceding, and on Monday, referred to a Committee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea, that we had friends in England worth keeping terms...struck out, lest they should give them offence. The debates having taken up the greater parts of the second, third and fourth days of July, were, in the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Constitutional history - 1829 - 486 pages
...the Friday preceding, and on Monday, referred to a Committee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea, that we had friends in England worth keeping terms...struck out, lest they should give them offence. The debates having taken up the greater parts of the second, third, and fourth days of July, were, in the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 510 pages
...the Friday preceding, and on Monday, referred to a Committee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea, that we had friends in England worth keeping terms...were struck out, lest they should give them offence. Tne debates having taken up the greater parts of the second, third, and fourth days of July, were,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph - United States - 1829 - 506 pages
...wortrTTceEpillg tet'tns-with^'stiH haunted the minds of many. For this tf,Tiiiiij lltofio piiVjiigft^ft'liirh conveyed censures on the people of England were struck...in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...of the whole. The pusillanimous idea, that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with, Mill haunted the minds of many. For this reason, those...England were struck out, lest they should give them otfence. The debates having taken up the greater parts of the second, third, and fourth days of July,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...he betrays a fact in relation to New England, that is not generally known. " The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms...in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...DICKINSON. In reference to the debates on this occasion, Mr. Jefferson observes-*-" The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many. For mis reason, those passages which conveyed censures on the people of England were struck out, lest they... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 pages
...he betrays a fact in relation to New England, that is not generally known. 'The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms...in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to... | |
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The clause, too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out, in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it... 
