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" He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable... "
Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late ... - Page 20
by Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 464 pages
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The African Repository, Volume 12

African Americans - 1836 - 406 pages
...was considered to be of paramount importance : " 'He (the King of Great Britain,) has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred...liberty in the persons of a distant people who never oflended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable...
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The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States ..., Volume 1

George Tucker - Presidents - 1837 - 588 pages
...and confiscation of our property. He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating- itt most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons...miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, ig the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great...
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The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States ..., Volume 1

George Tucker - Presidents - 1837 - 636 pages
...of forfeiture and confiscation of our property. He has waged cruel war against human nature ittelf, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty...distant people who never offended him, captivating and currying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 66

English literature - 1838 - 564 pages
...if not from repentance for the crimes of the traffic in human flesh : — ' He has waged ' cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred...miserable death in their ' transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium ' of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great...
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Encyclopędia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 11

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 626 pages
...in his draft of the Declaration of Independence, said, "He (the king of England) has waged civil war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred...miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 66

1838 - 556 pages
...if not from repentance for the crimes of the traffic in human flesh : — ' He has waged ' cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred...and liberty in the persons of a distant people, who 1 never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery ' in another hemisphere, or to incur...
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The Power of Congress Over the District of Columbia

Theodore Dwight Weld - Enslaved persons - 1838 - 66 pages
...Declaration, as it came from the hand of Jefferson, it is alleged that Great Britain had " waged a cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred...life and liberty in the persons of a distant people, carrying them into slavery, * * determined to keep up a market where MEN should be bought and sold,"—thus...
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A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence: And ..., Volume 2

L. Carroll Judson - United States - 1839 - 376 pages
...which related to the slave trade, was entirely erased. It was as follows: • "He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred...miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of a christian' king of Great Britain....
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A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2

Frederick Marryat - Canada - 1839 - 270 pages
...war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of lijc and liberty, in the person of a distant people who never offended him ; captivating...miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the approbrium of infidel powers, is the\varfare of the Christian king of Great...
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A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 3

Frederick Marryat - Canada - 1839 - 328 pages
...England, the Declaration continued, in Jefferson's nervous style : " He [the king] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty, in the person of a distant people who never offended him ; captivating and carrying them into slavery, in...
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