 It is difficult at this day to realize the state of public opinion in relation to that unfortunate race, which prevailed in the civilized and enlightened portions of the world at the time of the Declaration of Independence, and when the Constitution of...  Compilation of Senate Election Cases from 1789 to 1885 - Pàgina 207per United States. Congress. Senate, George S. Taft, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Privileges and Elections - 1885 - 654 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio) - 1936 - 518 pàgines
...of public opinion respecting that unfortunate slave class with the civilized and enlightened portion of the world at the time of the Declaration of Independence and the adoption of the Constitution; but history shows they have, for more than a century been regarded... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1949 - 358 pàgines
...Very well. Senator DONNELL. It appears in 19 Howard, local citation 407 : It is difficult at this date to realize the state of public opinion in relation...race, which prevailed in the civilized and enlightened porttons of the world at the time of the Declaration of Independence, and when the Constitution of... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 696 pàgines
...in the general words used in that memorable instrument. " It is difficult at this day to realize tho state of public opinion in relation to that unfortunate race, which prevailed in tho civilized and enlightened portions of the world at the time of the Declaration of Independence,... | |
 | Mathew H. Ahmann - 1969 - 164 pàgines
...Justice Taney said, in the tragic case of Dred Scott v. Sanford:5 It is difficult at this day [1857] to realize the state of public opinion in relation to that unfortunate [Negro] race, which prevailed in the civilized and enlightened portions of the world at the time of... | |
 | Betsy Levin, Willis D. Hawley - 1977 - 460 pàgines
...a diversity of citizenship action in a federal court, the Chief Justice displayed great interest in "the state of public opinion in relation to that unfortunate...and enlightened portions of the world at the time . . . when the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted."16 The factual context within... | |
 | A. Leon Higginbotham - 1980 - 548 pàgines
...the Declaration of Independence, Chief Justice Roger Taney, speaking for the majority, wrote: [A]t the time of the Declaration of Independence, and when...Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted . . . [blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.11 In effect, Taney had not answered... | |
 | Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1981 - 340 pàgines
...reasons were the same, and so Taney 's argument repeated itself. "It is difficult at this day," he wrote, "to realize the state of public opinion in relation...Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted." They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 946 pàgines
...doubtless, did act, by their suffrages, upon the question of its adoption." Again, Chief Justice Taney says: "It is difficult, at this day to realize the state...Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted." And again, after quoting from the Declaration, he says: "The general words above quoted would seem... | |
 | Howard Brotz - 2011 - 641 pàgines
...mankind, to which they appealed, they would have deserved and received universal rebuke and reprobation. "It is difficult, at this day, to realize the state of public opinion respecting that unfortunate class with the civilized and enlightened portion of the world at the time... | |
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