 | United States. Congress - 1859 - 634 Seiten
...Lecompton Constitution — Mr. Wilson. SENATE. requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class...civilization, and refinement. It constitutes the very mud sill of society and of political government; «id you might a.« well attempt to build a house... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1858 - 638 Seiten
...order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which lends progress, civilization, and refinement. It constitutes the very mud-sill of society and of political... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 572 Seiten
...life, — that is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect, and but little skill. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class...either the one or the other except on this mud-sill. — Speech of Senator Hammond, March 4, 1858. It is time that Virginia was turning her attention to... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 578 Seiten
...life, — that is, a class reqniring but a low order of intellect, and but little skill. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class...well attempt to build a house in the air, as to build cither the one or the other except on this mud-sill. — Speech of Senator Hammond, March 4, 1S5S.... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 570 Seiten
...— that is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect, and but little skill. Such a class yon must have, or you would not have that other class...which leads progress, civilization, and refinement. It constitntes the very mud-sill of society and of political government ; and you might as well attempt... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1860 - 568 Seiten
...class requiring but a low order of intellect, and but little skill. Such a dass yon must have, or yon would not have that other class which leads progress,...civilization, and refinement. It constitutes the very mud-all of society and of political government ; and yon might as well attempt to build a house in... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1860 - 570 Seiten
...reqniring bnt a low order of intellect, and bnt little skill. Snch a class yon mnst have, or yon wonld not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement. It constitntes the very mnd-sill of society and of political government ; and yon might as well attempt... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1865 - 558 Seiten
...order of intellect, and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class...either the one or the other, except on this mud-sill. "'The poor ye always have with you"; for the man who lives by daily labor, and scarcely lives at that,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 666 Seiten
...the laboring classes as the " very mudsills of society and political government," and assert that " you might as well attempt to build a house in the air, as to build either one or the other except on the mudsills." " But," it may be objected, " even if Mr. Lincoln has given... | |
 | 1865 - 866 Seiten
...order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, refinement, and civilization. It constitutes the very mudsills of society and of political government;... | |
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In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have,... 
