...could not live together as equals. " Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate," he said, " than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, can not live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion, have drawn indelible lines of distinction...

...prophecy of Mr. Jefferson and shuddered at the possible horrors that might attend its fulfilment: " Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate...free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power to...

...The way, I hope, is preparing under the auspices of Heaven, for a total emancipation:"—and again: "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of...equally free, cannot live in the same government." The first article of this prediction has been fulfilled; the second is worthy of the attention of statesmen...

...inevitable, and a little later he writes to a friend: "The day is not distant when it must be adopted, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written...book of fate, than that these people are to be free." On the first of June, 1779, Jefferson became governor of Virginia, but his administration was not very...

...out. The author of the Declaration of Independence wrote, it is said, in 1782, this prediction : " Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these neople are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the...

...continues Jefferson, writing in his autobiography in 1821, " the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more...book of fate than that these people are to be free." Haw_jortunate had it been for Virginia could she have been persuadedby by_he£_SQii, wise beyond his...

...more certainly written in the 1юо|с of fate and Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts. Whilst the last than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less members were signing. Franklin, the Nestor of the certain that the two races, equally free, cannot...

...has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest." Three years earlier he had said, " Nothing is more certainly written in the Book of Fate than that this people shall be free." After the freedom had become a fact, James A. Garfield said in the House...

...depths of their hearts, that the negro is inferior to the white in mental capacity. He also felt sure that " the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government." The attempt, he predicted, would " divide Virginians into parties and produce convulsions which would...

...the proposition, nor will it bear it even this day. Yet the day is not far distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more...free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power to...