John Sergeant Wise Quotes

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• My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.
• As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.
• Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.
• THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
• However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.
• John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
• Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of…
• In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.
• In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President…
• And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good…
• The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign…
• In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not…
• This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery…
• Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did…
• I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where…
• In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year…
• When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.
• America is good enough for us.
• It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to…
• Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their…

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