Virginia Colony Quotes by John Sergeant Wise

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be 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 such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave…

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