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John Sergeant Wise Quotes
When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.
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John Sergeant Wise
Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them.
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John Sergeant Wise
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 interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.
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John Sergeant Wise
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 was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.
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John Sergeant Wise
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 of Charles the First.
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John Sergeant Wise
THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
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John Sergeant Wise
The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.
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John Sergeant Wise
That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President.
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John Sergeant Wise
Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.
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John Sergeant Wise
My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.
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John Sergeant Wise
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