John Sergeant Wise Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.”

“America is good enough for us.”

“However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.”

“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 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.”

“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 recover it, was very nebulous.”

“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 for the first time.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.”

“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 have private tutors.”