 Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of HEAVEN on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national...  History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue - Page 671859 - 280 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas C. Thornton - Slavery - 1841 - 358 pages
...he deprecated the idea that South Carolina and Georgia should be at liberty to import, and remarks, 'that some of our eastern brethren had, from a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic.' Gen. Pinckney treated the question as being, whether South Carolina should be excluded from the union.... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - History - 1849 - 632 pages
...petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of Heaven on a country. By an inevitable chain of causes 1787. and effects, Providence punishes national sins by...calamities. He lamented that 'some of our eastern brethren, from a lust of gain, have embarked in this nefarious traffic. As to the states being in possession... | |
 | Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - History - 1854 - 890 pages
...nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next •world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." * * * * " He held it essential, in every point of view, that the general government should hav« power to prevent... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1855 - 1032 pages
...judgment of Heaven on a country. He lamented that some of our eastern brethren, from a lust of gain, had embarked in this nefarious traffic. As to the states being in possession of the right to import, that was the case of many other rights now to be given up. He held it essential, in every point of... | |
 | James Watson Webb - Campaign literature - 1856 - 112 pages
...As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." Now, what said Henry Clay, of Kentucky, himself a Slave-holder, as was Washington, and Jefferson, and... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1858 - 636 pages
...As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, tiiey must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects. Providence punishes national...He lamented that some of our eastern brethren had, as from a lust ol'gain, embarked in the nefarious traffic. As to the States being in possession of... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1858 - 638 pages
...As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects. Providence punishes national...calamities. He lamented that some of our eastern brethren bad, as from a lust of gain, embarked in the nefarious traffic. As to the States being in possession... | |
 | W. O. Blake - Slave trade - 1857 - 934 pages
...judgment of heaven on a country. He lamented that some of our eastern brethren, from a lust of gain, had embarked in this nefarious traffic. As to the states being in possession of the right to import, that was the case of many other rights now to be given up. He held it essential, in every point of... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1861 - 514 pages
...As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national...case with many other rights, now to be properly given np. He held it essential, in every point of view, that the general government should have power to... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1861 - 686 pages
...As nations' cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national...states being in possession of the right to import, tin's was the case with many other rights, now to be properly given up. He held it essential, in every... | |
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