 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
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1882 - 532 pages
...rewarded or punished Z Au s 7 - ^ the nex t " vvor ld, they must be in this. By an in22 - evitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities. I lament that some of our eastern brethren have, from a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Clergy - 1883 - 466 pages
...solemn warning, now fearfully justifying itself in the sight of bis descendants, that "by an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." The Virginian romancer pictured the far-off scenes of the conflict which he saw approaching as the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 482 pages
...solemn warning, now fearfully justifying itself in the sight of his descendants, that " by an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." The Virginian romancer pictured the far-off scenes of the conflict which he saw approaching as the... | |
 | Lyon Gardiner Tyler - United States - 1884 - 666 pages
...dishonorable to the American character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution." Col. George Mason lamented "that some of our Eastern brethren had, from a lust of gain, engaged in this nefarious traffic." The effect, he said, of the provision to pass commercial laws by... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 610 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. I lament that some of our eastern brethren have, from a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic.... | |
 | Sydney Howard Gay - 1884 - 380 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." These were warnings worth heeding. But Ellsworth retorted with a sneer : " As he had never owned a... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1885 - 616 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. I lament that some of our eastern brethren have, from a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic.... | |
 | William T. Alexander - African Americans - 1800 - 662 pages
...As Nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world, thoy must be in this, by an inevitable chain of causes and effects. Providence punishes National sins by National calamities." Jefferson in the same year, after detailing the evils of slavery, added, " Indeed, I tremble for my... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Authors, American - 1891 - 454 pages
...solemn warning, now fearfully justifying itself in the sight of his descendants, that " by an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." The Virginian romancer pictured the far-off scenes of the conflict which he saw approaching as the... | |
 | J. G. Evans - 1891 - 284 pages
...of slaves is born a petty tyrant. It brings the judgement of heaven on a country. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." The brutalizing influences of slavery upon Southern society is not a question for debate. It had a... | |
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