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
| William Patrick Willey - West Virginia - 1901 - 284 pages
...of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of Heaven on a country. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national...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... | |
| Granville Davisson Hall - Regionalism - 1901 - 644 pages
...of slaves Is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a country. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities. Prophetic words, soon realized after Virginia and South Carolina undertook to propagate the new gospel... | |
| Granville Davisson Hall - 1902 - 972 pages
...of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a country. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities. Prophetic words, soon realized after Virginia and South Carolina undertook to propagate the new gospel... | |
| Gaillard Hunt - Biography & Autobiography - 1902 - 608 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...lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic. "* Edmund Randolph wrote to Madison in 1789 that he desired to go to Philadelphia to practise law.... | |
| William H. Snowden - Alexandria (Va.) - 1902 - 138 pages
...As nations can not be rewarded nor 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 regret that some of our Eastern brethern have from a love of gain embarked in this nefarious traffic.... | |
| Republican Club of the City of New York - Lincoln Day - 1902 - 88 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." It was another Virginian, Thomas Jefferson, who later said of slavery: "Indeed, I tremble for my country... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1904 - 530 pages
...substance." Declaring then in the strongest terms his opposition to slavery, he concluded by stating that "he lamented that some of our Eastern brethren had,...lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic." Luther Martin, of Maryland, declared the slave trade "to be inconsistent with the principles of the... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - History - 1903 - 505 pages
...substance." Declaring then in the strongest terms his opposition to slavery, he concluded by stating that "he lamented that some of our Eastern brethren had,...lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic." Luther Martin, of Maryland, declared the slave trade "to be inconsistent with the principles of the... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1903 - 538 pages
...substance." Declaring then in the strongest terms his opposition to slavery, he concluded by stating that "he lamented that some of our Eastern brethren had,...lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic." Luther Martin, of Maryland, declared the slave trade "to be inconsistent with the principles of the... | |
| Frederick Law Olmsted - Slavery - 1904 - 474 pages
...636. * Ibid., 494. petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a. country. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects Providence punishes national...calamities. He lamented that some of our eastern brethren, from a lust of gain, have embarked in this nefarious traffic. As to the State being in the possession... | |
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