 | American Anti-Slavery Society - 1839 - 236 Seiten
...lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, GIVES LOOSE TO THE WORST OF PASSIONS ; and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities." Hon. LEWIS SUMMERS, Judge of the General Court of Virginia, and a... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1839 - 464 Seiten
...lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to the worst of passions ; and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his morals and manners undepraved... | |
 | Executive Committee of the Yearly Meetings (Society of Friends) - 1840 - 434 Seiten
...Well may the humble believer in an overruling Providence " tremble for his country, when he reflects that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep for ever." The documentary evidences which follow will render it unnecessary to go more minutely into the subject.... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - 1893 - 702 Seiten
...the memorable words of Jefferson, himself a slaveholder, when, in speaking of this evil, he said, " I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just. The Almighty has no attribute which can take sides with us in such a contest." Yet many churches, through... | |
 | Origen Bacheler, Robert Dale Owen - 1840 - 386 Seiten
...&c., &c., &c. So obvious is this, that even a Jefferson, when reflecting on slavery, could exclaim : " I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just." Ninth. Experience. I am not aware, sir, that Mahomctans, Hindoos, &c., pretend to know their God by... | |
 | Albert Gallatin - 1840 - 476 Seiten
...Well may the humble believer in an overruling Providence "tremble for his country, when he reflects that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep for ever." The documentary evidences which follow will render it unnecessary to go more minutely into the subject.... | |
 | George Combe - 1841 - 420 Seiten
...lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved... | |
 | New England Yearly Meeting of Friends. Representative Meeting - 1841 - 150 Seiten
...these liberties are the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a... | |
 | James Grahame - 1842 - 128 Seiten
...vengeance for bereaving any race of men of those liberties which are the gift of God, he says expressly—" I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just"— and adds that in the too probable event of a general insurrection of the negro slaves against their white... | |
 | 1843 - 404 Seiten
...tlicse* libertics are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated hut with his wrath ? fndeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep for ever; that considering; numbers, nature, and natural means only,... | |
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The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives... 
