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... The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it - Page 205by Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 420 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.... | |
| Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...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,...punishes national sins by national calamities. He held it essential, in every point of view, that the General Government should have the power to prevent... | |
| 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
...judgment of Heaven on a country. If nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects,...national sins by national calamities." * * * * " He held it essential, in every point of view, that the general government should have 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
...of Heaven upon 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 sins by national calamities." Now, what said Henry Clay, of Kentucky, himself a Slave-holder, as was Washington, and Jefferson, and... | |
| Frederick Law Olmsted - Enslaved persons - 1856 - 756 pages
...manners. Every master 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 alamities. He lamented that some of our eastern brethren, from a lust of gain, have embarked in this... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1858 - 636 pages
...of Heaven upon a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, tiiey must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects....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
...of Heaven upon 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....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... | |
| William 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... | |
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