| Jesse Torrey - Africa, West - 1817 - 126 pages
...extent of country.* Mr. Jefferson, in his Note on this subject, exclaims, " I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just ; and that his justice cannot sleep forever." The late Professor Barton, in his work on Botany, while treating on the article of rice and its cultivation... | |
| Jesse Torrey - Slave trade - 1822 - 140 pages
...to leave you.' 18. Mr. Jefferson, in his Note on this subject, exclaims, " I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep for ever." The late Professor Barton, in his work on Botany, while treating on the article of rice,... | |
| African Americans - 1826 - 582 pages
...exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped with odious peculiarities." " I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep for ever." And speaking of the probability, that the blacks may assert their freedom, he adds, " the... | |
| Josiah Conder - North America - 1830 - 362 pages
...emphatic words of the same President may suggest what America must expect: " I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep/or ever." * FROM CHARLESTON TO NEW ORLEANS. THE district between Charleston and Savannah, is... | |
| William Lloyd Garrison - African Americans - 1832 - 278 pages
...the pen of Mr Jefferson that comprehensive and soul-thrilling sentence — " I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep for ever. " But may we not indulge the hope that the evils spoken of will yet awaken the sympathies... | |
| William Lloyd Garrison - African Americans - 1832 - 264 pages
...the pen of Mr Jefferson that comprehensive and soul-thrilling sentence — " I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep for ever. " But may we not indulge the hope that the evils spoken of will yet awaken the sympathies... | |
| William Cogswell - Christian life - 1833 - 368 pages
...the rest of their fellow creatures. Well might Mr. Jefferson say in relation to the whole subject of slavery, " I tremble for my country when I reflect...is just, and that his justice cannot sleep forever. The Almighty has no atiribute which can-take sides with us in this unrighteous work." The wickedness... | |
| New York City Anti-Slavery Society - Abolitionists - 1833 - 90 pages
...undepraved, in such circumstances. " — Jefferson. In another place, the same statesman has said in view of slavery, " I tremble for my country, when I reflect...is just, and that his justice cannot sleep forever. The Almighty has no attribute which can take sides with uP," be put down. The express command of our... | |
| Origen Bacheler - Bible - 1833 - 388 pages
...to Jefferson, even he was not one of your thorough going French infidels. He could aay, in view of slavery, " I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever." He was quite as religions as Robespierre, whom my opponent attempted to turn... | |
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