 And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble...  The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it - Page 180by Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 420 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wells Brown - Abolitionists - 2001 - 112 pages
...Indeed 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...may become probable by supernatural interference!" Jefferson was not alone in such musings. Indeed, many northern states (with economies less reliant... | |
 | J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - African Americans in literature - 2001 - 314 pages
...for my country," he admits, "when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means...revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situations, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference!" (163;... | |
 | Walter Berns - Political Science - 2002 - 164 pages
...forever. He feared a slave uprising, and in that event, he said, God would be on the side of the slaves. "The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest." It might be said that Jefferson was not a typical slaveholder, that, as the principal author of the... | |
 | J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - African Americans in literature - 2001 - 314 pages
...admits, "when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that consideting numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exrhange of tituafions, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference!"... | |
 | Dickson D. Bruce - History - 2001 - 396 pages
...state of equality. Emancipation, he feared, would lead to racial warfare. And, he famously predicted, "the Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a conflict." Outside the Deep South the discomforts raised by Revolutionary arguments continued to be... | |
 | Seymour Bernard Sarason - Education - 2002 - 305 pages
...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...attribute which can take side with us in such a contest. That is as good an example of the force and strength of the continuity value as one can find. The man... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 pages
...gradually and peaceably might be forced violently: I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that...may become probable by supernatural interference! Here is the fear of Negro insurrection, the familiar specter of the Old South, but viewed as a probable... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 696 pages
...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...it may become probable by supernatural interference I The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest. — But it is impossible... | |
 | David Kazanjian - Social Science - 2003 - 334 pages
...Indeed 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...attribute which can take side with us in such a contest." Jefferson prophecies emancipation as a race war, a "contest" pitting white Americans against justice,... | |
 | Bruce Dain - History - 2002 - 350 pages
...Indeed 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...no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.82 Jefferson here grasped that in order to end slavery, Americans had to abandon notions of... | |
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