 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
 | Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy - Slavery - 1843 - 368 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...attribute which can take side with us in such a contest. What an incomprehensible machine is man ! Who can endure toil^ famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy - Slavery - 1843 - 308 pages
...I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot steep* for ever ; that considering numbers, nature, and natural means...events : that it may become probable by supernatural interferenee! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest. What an... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1844
...nature. " "Indeed, 1 tiemble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot slwp forever, that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel ol fortune, ail exchange of situations, is among possible events;, that it may become probable by supernaTnral... | |
 | Cassius Marcellus Clay - Slavery - 1848 - 535 pages
...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...interference ! The Almighty has no attribute which can take sides with us in such a contest." — Jefferson's Notes on Virginia. Thomas Jefferson never thought... | |
 | Science - 1848
...justice cannot sleep for ever ; that considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution in the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is...attribute which can take side with us in such a contest." Your success, Gentlemen, to which I have said, I look forward hopefully, if earned, as I expect, will... | |
 | Geology - 1848
...justice cannot sleep for ever ; that considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution in the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is...attribute which can take side with us in such a contest." Your success, Gentlemen, to which I have said, I look forward hopefully, if earned, as I expect, will... | |
 | Henry G. Wheeler - United States - 1848
...his wrath I I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is jn»t; that his justice can not deep forever ; that, considering numbers, nature, and natural...the wheel of Fortune, an exchange of situation, is umoug possible ovenu; tiiat it rnay become probable by supernatural interference! The Almightv ha*... | |
 | William Hosmer - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1852 - 204 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,...it may become probable by supernatural interference 1 The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest "What an incomprehensible... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1858
...his justice cannut sleep forever, that considering numbers and natural means only, a revolution in the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events ; it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take... | |
 | William Wells Brown - African American families - 1853 - 250 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. "What an incomprehensible machine is man ! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and... | |
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