Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every... Scribners Monthly - Page 3301873Full view - About this book
| 1921 - 750 pages
...we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn... | |
| Theodore Tilton - American essays - 1870 - 340 pages
...it cannot fade from the memory of this generation : " If you will," says he, ".that the war continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn... | |
| Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 422 pages
...we pray that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn... | |
| United States. Department of State - 1871 - 478 pages
...niothris mingled with the groans of the victim», said, •' Yet, if God wills that the war confia» until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall l>e pai<l Ц another drawn... | |
| African Americans - 1871 - 370 pages
...attends them here, for Liberia is the land of the negro, and the white man is there a foreigner. Of "all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil" we can surely spare a small part to aid in restoring him to the ancient home of his race. He... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - United States - 1872 - 690 pages
...do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may soon pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred...drawn with the lash shall be paid with another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago ; so, still it must be said, ' The judgments of... | |
| English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn... | |
| Malcolm McGregor Dana - Norwich (Conn. : Town) - 1873 - 438 pages
...fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn... | |
| Malcolm McGregor Dana - Norwich (Conn. : Town) - 1873 - 432 pages
...fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn... | |
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