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
| 1882 - 340 pages
...them. Speaking of the true welfare of States, George Mason, of Virginia, said : " By an inscrutable chain of causes and effects Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." But in the situation with which we are familiar the startling fact is not so much the corruption as... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - Clergy - 1883 - 466 pages
...system, adding the solemn warning, now fearfully justifying itself in the sight of bis descendants, that "by an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." The Virginian romancer pictured the far-off scenes of the conflict which he saw approaching as the... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 482 pages
...adding the solemn warning, now fearfully justifying itself in the sight of his descendants, that " by an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." The Virginian romancer pictured the far-off scenes of the conflict which he saw approaching as the... | |
| George Bancroft - Constitutional history - 1884 - 530 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,...Providence punishes national sins by national calamities. I lament that some of our eastern brethren have, from a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic.... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 610 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,...Providence punishes national sins by national calamities. I lament that some of our eastern brethren have, from a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic.... | |
| Sydney Howard Gay - Presidents - 1884 - 368 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...Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." These were warnings worth heeding. But Ellsworth retorted with a sneer : " As he had never owned a... | |
| Sydney Howard Gay - Biography & Autobiography - 1884 - 374 pages
...a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By au inevitable chain of causes and effects Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." These were warnings worth heeding. But Ellsworth retorted with a sneer : " As he had never owned a... | |
| Lyon Gardiner Tyler - United States - 1884 - 666 pages
...dishonorable to the American character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution." Col. George Mason lamented "that some of our Eastern brethren had, from a lust of gain, engaged in this nefarious traffic." The effect, he said, of the provision to pass commercial laws by... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1885 - 616 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,...Providence punishes national sins by national calamities. I lament that some of our eastern brethren have, from a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic.... | |
| John Fiske - United States - 1888 - 402 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,...Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." But these prophetic words were powerless against the combination of New England with the far south.... | |
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