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
| Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 488 pages
...the judgment of heaven on a country. As nations can not be punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects...punishes national sins by national calamities. . . . He held it essential in every point of view that the general government should have power to prevent the... | |
| 1913 - 114 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." On one question the convention was almost a unit, and that was an emphatic condemnation of paper money.... | |
| Gaillard Hunt - United States - 1914 - 358 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." There is not much to add to this sweeping paragraph from a Virginia planter and slaveholder. As for... | |
| James Zachariah George, William Hayne Leavell - African Americans - 1915 - 388 pages
...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....with many other rights now to be properly given up. I hold it essential, in every point of view, that the General Government shall have power to prevent... | |
| James Zachariah George, William Hayne Leavell - African Americans - 1915 - 386 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.... | |
| Marion Mills Miller - Public lands - 1916 - 440 pages
...the judgment of heaven on a country. As nations cannot be punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects...punishes national sins by national calamities. He held it essential in every point of view that the Federal government should have power to prevent the... | |
| John Fiske - America - 1888 - 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." But these prophetic words were powerless against the combination of New England with the far south.... | |
| James Augustin Brown Scherer - Cotton growing - 1916 - 474 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."4 Columbus himself had introduced slavery into America, by taking some of the Caribs into... | |
| Ohio - 1918 - 544 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." 7 3 Mr. Ellsworth, of Connecticut, said, inter al. — "Let us not intermeddle. As population increases,... | |
| Ohio - 1919 - 450 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."7* Mr. Ellsworth, of Connecticut, said, inter al. — "Let us not intermeddle. As population... | |
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