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
| Bunford Samuel - Constitutional law - 1920 - 416 pages
...prohibited the importation of slaves expressly. North Carolina had done the same in substance. . . . He lamented that some of our eastern brethren had,...lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic," etc. "Mr. Tyler warmly enlarged on the impolicy, iniquity, and disgracefulness of this wicked traffic.... | |
| Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - African Americans - 1921 - 550 pages
...manners. Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of Heaven on a country. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities."18 A memorial presented to the convention in October im 1829, said that Virginia was in... | |
| Clark Prescott Bissett - Presidents - 1923 - 266 pages
...of Heaven upon 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 a warning of awful calamity to come was not so effective with the majority, as was the desire to... | |
| James Montgomery Beck - Constitutional history - 1924 - 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. I lament that some of our Eastern brethren have, from a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic.... | |
| National Republican club inc - 1927 - 408 pages
...of Heaven upon 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." It was another Virginian, Thomas Jefferson, who later said of slavery "Indeed I tremble for my country... | |
| Maryland State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1906 - 200 pages
...produced the most pernicious effect on manners, that every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant, and he lamented that "some of our Eastern brethren had...lust of gain embarked in this nefarious traffic." Gouverneur Morris claimed that the whole system was based on a bargain between the Northern and Southern... | |
| Archives - 2000 - 316 pages
...trying to lay blame on anyone but Virginians for the problem of slavery, Mason "lamented" that his "Eastern brethren had from a lust of gain embarked in this nefarious traffic." Mason leveled some of the strongest criticism of slavery yet heard at the convention, declaring it... | |
| Jay Saunders Redding - History - 1992 - 252 pages
...judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects...providence punishes national sins, by national calamities." The North, where steps had already been taken to end slavery importation, wanted an end put to "the... | |
| John Franklin Jameson - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 470 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,...punishes national sins by national calamities. He held it essential in every point of view, that the general government should have power to prevent... | |
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