 | James Freeman Clarke - Abolitionists - 1891 - 448 pages
...said that, in a contest between the enslaved and their oppressors, not improbable, in his judgment, " the Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest." l A confession of judgment perhaps unparalleled, and sufficiently decisive of his belief that slavery... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 634 pages
...of situation, is among possible events : that it may become probable by supernatural interference ! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest. — But it is impossible to be temperate and to pursue this subject through the various considerations... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 448 pages
...exchange of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest. But it is impossible to be temperate, and to pursue this subject through the various considerations... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - Presidents - 1898 - 378 pages
...of situation, is among possible events ; that it may become probable by supernatural interference ! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest." This letter is not only interesting as an utterance of Jefferson's views concerning slavery, but also... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1898 - 268 pages
...exchange of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us -in such a contest." —Works, vol. HI (Ford}, pp. 268-7. The following letters from Jefferson will show how he felt in... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1900 - 654 pages
...of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference I The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest." — Works, vol. Ill (Ford), pp. 266-7. The following letters from Jefferson will show how he felt in... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...exchange of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference. The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest (with slaves). (From "Notes on Virginia," 1782. F. III., 267.) SLAVERY. — With" wfiat execrations... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 458 pages
...of situation, is among possible events ; that it may become probable by supernatural interference ! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in that event." And shall these things be ? 'Tis fit that he should chide who bears the shame ! How long,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Statesmen - 1905 - 360 pages
...exchange of situation is among possible events ; that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest But it is impossible to be temperate and to pursue this subject through the various considerations... | |
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... when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by... 
