 | JACOB PIATT DUNN - 1919 - 694 pages
...exchange of situation is among possible events; thai it may become probable by supernatural interference. The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest." JOHNSTON '' With respect to the influence which the practice of slavery may have upon morals and manners;... | |
 | John Allen - African Americans - 1926 - 54 pages
...situation, is among possible events : that it may be" come 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 io pursue this subject " through the -various considerations... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1902 - 712 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... | |
 | American essays - 1862 - 884 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." Well may Jefferson say, immediately after this, that " it is impossible to be temperate and to pursue... | |
 | American essays - 1872 - 898 pages
...of situations, 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." At the close of the war, then, Jefferson supposed his public life ended. He was sure of it. He had... | |
 | Dana D. Nelson - American literature - 1994 - 209 pages
...of situations, 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. 30 Robinson is able to make a fair case. But a careful reading might equally suggest the opposite.... | |
 | Wilson Jeremiah Moses - Social Science - 2010 - 301 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. s If white Americans were given to such speculations, literate black Americans were even more so inclined.... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 500 pages
...pp. 162-63. 141. Notes, p. 143. 142. Jefferson even admitted such revolts might be "just," and that "the Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest." Notes. Query XVIII. 143. TJ to John Holmes, April 22, 1820, Ford, X, pp. 157-58. 144. Ibid, p. 158.... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 470 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... | |
 | Henry Steele Commager - History - 1993 - 148 pages
...country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever. . . . The Almighty hath no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest." ("With us" meant the slaveholding whites.) A people's character and a people's policies are, I think,... | |
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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... 
