 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...  History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue - Side 671859 - 280 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Thomas C. Thornton - 1841 - 358 sider
...he deprecated the idea that South Carolina and Georgia should be at liberty to import, and remarks, 'that some of our eastern brethren had, from a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic.' Gen. Pinckney treated the question as being, whether South Carolina should be excluded from the union.... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1849 - 632 sider
...petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of Heaven on a country. By an inevitable chain of causes 1787. and effects, Providence punishes national sins by...calamities. He lamented that 'some of our eastern brethren, from a lust of gain, have embarked in this nefarious traffic. As to the states being in possession... | |
 | Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - 1854 - 890 sider
...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." * * * * " He held it essential, in every point of view, that the general government should hav« power to prevent... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1855 - 1032 sider
...judgment of Heaven on a country. He lamented that some of our eastern brethren, from a lust of gain, had embarked in this nefarious traffic. As to the states being in possession of the right to import, that was the case of many other rights now to be given up. He held it essential, in every point of... | |
 | James Watson Webb - 1856 - 112 sider
...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." Now, what said Henry Clay, of Kentucky, himself a Slave-holder, as was Washington, and Jefferson, and... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1858 - 636 sider
...As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, tiiey must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects. Providence punishes national...He lamented that some of our eastern brethren had, as from a lust ol'gain, embarked in the nefarious traffic. As to the States being in possession of... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1858 - 638 sider
...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...calamities. He lamented that some of our eastern brethren bad, as from a lust of gain, embarked in the nefarious traffic. As to the States being in possession... | |
 | William O. Blake - 1857 - 934 sider
...judgment of heaven on a country. He lamented that some of our eastern brethren, from a lust of gain, had embarked in this nefarious traffic. As to the states being in possession of the right to import, that was the case of many other rights now to be given up. He held it essential, in every point of... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - 1861 - 514 sider
...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...case with many other rights, now to be properly given np. He held it essential, in every point of view, that the general government should have power to... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1861 - 686 sider
...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...states being in possession of the right to import, tin's was the case with many other rights, now to be properly given up. He held it essential, in every... | |
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