 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...  Soundings from the Atlantic - Pagina 411di Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1864 - 468 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1863 - 640 pagine
...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. He held it essential, in every point of view, that the General Government should have the power to... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1845 - 672 pagine
...Heaven on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in thfs. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities. He lamented that some of our eastern brethren had, from a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious... | |
 | Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - 1854 - 892 pagine
...on a country. If 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 have power... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 pagine
...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. He lamented that some of our Eastern brethren had, from a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious... | |
 | James Watson Webb - 1856 - 112 pagine
...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." Now, what said Henry Clay, of Kentucky, himself a Slave-holder, as was Washington, and Jefferson, and... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - 1856 - 220 pagine
...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. He lamented that some of our Eastern brethren had, from a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1856 - 756 pagine
...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 alamities. He lamented that some of our eastern brethren, from a lust of gain, have embarked in this... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 432 pagine
...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. He lamented that some of our Eastern brethren had, from a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 432 pagine
...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. He lamented that some of our Eastern brethren had, from a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1858 - 638 pagine
...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. He lamented that some of our eastern brethren bad, as from a lust of gain, embarked in the nefarious... | |
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