 | Jesse Torrey - 1817 - 126 pagine
...extent of country.* Mr. Jefferson, in his Note on this subject, exclaims, " I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just ; and that his justice cannot sleep forever." The late Professor Barton, in his work on Botany, while treating on the article of rice and its cultivation... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1822 - 140 pagine
...to leave you.' 18. Mr. Jefferson, in his Note on this subject, exclaims, " I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep for ever." The late Professor Barton, in his work on Botany, while treating on the article of rice,... | |
 | 1826 - 582 pagine
...exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped with odious peculiarities." " I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep for ever." And speaking of the probability, that the blacks may assert their freedom, he adds, " the... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1830 - 362 pagine
...emphatic words of the same President may suggest what America must expect: " I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep/or ever." * FROM CHARLESTON TO NEW ORLEANS. THE district between Charleston and Savannah, is... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - 1832 - 264 pagine
...the pen of Mr Jefferson that comprehensive and soul-thrilling sentence — " I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep for ever. " But may we not indulge the hope that the evils spoken of will yet awaken the sympathies... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - 1832 - 278 pagine
...the pen of Mr Jefferson that comprehensive and soul-thrilling sentence — " I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep for ever. " But may we not indulge the hope that the evils spoken of will yet awaken the sympathies... | |
 | William Cogswell - 1833 - 368 pagine
...Well might Mr. Jefferson say in relation to the whole subject of slavery, " I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep forever. The Almighty has no atiribute which can-take sides with us in this unrighteous work." The wickedness... | |
 | New York City Anti-Slavery Society - 1833 - 90 pagine
...Jefferson. In another place, the same statesman has said in view of slavery, " I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep forever. The Almighty has no attribute which can take sides with uP," be put down. The express command of our... | |
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever, 
