| Maryland State Bar Association - 1906 - 200 páginas
...produced the most pernicious effect on manners, that every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant, and he lamented that "some of our Eastern brethren had...lust of gain embarked in this nefarious traffic." Gouverneur Morris claimed that the whole system was based on a bargain between the Northern and Southern... | |
| William Montgomery Meigs - 1899 - 424 páginas
...Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of Heaven on a country. . . ." He lamented that " some of our Eastern brethren had,...lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic." Considerable warmth was generated, and several threats made that the plan would certainly fail if the... | |
| Philip Alexander Bruce, William Glover Stanard - 1899 - 572 páginas
...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 sins by national calamities. I lament that some of our eastern brethren have, from a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic.... | |
| Southern Historical Society - 1899 - 814 páginas
...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 sins by national calamities." "But," says Mr. Fiske, "these prophetic words were powerless against the combination of New England... | |
| William Patrick Willey - 1901 - 284 páginas
...— 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...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... | |
| Granville Davisson Hall - 1902 - 972 páginas
...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 calamities. Prophetic words, soon realized after Virginia and South Carolina undertook to propagate the new gospel... | |
| Granville Davisson Hall - 1901 - 644 páginas
...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 calamities. Prophetic words, soon realized after Virginia and South Carolina undertook to propagate the new gospel... | |
| Gaillard Hunt - 1902 - 424 páginas
...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,...lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic. "* Edmund Randolph wrote to Madison in 1789 that he desired to go to Philadelphia to practise law.... | |
| William H. Snowden - 1902 - 138 páginas
...of Heaven on a country. As nations can not be rewarded nor 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. I regret that some of our Eastern brethern have from a love of gain embarked in this nefarious traffic.... | |
| Republican Club of the City of New York - 1902 - 88 páginas
...of Heaven 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." It was another Virginian, Thomas Jefferson, who later said of slavery: "Indeed, I tremble for my country... | |
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