 | Marion Mills Miller - 1916 - 440 σελίδες
...a country. As nations cannot be 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 Federal government should have power to prevent the... | |
 | John Fiske - 1888 - 610 σελίδες
...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 these prophetic words were powerless against the combination of New England with the far south.... | |
 | 1918 - 544 σελίδες
...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." 7 3 Mr. Ellsworth, of Connecticut, said, inter al. — "Let us not intermeddle. As population increases,... | |
 | 1919 - 920 σελίδες
...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...a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic . . . He held: it essential in every point of view, that the General Government should have power to... | |
 | Bunford Samuel - 1920 - 416 σελίδες
...prohibited the importation of slaves expressly. North Carolina had done the same in substance. . . . He lamented that some of our eastern brethren had,...lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic," etc. "Mr. Tyler warmly enlarged on the impolicy, iniquity, and disgracefulness of this wicked traffic.... | |
 | Clark Prescott Bissett - 1923 - 266 σελίδες
...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 a warning of awful calamity to come was not so effective with the majority, as was the desire to... | |
 | James Montgomery Beck - 1924 - 358 σελίδες
...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.... | |
 | National Republican club inc - 1927 - 408 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1906 - 200 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 2000 - 316 σελίδες
...trying to lay blame on anyone but Virginians for the problem of slavery, Mason "lamented" that his "Eastern brethren had from a lust of gain embarked in this nefarious traffic." Mason leveled some of the strongest criticism of slavery yet heard at the convention, declaring it... | |
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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... 
