 | Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 474 pages
...slaves, a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labour. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm...reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep for ever : that consid. ering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 204 pages
...Virginia, written some years after, he uses this strong language. "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm...the minds of the people, that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...is destroyed besides the morals of the people ? What are the effects of a warm climate on industry ? thought secure, when we have removed their only firm...basis, a conviction in the minds of the people, that their liberties are the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed... | |
 | African Americans - 1830 - 398 pages
...renders the task more arduous to be performed." Mr. Jefferson. "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we have removed their only firm...people, that these liberties are the gift of God. With what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens to trample... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labour. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm...in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...admonition which recent events have almost ripened into prophecy : "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm...the minds of the people, that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath 1 Indeed, I tremble for my... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 pages
...admonition which recent events have almost ripened into prophecy : ' Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm...the minds of the people, that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my... | |
 | William Thomas - Abolitionists - 1835 - 196 pages
...Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson, by Ra\ nt." . t See Appendix No. VII. thought safe when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction...the people that these liberties are the gift of God ?" We declare that " all men are born free and equal." But we see one half of the inhabitants of our... | |
 | William Thomas - Abolitionists - 1835 - 202 pages
...and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson, by Raynet. t See Appendix No. VU< thought safe when we have icmoved their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of...the people that these liberties are the gift of God ?" We declare that " all men are born free and equal." But we see one half of the inhabitants of «ir... | |
 | Frederick Freeman - African Americans - 1836 - 380 pages
...reproach which are otherwise unavoidable." 'Mr. JEFFERSON asks, " Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we have removed their only firm...basis, a conviction in the minds of the people, that their liberties are the gift of God?" ' JUDGE WASHINGTON, in a speech before the Colonization Society,... | |
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And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? 
