 | Daniel Gardner - Constitutional law - 1844 - 336 pages
...true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when...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 ? Indeed, I tremble for my country... | |
 | Friedrich von Raumer - United States - 1846 - 522 pages
...undepraved by such circumstances ; and with the morals of a people, their industry is also destroyed. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when...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 ? Indeed, I tremble for my country,... | |
 | Cassius Marcellus Clay - History - 1848 - 550 pages
...[half-past nine o'clock] adjourned. SLAVERY: THE EVIL-THE REMEDY. To THE EDITOR OF THE TRIBUNE : i " AND can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when...in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God ? • • • Indeed, I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just : that... | |
 | Science - 1848 - 448 pages
...knew well the evils of slavery, and the dangers connected with it, alluding to these, has said : — " Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep for ever ; that considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution in the wheel of fortune,... | |
 | Science - 1848 - 494 pages
...knew well the evils of slavery, and the dangers connected with it, alluding to these, has said : — " Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep for ever ; that considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution in the wheel of fortune,... | |
 | Henry G. Wheeler - United States - 1848 - 692 pages
...the people of the whole ?oua' Mr. Jefferson, speaking in the most emphatic language, says: " ' And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have rent* ri their only firm hasis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberty* are the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1858 - 586 pages
...human bondage. In a letter to a distinguished Frenchman, he wrote the following memorable words : " Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when...removed their only firm basis — a conviction in the minda of the people that these liberties are the gift of God'.' that they are not to be violnted except... | |
 | William Hosmer - History - 1852 - 206 pages
...which our government inflicts on the negro, was never more clearly expressed than by Mr. Jefferson: " 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 of the gift of God ? That... | |
 | William Jay - Slavery - 1853 - 684 pages
...have removed the 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...reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep for ever ; that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 1853 - 296 pages
...miserable condition on the endless generations proceeding from him. And can the liberties of a nation he thought secure when we have removed their only firm...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 ? Indeed, I tremble for my country... | |
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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 of the gift of God? 
