 | Slavery - 1843 - 404 pages
...proprietors of slaves, a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. And can theliberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed...basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that thescliberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated bur with his wrath? Indeed,... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy - Slavery - 1843 - 598 pages
...true, that of the proprietors of slaves, a very smalt proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. And cnn the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed thiis only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of Sie people that thrstliberties are of the gift... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - Constitutional law - 1844 - 336 pages
...is so 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,...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,...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... | |
 | Henry G. Wheeler - United States - 1848 - 692 pages
...impoverishes 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 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... | |
 | 164 pages
...proportion, indeed, are ever seen to labor. And can tho liberties of a nation be thought secure when wo 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. Indeed I tremble for my country... | |
 | Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1853 - 792 pages
...labor." " And can the liberties of a nation," he exclaims, " be thought secure, when we 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 but by 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 the gift of God... 
