| Methodist Church - 1859 - 690 pages
...slaves, a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. 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 "iff of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Cuba - 1860 - 374 pages
...American democracy say, and his words are worthy of being pondered : " 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 by his wrath ? Indeed I tremble... | |
| William M. Thayer - Boston (Mass.) - 1860 - 358 pages
...slaves, a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. 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 ? Indeed,... | |
| James Redpath - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 530 pages
...morals of the one part, and the amor patria of the other ! And can the liberties of a nation be deemed 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 arc not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed,... | |
| Alexander M'Leod - Slavery - 1860 - 46 pages
...proprietors of slaves a small proportion is ever seen to labor. 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 public that their liberties are the gift of God ? that they are not to be violated but with his wrath?... | |
| Elhanan Winchester Reynolds - Slavery - 1862 - 252 pages
...Liberties beyond the sea — rising from their sepulchres — wafted after her their solemn " God speed ! " we have removed their only firm basis, — a conviction...the minds of the people that their liberties are the gifts of God, that they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my country... | |
| Elhanan Winchester Reynolds - Slavery - 1862 - 268 pages
...Liberties beyond the sea — rising from their sepulchres — wafted after her their solemn " God speed ! " we have removed their only firm basis, — a conviction...the minds of the people that their liberties are the gifts of God, that they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. And can the libertics of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm...basis, — a conviction in the minds of the people that these libertics are the gift of God ? — that they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. 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 ? Indeed,... | |
| George Livermore - African Americans - 1862 - 246 pages
...slaves, a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. 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? — that they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed... | |
| |