...who cannot be supposed to be prejudiced in favour of the African race : — " I tremble," says he, " I tremble for my country, when I remember that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep for ever ; and that an exchange of circumstances is among probable...

...times. The first, speakS83 ing of the oppression of the African race in the United States, says, " I tremble for my country, when I remember that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: and that a change of circumstances is among probable events....

...often brings to mind the expressions of that illustrious statesman, Thomas Jefferson, when he says, " I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever."* May not the slave system be compared to a machine of...

...quoted upon this floor, (Mr. Jefferson,) and in reference to a subject not dissimilar to the present, " I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever." And although the particular mode of retribution which...

...actuated the immortal Jefferson himself, when he exclaimed, in reference to the evil of slavery — " I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep for ever." Previous to the call of this Convention, assemblages of the...

...awfully ominous in the connexion in which it was uttered, does equal honor to his head and his heart, " I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just." In that sentence are involved the principles of that higher statesmanship before which the expedients...

...world: and it erposes the whole nation to the wrath of God. Even Jefferson, who was no fanatic, said: "I tremble for my country, when I remember that God is just." But it is said, you will produce excitement: what then ? Did not Christ produce excitement ? Did he...

...awfully ominous in the connexion in which it was uttered, does equal honor to his head and his heart, " I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just." In that sentence are involved the principles of that higher statesmanship before which the expedients...

...awfully ominous in the connexion in which it was uttered, does equal honor to his head and his heart, " I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just." In that sentence are involved the principles of that higher statesmanship before which the expedients...

...doubt. It is no wonder that a great statesman who had always been conversant with Shivery should say, " I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just." But what are the abuses of which our author complains, the grievous laws and customs which are so offensive...