...who cannot be supposed to be prejudiced in favour of the African race:— " I tremble, 1 ' 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 events. The Almighty has no attribute which...

...Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep fer ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural...it may become probable by supernatural interference ! The almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest....But it is impossible...

...modern times. T\v«, fcc*V, ing of the oppression of the African race in the United States, says, " ' tremble for my country, when I remember that God is just: that his justic cannot sleep forever: and that a chans of circumstances is among probable events. The Almighty...

...That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I 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 fortune, an exchange...

...delivered by Mr. Jefferson. " I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just; that this justice cannot sleep for ever; that considering numbers,...among possible events; that it may become probable by superior interference. The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest."—p....

...tuated the immortal Jefferson himself, when he exclaimed, in reference to the evil of slavery—•" / 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 inhabitants of many of the cities in the...

...conntry," says Jefferson, in his observations on the slave population of this province, " when 1 reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep for...ever ; that considering numbers, nature, and natural menns only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of .situation, is among possible events;...

...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...

...lived in the midst of slavery? Hear him again :— * Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep for...it may become probable by supernatural interference ! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.' Hear him once more...

...That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep for...exchange of situation, is among possible events : that it ' .1 1* • » ' ft U / I , 14 THOMAS JEFFERSON. may become probable by supernatural interference !...