South and North: Or, Impressions Received During a Trip to Cuba and the South

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Michigan Publishing, 1860 - History - 356 pages

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Page 83 - can not sleep forever ; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situations is among possible events; that it may become probable, by supernatural interference. The Almighty has no attribute which can take sides with us in such a contest.
Page 100 - And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half of the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies ; destroys the morals of one part, and the amor patriœ
Page 30 - is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf-Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississipi or the Amazon, and its volume more than
Page 34 - Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him, for he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are dust.
Page 100 - is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions—the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other "And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half
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Page 101 - with patience, the workings of an overruling Providence, and hope that that is preparing the deliverance of these, our brethren! When the measure of their tears shall be full, when their groans shall have involved heaven itself in darkness, doubtless a God of justice will awaken to their distress. Nothing is more certainly written in the Book of Fate, than that this people shall be free.
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Page 109 - I can only say that there is not a man living, who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it,

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