...the emphatic prophecy, " that emancipation must be adopted, or worse would follow. That nothing was more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people (the negroes) were to be free.'1'1 The manner of this expression is less that of a philosopher than...

...struggle. Whatever is morally wrong cannot be politically right." Referring to the slaves, he says : — " Nothing is more certainly written in the Book of Fate than that these people are to be free." President Jefferson also said, " One hour of American slavery is fraught with more misery than ages...

...our case." Nothing, says Jefferson in the extract which we have just made, is more certainly icritten in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. We neither can nor do we agree with this enunciation of opinion. Without recurring to that curse which...

...many years had made no change in his sentiments. Says he: " The principles of the amendment, however, were agreed on in the committee, that is to say, the...and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainty written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain,...

...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." In a letter to James Heaton, on this same subject, dated May 20, 1826,...

...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." In a letter to James Heaton, on this same subject, dated May 20, 1826,...

...found that the pnblic mind would not yet bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this d.iy. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt...in the book of fate, than that these people are to If free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the umt government....

...and adopt the general emancipation of their slaves. ' Nothing is more certainly written,' said he, ' in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free.' My countrymen! it is written in a better volume than the book of fate; it is written in the laws of...

...and adopt the general emancipation of their slaves. ' Nothing is more certainly written,' said he, ' in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free.' My countrymen I it is written in a better volume than the book of fate ; it is written in the laws...

...many years had made no change in his sentiments. Says he : " The principles of the amendment, however, were agreed on in the committee, that is to say, the...must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing ia more certainty written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less...