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These very unique Americans solemnly warned the New
Nation about the potentially fatal dangers of not complying with the will of GOD
concerning the matter of chattel slavery and its’ generational
aftermath.
They each espoused a spiritual belief that our GOD balances the
existence of the United States upon the fulcrum of how, when, if ever
Americans resolve their unfinished business with HIM concerning this
“nation of immigrants” treatment of HIS Personal property being, the
enslaved, exiled West & Central African peoples.
Please Read and Take Heed.
Thomas Jefferson - 1785 June (First publication of Notes on the
State of Virginia).
"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 I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that
his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and
natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of
situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by
supernatural interference!
The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a
context.... I think a change already perceptible, since the origin of
the present revolution.
The spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising from the
dust, his condition mollifying, the way I hope preparing, under the
auspices of heaven, for a total emancipation, and that this is disposed,
in the order of events, to be with the consent of the masters, rather
than by their extirpation."[10]
Abraham Lincoln, November 1863 (Gettysburg Address)
“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining
before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to
that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that
we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain --
that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and
that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe, (Author, Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
"This is God's curse on slavery!--a bitter,
bitter, most accursed thing!--a curse to the master and a curse to the
slave........but, a day of grace is yet held out to us.
Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian
church has a heavy account to answer.
Not by combining together, to protect injustice and cruelty, and making
a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved,--but by repentance,
justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by
which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which
injustice
and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God..........."
Rev.-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (“I Have A Dream” Speech,
August 1963)
“Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be
content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as
usual.”
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