The Consequences of Slavery

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever; 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 contest"-Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia QXVIII, 1782. ME 2:227