7985. SLAVES (Emancipation), Providence and.—
We must await with patience
the workings of an overruling Providence, and
hope that that is preparing the deliverance of
these, our suffering 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, and by diffusing light
and liberality among their oppressors, or, at
length, by His exterminating thunder, manifest
His attention to the things of this world, and
that they are not left to the guidance of a blind
fatality.—
To M. de Meunier. Washington ed. ix, 279.
Ford ed., iv, 185.
(P.
1786)
