Jefferson was quite correct when he predicted that slavery would eventually end in cataclysm, with slavery judged morally evil by God Himself: “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 contest.”22 The failure of Americans to live up to the founding ideals of the
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