Excerpt from The Nation's Sin and Punishment: Or the Hand of God Visible in the Overthrow of Slavery To the Christian people of this great and free land, this little volume is affectionately dedicated. We have not, as we should have done, recognized the hand of our God, in the terrible judgments that have come on our Nation. The design of this little volume is, to trace those judgments to their legitimate and just cause, and to view, in its religious aspect, the sanguinary strife, through which we are now passing. As a Nation, we are guilty, in having tolerated and up held for a long series of years, the most matured system of iniquity and oppression, that devils or wicked men ever yet devised. The wonder is, that, the Divine judgments did not descend upon us long ago. But our eyes have been opened at length, and we are thankful, that our land is to be cleans ed from its pollutions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.