Category: History - American
"Here we see _God dealing in slaves_; giving them to his own favorite child [Abraham], a man of superlative worth, and as a reward for his eminent goodness."--_Rev. Theodore Clapp, of New Orleans._
"Here we see _God dealing in slaves_; giving them to his own favorite child [Abraham], a man of superlative worth, and as a reward for his eminent goodness."--_Rev. Theodore Cla...
2. CHAPTER II."It is universally the fact throughout the Slaveholding States, that either custom or law prohibits them [_i.e._ the slaves] the acquisition of letters."--_Report made to Synod...
3. CHAPTER III."When the charge of the intellectual and moral degradation of the slaves is preferred against us," says Mr. Jones[B] ("Religious Instruction," p. 107), "we are inclined to put t...
4. CHAPTER IV."By the providence and word of God," says Mr. Jones ("Religious Instruction," pp. 165, 166), "are we under obligations to impart the gospel to our servants.... We cannot disrega...
5. CHAPTER V."Hath _He_ not brought you out of a land of darkness and ignorance, where your forefathers knew nothing of him, to a country where you may come to the knowledge of the only true...
6. CHAPTER VI."Marriage," says De Wette, "is genuine only when single and permanent. It is then also the first and most important institution of human existence; the foundation of all civiliz...
7. CHAPTER VII.If we would most effectually degrade a man, we need only trample on the highest and holiest of all his rights,--his right to himself; we have only to make him the subject of bar...
8. CHAPTER VIII.No description of ours can give any adequate idea of the extent of this terrible trade. It is as regular a branch of business as any other that can be named. The city of Washing...
9. CHAPTER IX.The treatment which runaway slaves receive cannot but greatly degrade them. Pious as well as worldly masters consider that their slaves have no more right to run away than their...
10. CHAPTER X."No seeming of logic can ever convince the American people, that thousands of our slaveholding brethren are not excellent, humane, and even Christian men, fearing God, and keepi...
11. CHAPTER XI.The Constitution is not what it ought to be, not what we wish it to be; not what is consistent with sound morals, but simply what its words meant in 1789,--nothing more, nothing...
12. CHAPTER XII.The people made it, the people adopted it, the people must be supposed to read it with the help of common sense, and cannot be presumed to admit in it any hidden or extraordinar...
13. CHAPTER XIII."Yes!--it cannot be denied--the slaveholding lords of the South prescribed, as a condition of their assent to the Constitution, three special provisions to secure the perpetuity...
14. CHAPTER XIV.The Constitution (Art. 1, sec. 2, par. 3) provides that the enumeration of the people of the United States (upon which the apportionment of representatives and direct taxes was...
15. CHAPTER XV."The judicial department of the United States is, in the last resort, the final expositor of the Constitution as to all questions of a judicial nature. Were there no power to in...
16. CHAPTER XVI."We will extend to the slaveholder all the courtesy he will allow. If he is hungry, we will feed him; if he is in want, both hands shall be stretched out for his aid. We will gi...