Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Slavery Ordained of God

The book I give to the public, is not made up of isolated articles. It is one harmonious demonstration--that slavery is part of the government ordained in certain conditions of fallen mankind. I present the subject in the form of speeches, actually delivered, and letters writt...

Chapters

3. Chapter 3

The subject of slavery, in this view of _right and wrong_, is seen in the very light of heaven. And you, Mr. Moderator, know that, if the view I have presented be true, I have g...

2. Chapter 2

Can all this be? Can this double emigration civilize Africa and more than re-people the South? Yes; and I regard the difficulties presented here, in Congress, or the country, as...

4. Chapter 4

Mr. Moderator, I think we had on this floor, yesterday, proof conclusive that those resolutions mean any thing or nothing; that they are a fine specimen of Northern skill in pla...

6. Chapter 6

The Bible, then, in proclaiming God's will _as to these three great impulses_, will be rejected by men, exactly as they have yielded forbidden control to the one or the other of...

5. Chapter 5

Carry it out, and what is the progress and the end of it? This. Human reason--the human heart--will be supreme. Some, I grant, will hold to a revelation of some sort. A thing mo...

7. Chapter 7

These links are logical sequences. All men--man and woman--are created equal,--equal in _attributes of body and mind_; (for _that_ is the only sense in which they could be _crea...

1. Chapter 1

The book I give to the public, is not made up of isolated articles. It is one harmonious demonstration--that slavery is part of the government ordained in certain conditions of...

9. Chapter 9

Jamaica, sir, to say nothing of St. Domingo, is illustration of your theory of the Golden Rule, in negro emancipation. You tell the Southern master that all he would _expect_ or...

8. Chapter 8

I will not dwell longer on these milder forms of slavery, but read to you the clear and unmistakable command of the Lord in Leviticus xxv. 44, 46:--"Both thy bondmen and thy bon...