Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
INTRODUCTION.--SOUTHERN COURTESY AND HOSPITALITY.--CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOUTH AND NORTH.--NO ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE AT HEART.--THEY SHOULD UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER BETTER.--A FREE INTERCHANGE OF SENTIMENT DESIRABLE.--SINCERE PATRIOTISM AND PIETY COMMON TO BOTH.--THESE AN EFFECTUA...
INTRODUCTION.--SOUTHERN COURTESY AND HOSPITALITY.--CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOUTH AND NORTH.--NO ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE AT HEART.--THEY SHOULD UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER BETTER.--A FREE...
2. LETTER II.A DIFFICULT AND DELICATE SUBJECT PROPOSED.--AGITATION OF IT UNAVOIDABLE.--CHRISTIANS NORTH AND SOUTH SHOULD GIVE THE DISCUSSION OF IT A RIGHT DIRECTION.--WE ARE ALL INTERESTED I...
3. LETTER III.THE REAL SUBJECT.--NOT TO BE CONFOUNDED WITH ANCIENT SERVITUDE.--NOR TO BE JUDGED OF BY ISOLATED CASES.--NORTHERN MEN COMPETENT AS OTHERS TO DETERMINE ITS TRUE CHARACTER.--SLAVE...
4. LETTER IV.MY DEAR CHRISTIAN FRIEND,--A second characteristic of American slavery is, It regards human beings, declared to be in the "image of God," as "chattels,"--things or articles of m...
5. LETTER V.MY DEAR BROTHER,--I come now, in the third place, to speak of slavery as it is related to the endearments and duties of domestic life. On this subject my heart is full. I am alm...
6. LETTER VI.MY DEAR CHRISTIAN BROTHER,--My objections to any system of government that interferes at will with the family relation, and forcibly separates husbands and wives, parents and ch...
7. LETTER VII.THE CROWNING EVIL OF SLAVERY.--PRECIOUSNESS OF THE BIBLE.--OUR CHART AND COMPASS ON LIFE'S VOYAGE INDISPENSABLE.--ORAL INSTRUCTIONS INSUFFICIENT.--DANGERS.--SHIPWRECK ALMOST INE...
8. LETTER VIII.MY DEAR CHRISTIAN FRIEND,--I fear I shall make myself tedious to you by dwelling so long upon this, to me, painful subject,--slavery. I will, therefore, in the present letter, f...