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: adopted, continued without overriding necessity.
f or voluntarily extended. agree that both the
r opinions aud the feelings of southern men ON this
g delicate question are entitled to great consider.
: alton. ! respect their opinions, because their
better approximations for observation rive them
(. more intimate knowledge of the social, moral.
. and economical bearings of the system, than
g stranger can possibly acquire, and | can con.
cevc that they may be in some degree reconcil-
e ed to the undeniable evils of slavery by the per.
Z ception of compensatons, inappreciable by Nor.
2 thern men, by which wise and beneicen,
Providence (as in other cases of great and wide
{ Iy diifused wrong), mtigates those to northern
{ apprehension so unmixed evils. | know more.
, over, that some Southern men, who deplore and
q. acknowledge the wrong and the mischief in its
I full extent, see, or think they sec, in every
: scheme of abolition yet proposed, dangers to the
best interests OF both races certain and so ap.
pang, that they believe it better and wiser with
mastery inactivity" to look to the interposi
ton OF Providence alone for relief than to appeal
to any human counsel, however spccious. !
{ have, too. great respect for the prejudices of
birth and education, and for the feelings founded
on them, knowing, as long observation of the
world has taught me, that no man can wholly
renounce those prejudces, however erroneous,
or quite abjure his hereditary opinions upon re-
gion, or government, or social order, without
u
/. the better part of his own nature. Nor can |
/ forget, that this general subject, which with us
, of the North is question of political power, or
of abstract right, affecting in no degree our Sc
/. curity, and but remotely our social and pecuna-
ry interests, is to the people OF the South qnes
ton of the most vital interest, involving in its
various relations the permanence of long cher.
shed institutions, the economical arrangements
on which they depend for sustenance, and even
the safety of their firesides. 1t is not strange,
that those who have so great stake at hazard
should be peculiarly sensitive upon this topic,
and am disposed to regard with charity de-
gree of passon,te excitement in Southern gen.
, tlemen, when this subject is discussed, which
should deem censurable in Northern speakers.
For the humane Southern stakeholder, there.
. fore, so long as he confines his system and its
influences to his patritnonal limits, | have no
, rcproaches, though can neither assent to his
opinions, nor sympathizc in his feelings; and it
is only when he defends the abuses of slavery.
; or invokes the aid of our national government
TO extend over wide space the evils under
{ which he, perhaps unconsciously y, labors, that |
am bound to regard him as an antagonist.
, have consequently neither motive nor desire to
, discuss the moral or economical character OF
, slavery, but | must be excused for
; pausing moment to notice one in defence of
slavery as Il christian institution, which has
, been much oltener urged them answered.
? Forgetting that christianity discourages all
appeals to force, and is. empla,callv, tile reli.
gion of moral suason and non.resistance, the
e advocates Of Slavery triumphantly cite, as an
e explicit recognition and sanction ola scrvile re-
, latIon analogous to modern Slavery, those pas
/ sages of the New Testament, which enjoin up.
g on the servant obedience to the commands of the
mbatfft!efri B9t this argument is founded in mis-.
~; ~ :, a,lor scI,,,o. oc morality tho imno
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