know nothing about slavery mingled with our very life-blood. How
self-righteous they are! Our people, too, are perpetually quoting what
Thomas Jefferson said about slavery in his day. Pray, has there been no
progress? Why are we not permitted to hear what Southern men, as good as
Jefferson, now say about modern slavery?"
"My dear," said I, "perhaps you are not fully qualified as yet to judge
of this great subject in all its relations. The greatest and wisest men
are divided in opinion about it."
"Great subject!" said she, "please let me interrupt you; there is but
one side to it, I should judge, from reading our papers. What do some of
the 'greatest and wisest men,' on the other side, have to say for
themselves? Are they all 'friends of oppression,' 'enemies of freedom,'
'minions of the slave-power,' 'dough-faces'? Husband, I am thoroughly
disgusted. I have been compelled to have uncharitable feelings toward
thousands of people like this Southern lady; I confess I have really
hated them, as I hate men-stealers and pirates. This letter has
convinced me of my sin. It is like the Gospel in its effect upon me."
"But, my dear," said I, "recollect that good people may be in great
error, and we read, 'Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not
suffer sin upon him.' Now, to hold a fellow-being in bondage,--how can
it be otherwise than 'stupendous injustice'?"
"I wonder," said she, "if Kate feels that she is in 'bondage' to this
lady. I wonder if she would not think it cruel, if her mistress should
set her free."
"But it is wrong," said I, "to hold property in a human being, whether
the bondman be in favor of it or not."
"'Property!'" said she. "I should like to be such 'property,' if I were
a black woman. If it were wrong in the abstract," said she, "it might
not be in practice."
"Oh," said I, "what a pro-slavery idea that is! where did you learn it?"
"I learned it," said she, "at our corn-husking, when the Squire read
extracts from John Quincy Adams's speech about
Notka biograficzna
Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.