eded. Vast numbers of our slaves might then be useless here. What
would become of them? We should implore the North to relieve us of them,
in part. Then would rise up the Northern antipathy to the negro,
stronger, probably, in the abolitionist than in the pro-slavery man; and
as we sought to remove the negroes northward and westward, the Free
States would invoke the Supreme Court, and the Dred Scott decision, and
then we should see, with a witness, whether the black man has 'any
rights' on free soil 'which the' original settlers 'are bound to
respect.' Think of bleeding Kansas, even, refusing to incorporate
negro-suffrage in her constitution, when left free to follow the
dictates of common sense, and a wise self-interest. I sometimes think
that that one thing, as a philosophical fact, is worth all the trouble
which Kansas has cost. It cannot be 'unholy prejudice against color.' It
is human nature asserting the laws which God has established in it.
"I never," said she, "find abolitionists quoting the whole of the verse
which says: 'and hath made of one blood all the nations of the earth.'"
"What," said I, "do they leave out?"
"'And hath fixed the bounds of their habitations,' are some of the next
words," said she.
But you will tire of this. I will resume my story. I will only say that
I told the lady that some of my gentleman friends would call her a
strong-minded woman.
* * * * *
Your letter made me think of something which happened to a lady, a
fellow-traveller of ours, a few weeks, ago. She came here to visit a
lady whose husband owns one hundred and fifty slaves. The morning after
she reached the plantation, as she told me, she was awaked by the
cracking of whips. She listened; human voices, raised above the ordinary
pitch, were mingling with the sounds. She lay till she could endure it
no longer. Coming down to the piazza, she saw a white man mending a
harness on a horse. "Those whips," said she, inquiringly,--"they have
rather interfer
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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.