ople. If one who had never heard of "slavery"
should be set down here, the Northern idea of "bondage" would not soon
occur to him.
In the Presbytery which includes Charleston, S.C., there are two
thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine church-members, and of these one
thousand six hundred-and thirty-seven, more than one half, are colored.
In State Street, Mobile, there is a colored Methodist Church who pay
their minister, from their own money, twelve hundred dollars a year. Not
long since they took up a voluntary contribution for Home Missions,
amounting to one hundred and twenty dollars. Their preacher was sent by
the Conference, according to rotation, into another field, and the
blacks presented him with a valuable suit of clothes.
You see things here, good and evil, side by side, and mixed up together,
one thing counterbalancing another. If you reason theoretically upon
this subject, as you do "about the moon," to quote from your letter, it
is enough to make one almost a lunatic, and I do not wonder that some of
our good people at the North, who pore over this subject in this way,
are on the borders of insanity.
My great mistake at the North with regard to this subject of slavery
was, I reasoned about it in the abstract, instead of considering it in
connection with those who are slaves under our laws, bound up with us in
our civil constitution. Things might be true or false, right or wrong,
in connection with the enslavement of a race who had never been slaves,
which cannot be applied to the colored people of the South. Hence, the
arguments and the appeals founded on the wrongfulness of reducing you or
me to slavery are obviously misapplied when used to urge the
emancipation of these slaves. Moreover, my thoughts about slavery were
governed by my associations with the word _slave_, in its worst sense.
This is wholly wrong, and it is the source of most of our mistakes on
this subject.
Dreadful things happen here to some of the slaves in the hands of
passionate men. One slav
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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.