lecturer is to be determined by the market value, at the
time, of a bushel of wheat. This is a fair standard for the unit of
measure.
In arguing with one who should insist that the abuses in slavery are a
reason for breaking up the institution in this country, I should feel
justified in maintaining that there are as many instances of a happy
relation between, master and servant in the Southern country as there
are happy marriages in the same number of households anywhere. Let there
be four millions of an inferior, dependent race mixed up with a superior
race, anywhere on earth, and of course, while human nature is what it
is, there will be hardships, wrong-doings, oppressions, and barbarisms.
At the North, we get scraps of anguish in the newspapers relating to
hardships at the South; and many pore upon them till they make
themselves half-crazed. All the circumstances serving to qualify the
narrative are sometimes withheld, and the stories are told with dramatic
art. There is sorrow enough everywhere to furnish material for such kind
of writing, especially to those who make it their calling, or find it
for their interest, to publish it. But the goings-on of life, at the
South, with its alleviations and comforts, the practical mitigations of
an oppressive system, theoretical evils qualified by difference of
color, constitution, and history, and all the goodness and mercy which
Christianity and a well-ordered state of society provide, we at the
North do not see. Nor do our people consider that running away, and the
complaints of the slaves, are partly chargeable to the discontent and
restlessness of human nature; but we seem to take it for granted that
every one who flees from the South is as though he had escaped from a
prison-ship.
While at the North, I remember reading an article, signed with initials,
in a prominent Massachusetts magazine, which contained this sentence:
"Arsenic is universally in possession of the negroes; but it is
considered the part of wisdom, where families
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.