outh, and whether we at the North are not more displeasing in the sight
of God for the things which are said and done there, in connection with
anti-slavery, than the South with all the sins and evils incident to
slave-holding. I am coming to this belief.
The people who most frequently excite my commiseration are the free
blacks. They are "scattered and peeled." The Free States dread their
coming; they cannot rise in the Slave States. Even the slaves look down
upon them, sometimes. "Who are you?" said a slave to a free black, in my
hearing; "you don't belong to anybody!" Some States have given them
notice to quit, within a specified time, or they must be sold. Some here
insist that slavery is the only proper condition for the blacks, and
they would reduce them back to bondage. Others remonstrate at this as
cruel. Surely it is a choice of evils for them, to be free, or to be
slaves, if they remain here. There is one thought that affords a ray of
consolation,--they are better off, in either condition, than they once
were in Africa. It is unquestionable to my mind that their relation to
the whites, even in bondage, is, as the general rule, mercy to them,
while they are on the same soil with the whites. Allow it to be
theoretically wrong to be a slave,--it is, under existing circumstances,
protection and a blessing, compared with any arrangement which has yet
been proposed. I have not sufficient patience to argue with those, North
or South, who contend for slavery as a normal condition. I should be
called at the North "pro-slavery;" but the North is in a passion on this
subject. I am not, and I never can be, an advocate for this relation, in
itself, but as a present necessity.
I once heard a speaker at an anti-slavery meeting at home say, "They
tell us how elevated the blacks are, how intelligent, how pious; that
shows how fit they are for freedom, how wrong it is to hold such people
in bondage. As much as you raise the slaves in our opinion, you deepen
the guilt of the slave-holder."
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.