ould once have
said, on reading this letter,--This is slavery. Here is a view of life
at the South. As a traveller accidentally catches a sight of a family
around their table, and domestic life gleams upon him for a moment; as
the opening door of a church suffers a few notes of the psalm to reach
the ear of one at a distance, this letter, written evidently amidst
household duties and cares, discloses, in a touching manner, the
domestic relations of Southern families and their servants wherever
Christianity prevails. It is one strain of the ordinary music of life in
ten thousands of those households, falling accidentally upon our ears,
and giving us truthful, artless impressions, such as labored statements
and solemn depositions would not so well convey, and which theories,
counter-statements, arguments, and invectives never can refute. Our
senior pastor would say that the letter is like the Epistles of
John,--not a doctrinal exposition, but a breathing forth of the spirit
which the evangelical history had inspired. I have come to know more,
however, than I did when I could have had such amiable but unenlightened
feelings. I have read the "Key to Uncle Tom" and the "Barbarism of
Slavery."
Still, I am sorely puzzled. "Kate," she says, "wanted to have it go, it
had been sick so long; but I knew, when she said it, she did not know
what the parting would be."
"The parting!" Has she read our Northern abstracts and versions of the
Dred Scott Decision, and are there, in her view, any rights in a negro
which she is bound to respect? Has she not heard that the Supreme Court
of the United States has absolved her from all her feelings of humanity?
"The parting!" Where has she lived not to know how, according to our
lecturers, families are parted at the auction-block in the Southern
States without the least compunction? We are constantly told,--has she
not heard it?--that the slave at the South is a mere "chattel," and that
a slave-child is bought and sold as recklessly as a calf, and that a
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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