n some one of the party appears
to falter. If there were not something truly good in connection with
slavery amid all its evils, I think such men would not oppose it.
Pray, who are these gentlemen, and who are their extremely zealous
anti-slavery friends of more respectable standing, that they should have
such immense instalments of sympathy and pity for the "poor slave"?
Their neighbors are as susceptible as they to every form of human
sorrow; they know as much, their judgments are as sound, their motives
are as good as theirs. Had these zealous people made new discoveries,
or, were the subject of slavery new, we might give them credit for being
on the hill-tops, while we were in the vales. This passionate sympathy,
on the part of some, for "the down-trodden," as they call the negroes,
is not like zeal for a theological, or a political, or a scientific,
doctrine, which would justify its adherents in rebuking the error and
indifference of others; for if slavery be as they represent it, the
proofs of it must be as self-evident as starvation. What if a class of
men among us should rage against those who do not contribute largely to
the Syrian sufferers, as the zealous anti-slavery people reproach and
even revile those who do not see slavery with their eyes? We should then
say, "Friends, who are you, that you should claim to have all the
virtuous sensibility?"
But more than this,--I doubt, I venture to deny, and that on
philosophical grounds, the true philanthropy of these people. For true
love and kindness always create something of their own kind where they
have full power. Are there any words or acts of love, kindness,
gentleness, mercy, toward others, in the speeches and doings of the
zealous anti-slavery people?
I wish that you had been with me, one evening, in a corner of the
Methodist meeting-house, where I sat and enjoyed the slaves'
prayer-meeting. I had been filled with distress that day by reading, in
Northern papers, the doings and speeches at excited meetings called t
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