parting between a slave-mother and her children, sold and separated for
life, is an occurrence as familiar as the separation of animals and
their young, and no more regarded by slave-holders than divorcements in
the barn-yard. This being so, it must follow that when a slave-babe
dies, the only sorrow in the hearts of the white owners is such as they
feel when a colt is kicked to death or a heifer is choked. This must be
so, if all is true which is meant to be conveyed when we are told so
often at the North that the slave is a mere "chattel." Therefore I am
puzzled by this lady's tears for the mother of this little black babe.
She says of the mother of that poor little negro infant slave, "I knew
she did not dream what the parting would be." I repeat it, my theory of
slavery, that which I hold in common with all enlightened friends of
freedom, requires that this lady should have a debased, imbruted nature,
for she owns human beings, has made property of God's image in man. And
now I feel creeping over me a dreadful temptation to think that one may
hold fellow-creatures in bondage and yet be really humane, gentle, and
as good as a Northerner! What fearful changes in politics would come
about should our people believe this! It cannot be that our great party
of Freedom can ever go to pieces and disappoint the hopes of the world;
yet this would be the case, if the feelings stirred by this letter
should gain a general acceptance. I cannot gainsay the facts. Here is
the letter. May it never see the light; people are much more influenced
by such things than by mere logic, and oh, what would befall the nation
should our Northern excitement against slavery cease, and should we
leave the whole subject to the South and to God! "What if people should
come to believe that the Southerners--fifteen or sixteen States of this
Union--are as humane, Christian, and conscientious as the North!
Who will resolve my painful doubts? I do crave to know what possible
motive this lady could have had in taking s
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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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