the
Episcopalians,--who, more than other Northern ministers, are remarkably
free from ultraisms.
"Concerning the truckle-cart, 'we would say this,' that unquestionably
'the moral power' of the incident was all which the writer assumes, but
its 'logical sequences' 'we utterly deny.' Slavery is evil, and only
evil, and that continually; now, to infer that agreeable relations can
subsist between the children of masters and the children of slaves under
the 'immense, malignant, and all-pervading influence of slavery,'
abhorred of Heaven and all good men, does violence to all sound
principles of reasoning, and is at war with 'the manifest rules of
Providence.'
"And as to the three girls 'we are prepared to say' that the author 'did
not look deep enough' into the philosophy of human motives under the
controlling power of slavery. For slavery makes men improvident, and
their children also; (see 'Judge Jay,' 'Weld on Slavery,' etc.) These
white girls, therefore, probably had no money in their pockets; it was
the time of recess; they were hungry; the black child we presume had
money in her pocket, for by the authoress's own showing (in the story of
a slave changing a gold piece for the landlord), slaves may have money
of their own. Had our authoress followed her trio down to the
confectioner's, there she might have seen these white children cajoling
the poor black, and making her treat them; in preparation for which they
affected to put their arms around her; but, in the true diabolical
spirit of slavery, it was only to devour.
"We have no space to enter philosophically into the instruction afforded
us by the old negro and the schoolboys; but there is deep meaning in it,
which the true friends of the slave, who may read it, will do well to
ponder. The old negro is the prophetic representation of his
down-trodden race, crying with bewildered accents, he heeds not where,
'Go to school! boys; go to school!' Let a united North echo back his
words, suiting their political action to them, and
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.