is ecclesiastical bodies to suffer their
remonstrances, appear, together with their subsequent withdrawal of
fellowship for the reason publicly assigned; namely, that the South will
not let them admonish her "in the Lord." Indeed, whatever may be true of
slavery, the South looks on the great body of zealous anti-slavery
people as being in as false and unnatural a state of excitement as the
Massachusetts people were in the times of witchcraft. A great delusion
is over the minds of many at the North, like one of our eastern
sea-fogs. It always makes a Southerner merry, when listening, in New
York or Boston, for example, to a lecture, if the speaker concludes a
sentence with some allusion to "freedom," and the people clap and stamp.
That the blood should tingle in our veins at so slight a cause, makes
him think that we are certainly in need of something worthy of our great
excitability, and that we are thankful for small favors in that way. He
does not think less than we of liberty where an occasion makes that name
and idea appropriate; but that the condition of his slaves should
reconsecrate for us all the old battle-cries of freedom, seems to him
pitiably weak. It shows him how incompetent we are to deal with the
acknowledged evils of slavery; and there are those at the South who are
stirred up by us to take extreme views of an opposite kind, which good
people there very generally deplore.
A Southern lady here tells me that some time since, being on a visit at
the North, she received through the post-office anonymous letters with
extracts from newspapers containing little items of woe, declared to
have been experienced at the South, with here and there delirious abuse
of slave-holders and frenzied words about freedom. She could have
matched every one of them, she said, with wife-murders at the North,
during her visit. In dealing with people like the slaves, of course men
of brutal passions, provoked by their stupidity and negligence, or
exasperated by their crimes, and, in cases of u
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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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