ngovernable anger,
venting their displeasure upon their negroes under slight or merely
imaginary affronts, give occasion to tales of distress which are nowhere
mourned over more deeply than at the South. These cases are the natural
results of a superior and inferior class of society, standing in the
relation, the one to the other, of proprietor and dependant, and such
evils are not peculiar to this institution. Human nature is the same
everywhere. The South is willing to have the abuses of irresponsible
power among them compared with abuses, discomforts, disadvantages
elsewhere. Grant that an owner may abuse his liberty; ownership leads to
more of care and protection than of abuse and cruelty. The slaves are
here; the question is not, What would be the best possible condition for
these people under the sun, but, What is best for them, being on this
soil. "Set them all free," is the answer of some. Half the ministers at
the North every Sabbath pray for the slaves thus: "Break every yoke; let
the oppressed go free." If this means, Give the slaves their liberty,
this would be their most direful calamity; they would be chased away
from every free state, in process of time, and the Dred Scott decision
would be invoked, even in Massachusetts, by its present most bitter
opposers, and in its most misrepresented forms, as a defence of the
American white race against the blacks. "Set them free and hire them!"
is the reply of others. This, among other effects, would make them a far
more degraded people than they now are. Slavery keeps them identified
with the whites; they are more respectable and respected by far, in this
relation, than they can be, in the circumstances of the case, if they
are detached from the whites. There is no expression which conveys a
more absolute error than this, and we often meet with it: "He ceased to
be a slave, and became a man." I read lately the report of a lecture at
the North, by an eminent gentleman, of great moral worth, and highly
respected. He said, "A man c
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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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