th all the love of
the professed philanthropist, he would still be permitted to toil
and bleed; for now that the route to Canada has been closed, there
is no alternative but to take them to their own bosoms."
Compare with this the condition of the free blacks in South Carolina.
The amount of property held by them is $1,600,000; their annual taxes,
$27,000; and the free blacks own slaves to the amount of $300,000 in
value.
The above statements teach us that any attempts to force the Southern
slaves away from their present relation, are in violation of the laws of
Providence concerning them. If they become free in a natural way, and
can provide for themselves, or be provided for, it is well; otherwise,
the South, and their present relation to the white race, are the bounds
of their habitation fixed for them by an all-wise God, till his purpose
concerning them as a race shall be made manifest. The people of the Free
States ought to thank God that the South is willing to keep the colored
people. Instead of inflaming our passions against the abstract
wrongfulness of holding fellow-men in bondage, we should consider that
theoretical justice to the slaves as a whole would be practical
inhumanity. The destiny of the colored race here is a dark problem. But
it is not for us to penetrate the future. When God is ready to finish
his purposes with regard to their continuance with us, He will open a
way for their liberation; in the mean time it is our duty to protect
them from their own improvidence and from the neglect and degradation
which they would suffer at the hands of the Free States. Instead of
aiding slaves to escape, or rejoicing when we hear of runaways, I say we
should feel grateful, on our own account, and for the slaves, that the
South is willing to harbor them, and we ought to consider that the very
best thing to be done for them is to encourage the South in treating
them well, mitigating their trials and sorrows, and, in short, complying
with the Apostle's doctrine
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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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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.