and exhortations as to the duty of masters.
But we have a way, at the North, of delivering over our Southern
brethren to supposed terrible liabilities in their relation to the
slaves. "They are sleeping on a volcano;" "they keep weapons under their
pillows;" "they are always in fear." And when a servile insurrection
takes place, many close their eyes and lift their hands, and say,
"Perhaps the day of retribution is come! They have been 'sinning against
the Northern conscience;' they have been resisting our well-meant
efforts for their good; we would not stir up the slaves against them,"
(some kindly say,) "but if they rise, did not Jefferson say, 'There is
not an attribute of the Almighty that would take part with the whites?'"
Thus we prefer to take Jefferson's opinion on this subject, though
hundreds as good and wise as he, and quite as decided in their
acceptance of the Christian religion, differ totally from him. In
strictly political matters, many of the same people who love to quote
Jefferson against modern slave-holders, are of opinion that time and
experience give modern statesmen some advantages in their judgments. As
to Jefferson's oft-quoted remark, above cited, it appears to me that if
the Almighty has anywhere set the seal of his divine blessing, clear and
broad, it is on the Christian influence of our Southern friends upon
this colored race.
It is humiliating to me, in looking back to the North, to see how
injudicious and weak we are in pouring out our sympathy upon a fugitive
slave, without discrimination. The lecture before the Boston audience,
already mentioned, contains a perfect illustration of Northern credulity
in the case of fugitive slaves. The lecturer tells us that while reading
the printed report of Mr. Everett's Oration at the inauguration of the
Webster statue, a fugitive slave appeared at his door, and, baring his
breast and back, showed him the marks of the branding-iron, and the
scars from the lash. At the sight, he says, the paper dropped from his
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.