Letters to Chas, O´conor
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Excerpt from Letters to Chas, O´conor: The Destruction of the Union Is Emancipation When you delivered your speech, a few months ago, at the Academy of Music, I embraced the occasion to express to you my admiration of the candor and fairness with which you had treated the subject of American slavery. I thought the ground you occupied in that speech altogether worthy of your eminent reputation as a logician. It was something new to find a Northern man willing to look the question fairly in the face, and I confess I thought you a little heroic when you discussed it in the light alone of facts and of reason. I believe with you, on the subject of American slavery, that there is no middle ground to be occupied. It is right and just that the black race should be held in bondage, or it is wrong and sinful. It is right in my judgment; because we have two unequal races, which cannot live together in harmony in any other relation than that of master and servant. Safety to society demands the continnance of that relation, as it demands and justifies, on the same principle, the scheme of criminal jurisprudence, even to the sacrifice of life; as it demands and justifies an aggressive war, the prosecution of which often leads to the wholesale slaughter of the most patriotic and chivalrous of the people. Safety to society fully justifies American slavery, because an act of freedom would be the signal of an "irrepressible conflict" indeed, between the races, which would end in the destruction of the blacks, and the demoralization of the whites. The United States occupy a peculiar position in connection with the negroes. The latter are distributed over about half the States of the Union. While England maintained slavery it had only a colonial existence. The Imperial Government recognized it only in its colonies. When it was abolished in the West Indies, the act of emancipation left the home people as free of the black race as they were before. All, or nearly all, the evils and sacrifices of the act fell upon the colonies. It was there that the conflict of races commenced. Spain maintains slavery in Cuba and Puerto Rico; not at home. Brazil is a slave State; but the gulf between the white and black races in Brazil is narrow indeed when compared with that which separates the whites and blacks of this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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