The Power Duty, and Necessity of Destroying Slavery in the Rebel States (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Power Duty, and Necessity of Destroying Slavery in the Rebel States "Down with slavery" is becoming the motto of every loyal, patriotic American. As Roman constancy, courage and persistence finally triumphed over Carthage, so will American constancy, courage and determination triumph over slavery. When the Son of God proclaimed a common Father and the universal brotherhood of man, He enunciated the great moral principle which brought on the irrepressible conflict with slavery. It is difficult, it seems to me, for a man to recognize fully the truth of His teaching, in the light of this rebellion, without becoming an opponent of slavery. Just to the extent that Christianity prevails, slavery will disappear. The glorious light of Christianity must fade from the earth, or slavery cease. It is a relict of a barbarous and a savage age, and, thank God, it is melting rapidly away before the light of the nineteenth century. The Progress Of Liberty. It would be a most interesting task to retrace the footprints of liberty, amidst the dust and rubbish which have gathered over the history of the past; to follow the ofttimes obliterated pathway by which, since Christ´s sermon on the mount, freedom regulated by law has been developed into its present majestic and grand proportions. I hesitate not to affirm that all that there is which is valuable in republican and free institutions has its foundation in the sublime morality and broad humanity of the Bible. The glorious theme of man´s struggle through the ages, for liberty, is yet to be written. Historians have told us much of courts and camps, of the changes of dynasties, of battles by land and on the sea; but who among them has traced the history of man´s progress, and his struggles, through the ages, for "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?" This history, even as presented by that nation and race most interesting to us - the English - has yet to be fully written. The historian has yet to write who has gone back and recorded for us the dawn of freedom among the early Saxons, its memorable triumph on the held of Runnymede, its struggles through the reigns of the Henrys and the Edwards, its fierce and bloody contest with Charles the First, the Roundhead against the Cavalier; thence to the Petition of Right, pausing with sad steps at the grave of Hampden and the scaffolds of Russell and Algernon Sydney; thence to the Revolution of 1688, the gradual but sure advance to the noble efforts of Fox and Erskine and Curran to secure freedom of speech, liberty of the press, and trial by jury, down to the crowning glory of the English constitution, when Lord Mansfield electrified the island of Great Britain by proclaiming, in the case of the negro Somerset, "that slaves cannot breathe in England." God speed the hour when the Chief Justice of our land may truthfully announce the same fact. 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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