An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States, Issued by an Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women
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Excerpt from An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States, Issued by an Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women: Held by Adjournments From the 9th to the 12th of May, 1837 They know full well, that this terrific Upas must fall when the axe of free discussion is laid at its root. "From how many statesmen at the South has not the confession been extorted - extorted by the remorse and fear which they could neither dissipate nor conceal - that the infamy with which they are already branded by all the philanthropists of Christendom, was fast becoming insupportable! The plunder of our goods we do not dread, they exclaim; but what is more to be deprecated, the loss of character. What can our goods be worth, while ice are constrained to bear the scorn and execration of the civilized world, as a nest of pirates?" A similar sentiment was uttered by John C. Calhoun, in speaking of his Southern opponents, in the session of Congress 1835, in the Senate. "Do they expect the Abolitionists will resort to arms, and commence a crusade to liberate our slaves by force?" Is this what they mean when they speak of the attempt to abolish slavery? If so, let me tell our friends of the South who differ from us, that the war which the Abolitionists wage against us, is of a very different character, and far more effective; it is waged not against our lives, but our character." Gen. Duff Green, the Editor of the United States Telegraph, and the great champion of "Southern rights," has expressed the same views: "We believe we have most to fear from the organized action upon the consciences and fear of the slaveholders themselves, from the insinuation of their (abolitionists) dangerous heresies into our schools, our pulpits, and our domestic circles. It is only by alarming the consciences of the weak and feeble, and diffusing among our own people a morbid sensibility on the question of slavery, that the abolitionists can accomplish their object." Here then is the unequivocal testimony of Southerners as to what they expect to be the influence of free discussion. Has this expectation been realized? Has the conscience of the slaveholder been reached? In answer to these enquiries, we quote from a work recently published by James Smylie, a Presbyterian minister of the Amite Presbytery. 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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