Remarks on Slavery and Emancipation (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Remarks on Slavery and Emancipation There are those among us who seem to think the time erelong coming, when, by the gentle but irresistible influence of natural causes, slavery will cease to exist in any civilized land. Slavery, they say, is an institution containing within itself the elements of its own dissolution, and, do what we may, the time will soon come, when all men, whatsoever be their color, will rejoice in the light of liberty. There are many, also, who think it doubtful, whether any steps taken by the inhabitants of the non-slaveholding States of the Union, to promote this much desired result, will not rather retard, than accelerate it. To some of these propositions I give a free assent; to others, only a qualified one. In the institution of slavery as established by law and custom in our Southern States, it is not easy to see any elements of dissolution, unless this be a violent one, produced by reaction on the part of the slave. If it is meant that there is a point, beyond which human nature will not endure restraint or coercion, and that slavery upon its present system will at some period or other reach it, and that then the slave will free himself by his own power to will and to do; of this the possibility is admitted. But the existence of elements of dissolution, such as these, presents no argument in favor of inaction or indifference; but, on the contrary, a very strong one for attention and timely provision. There is, indeed, nothing in the laws or the public sentiment of the slaveholding States of the Union, which betokens, either at a near or a distant period, the peaceful termination of slavery. 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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