Review of That Portion of the Ninth Section of President Wayland´s Valuable Treatise on the Limitations of Human Responsibility
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Excerpt from Review of That Portion of the Ninth Section of President Wayland´s Valuable Treatise on the Limitations of Human Responsibility: In Which He Gives His Views of Our Duty as Citizens of the United States, in Relation to the Slavery Question I cannot but feel some respect for my own judgement, on finding myself an admirer of Dr. Wayland as a writer. I think him distinguished, among the writers of our country, for depth of thought and a happy style of expression. As a firm friend to the prosperity of our University it is gratifying to me to see a man of his calibre at the head of it. I have attentively and repeatedly read his Limitations of Human Responsibility with much pleasure, and, I hope some profit. I think it a valuable treatise, because it has thrown light upon a branch of ethics, a knowledge of which has a direct and practical application to the daily duties of life. I assent to the soundness of the principles here laid down and the limitations of them here pointed out, with scarcely an exception, or even hesitation. But when the author comes to make his application of these principles and their limitations to us and our duty, as citizens of the U. States, in relation to slavery in this country, I find myself unable to see the entire correctness of his application, and beg leave to offer some reasons for this inability. It is my intention to do this without any feelings or expressions inconsistent with the highest personal esteem and respect. Those abolitionists who condemn this treatise in toto, stand, I think, much in their own light, and injure their own cause. Those injure it still more who affect to ridicule the book, or impute to its author improper motives; because, to use these weapons against a work of such elevated decorum and freedom from personalties as this, seems an admission that it cannot be otherwise answered. "I think it evident, (says Dr. Wayland, page 169,) that, as citizens of the United States, we have no power whatever to abolish slavery in the Southern States, or to do any thing of which the direct intention is to abolish it." I cannot assent to these propositions. I admit that, as citizens of the United States, in the strict sense of those terms, we derive all our powers of national action, by our official agents, from the Federal Constitution. But I maintain that the Constitution has expressly conferred upon us, "as citizens of the United States, the power to abolish slavery in the Southern States," by direct national action in one instance, and to do much towards abolishing it in those states by indirect national action in several instances. The fifth article of the Constitution empowers Congress to propose an amendment abolishing slavery in all the States. Such an amendment, when ratified by three-fourths of the States, would become a part of the Constitution. At the last session of Congress, John Q. Adams proposed an amendment, which provides for the gradual abolition of slavery in every slave State, as well as territory, in the Union. 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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