Discourse on the True Nature of Freedom and Slavery
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Excerpt from Discourse on the True Nature of Freedom and Slavery: Delivered Before the Washington Society of the New Jerusalem, in View of the One Hundred and Eighteenth Anniversary of Washington´s Birth Those who heard this discourse delivered, will hardly recognize it in its printed form. The author rarely speaks his sermons precisely as, he has written them. Influx is proportioned to efllux. Good or ill reception in an audience wonderfully opens or shuts up a public speakers mind. And he has found new trains of thought suggested in the pulpit, which had never presented themselves in the study; or written thoughts have widely expanded, or run in varied channels, in delivery; according to the auditory´s peculiar states of receptivity. In the present instance, he was led repeatedly into extemporaneous remarks, which, evaporating with the heat of somewhat fervid feeling, it has been impossible for him to recal in the cooler and calmer moments of reflection since. Yet he has wished to present at least the substance of those extemporaneous remarks in the printed discourse: and as prolixity is not so objectionable in one that is to be read as in one that is spoken, he has greatly extended what he said in answer to the senatorial argument against african slavery in this country being an evil. He has also put in those parts of the written discourse which had to be omitted for want of time. And he has added a few bottom notes. Moreover, he has printed the discourse on pica instead of small pica type, as he proposed in his circular for subscriptions. These causes have a good deal swelled its size and altered its form; but he trusts it will not be less acceptable on that account. Something may be said respecting the occasion for writing this discourse. The author had been several times asked, by a most worthy and valued member of our church in South Carolina, for his opinion on the propriety of a Newchurchman´s holding slaves and continuing to reside in a slave state in violation of conscientious scruples. This led him to canvass the subject of slavery in his own mind for a good while. Subsequently removing from Pennsylvania to Maryland, a slave state, and residing in Baltimore upwards of five years, he had his attention again called to this subject by further correspondence with his southern friend. And the wide-spread agitation of the slavery question during the few past years, splitting up as it did some of the leading denominations of the old christian church, and thus giving it an imposing ecclesiastical and religious aspect, made him feel it his duty to discourse on this subject to his own congregation. This explains why he attempts to show the duty of Newchurchmen in regard to 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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