Premium Questions on Slavery, Each Admitting of a Yes or No Answer
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Excerpt from Premium Questions on Slavery, Each Admitting of a Yes or No Answer: Addressed to the Editors of the New York Independent and New York Evangelist Some months since, the New York Evangelist put the question, "Is slavery right or wrong?" to the New York Observer, and called for "a clear and positive opinion." The New York Independent seconded the Evangelist by offering to pay into the treasury of the American Board of Foreign Missions the sum of two hundred dollars, if the New York Observer would transfer to its columns, and answer with a simple yes or no, each of the following eight questions, viz: 1. Is it wrong to sell human beings, guiltless of crime? 2. Is it wrong to hold human beings as property, subject to be bought and sold? 3. Is it wrong to separate, by force or law, husbands and wives, parents and children, when neither crime, nor vice, nor insanity in either of the parties calls for such separation? 4. Have slaves an equal right with other persons to marry according to their own choice, and should such marriage, when contracted, be held sacred and inviolable? 5. Has a slave woman an absolute right to her chastity, and is the master who violates that chastity guilty of a crime? 6. Have slaves a right to read the Bible, and is it a crime to forbid them to be taught to read? 7. Is the system of slavery as it exists in the Southern States a blessing to the country, which should be cherished and perpetuated by national legislation? 8. Is the system of slavery as by law established in the Southern States morally right? It is easy to see why the editor of the New York Observer might have regarded the proposal to answer such questions by a simple yes or no, as unfair. The editors of the Evangelist, however, said, "The proposal seems to us a very fair one." 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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