American Slavery In Its Moral And Political Aspects PDF Download

Excerpt from American Slavery: In Its Moral and Political Aspects It is alike due the reader and the writer of the following pages, to explain that they have grown to their present form and size without an original plan. Mr. Clay's speech in the Senate last winter, gave the author an inviting text book, to express, in the form of a review, his own sentiments and opinions. He availed of the occasion to do so, through the rare and liberal indulgence of the three political papers of the village of Oswego, and was thereby enabled, in a series of numbers, written under the signature of Philalethes, (a lover of truth.) to provoke the readers of these papers to a manly debate of the principles and measures of the American Anti-Slavery Society. The writer failed in drawing out such a discussion as he anticipated, and nothing was educed in the shape of controversial dispute, bat what is sufficiently noticed and explained in the review itself, to enable the reader to judge of its character and bearing. Shortly after completing the numbers of the review, a resolution was adopted at a mass meeting of the abolitionists of Oswego County, that they be published in a pamphlet form. In complying with this request, the writer, in order to render the work more complete in its moral aspect, appended the Chapter showing the dereliction of the American Church from its responsibilities on this subject, and while writing that Chapter, it occurred to him that the root of the controversy between political abolitionists and their opponents, shot deeper, and had a wider circuit than had yet been explored. This induced him to sketch, in the concluding Chapter, the origin and history of what he considers a heresy of mountainous dimensions, with which Christianity has been afflicted since the days of Constantine. With this explanation of the somewhat inarchitectural style in which this work is put together, the author has no apologies to make to the public, nor any indulgence to crave of the pen or the tongue of the severest criticism. He puts his proper name on the title page; not certainly to give weight to the doctrines advanced, for this humble work is the Alpha, and will, he presumes, be the Omega of his authorship; but with a view of yielding to the public that justice which he considers due them, from the professed lover of truth in its undisguised simplicity, and of identifying what little personal responsibility he may possess, with the injurious tendencies which he doubts not many honest, but indolent minds will deem the work instrumental in effecting. 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.