Abolitionism Exposed!: Proving the the Principles of Abolitionism are Injurious to the Slaves Themselves, Destructive to This Nation, and Contrary to the Express Commands of God — John Shaqi
Abolitionism Exposed!: Proving the the Principles of Abolitionism are Injurious to the Slaves Themselves, Destructive to This Nation, and Contrary to the Express Commands of GodSleigh, W. W. (William Willcocks)
Religion
Abolitionism Exposed!: Proving the the Principles of Abolitionism are Injurious to the Slaves Themselves, Destructive to This Nation, and Contrary to the Express Commands of God
Sleigh, W. W. (William Willcocks)
Abolitionists; African Americans -- Colonization; Slavery -- United States
"But the most interesting spectacle is yet before you. It is
to be witnessed in the Infant School Room, nicely fitted up
and supplied with the customary cards and other appurtenances.
Here, every day in the week, you may find 25 or 30 children
neatly clad, and wearing bright and happy faces. And as you
notice their correct deportment, hear their unhesitating
replies to the questions proposed, and above all, when they
unite their sweet voices in their touching songs, if your
heart is not affected and your eyes do not fill, you are the
hardest-hearted and driest-eyed visitor that has ever been
there. But who is their teacher? Their mistress, a lady whose
amiable christian character, and most gifted and accomplished
manners are surpassed by none. From day to day--month to
month, and year to year, she has cheerfully left her splendid
halls and circle of friends to visit her school room, where,
standing up before those young immortals, she trains them in
the way in which they should go, and leads them to Him who
said, 'suffer little children to come unto me.'
"From the Infant School Room, we will walk through a beautiful
lawn half a mile, to a pleasant grove commanding a view of
miles in extent. Here is a brick chapel rising for the
accommodation of this interesting family--sufficiently large
to receive 2 or 300 hearers. When completed, in beauty and
convenience it will be surpassed by few churches in the
Southern country.
"On the plantation you might see also many other things of
great interest. Here a negro is the overseer. Marriages are
regularly contracted. No negro is sold, except as a punishment
for bad behaviour, and a dreaded one it is. None is bought
save for the purpose of uniting families. Here you will hear
no clanking of chains, no cracking of whips; (I have never
seen a blow struck on the estate,) and here last, but not
least, you will find a flourishing Temperance Society
embracing almost every individual on the premises. And yet the
'Christianity of the South is a chain-forging, a
whip-platting--marriage discouraging, Bible-withholding
Christianity!'
"I have confined myself to a single plantation. But I might
add many interesting facts in regard to others, and the state
of feeling in general, but I forbear.
Yours, &c.
A NEW-ENGLAND MAN.
"He would now connect the peculiar and local facts of the
preceding statement, with the whole community of slave-holders
in the same state; and show by competent and disinterested
testimony the real and common state of things. The following
extracts were from a letter printed in the New York Observer
of July 25, 1835.
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