Autographs for Freedom, by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thirty-five Other Eminent Writers
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Autographs for Freedom, by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thirty-five Other Eminent Writers
Antislavery movements -- United States; Slavery -- United States
We have also another material aid in the clerical teachings of
pro-slavery priests and preachers. We shall hereafter have to thank
Dr. Spring, of New York; Dr. Parker, of Philadelphia; Dr. Stuart, of
Andover; Dr. Spencer, of Brooklyn; the Right Rev. Bishop Hopkins, of
Vermont; and a host of other reverends; for their advocacy of the
cause of slavery. This outrage on Christianity by its own ministers
has shocked the whole Christian world. Even the planters despise
these sycophants. To hear men in the sacred desk, and in the name of
the Redeemer of the world, advocate a system which cherishes
ignorance, vice, debauchery, dishonesty, and murder, out-Herods
anything that was ever taught by the most depraved heathens and
infidels. Even Pagans had their dark groves and other midnight
recesses for their sensual orgies. No atheist or barbarian has yet
taught that the infant should be torn from the breast of its mother,
and sold like a swine to the murderous dealer in human flesh. It was
left for the 19th century, and doctors of divinity in a Christian
garb, to arrive at this decree of blasphemy, impiety, and
immorality. Well, we thank them for their teachings, we congratulate
them for their boldness in iniquity, and we will repeat their
sayings until we make every ear in Christendom tingle with their
presumption and inhumanity.
We have thus briefly shown that the friends of the slave have every
thing on their side, and may now make a noble stand in the cause of
liberty. Providence is remarkably appearing on their behalf, and
pointing out the path of duty and victory. “Is not the Lord gone up
before us.” As far as England is concerned, the odium of an
anti-slavery movement has passed away. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” has
rekindled the zeal of the lukewarm, and baptized with holy fire
myriads who before cared nothing for the negro. Let us only do our
duty, and this foul blot on humanity and daring insult to the Deity
shall ere long become the history of a by-gone age; and a few years
hence the system shall be deemed too monstrous to be believed but as
a myth of some misanthrope who felt a malignant pleasure in
libelling his species.
[ENTERED AT STATIONERS’ HALL.]
John Cassell, Ludgate-hill.
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Footnote 1:
A son of that distinguished friend of humanity, WILLIAM WILBERFORCE.
Footnote 2:
“Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the
midst of the noon-day; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that
wandereth. Let my outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to
them, from the face of the spoiler.”—Isaiah xvi. 3, 4.
Footnote 3:
“Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not
to me.”—_Jesus Christ._ Matt. xxv. 45.
Footnote 4:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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