Cotton is king, and pro-slavery arguments : $b comprising the writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright, on this important subject
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Cotton is king, and pro-slavery arguments : $b comprising the writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright, on this important subject
Scott, Dred, 1809-1858; Slavery -- Justification; Slavery -- United States; United States -- Fugitive slave law (1850)
Moral relations of Slavery--Relations of the
consumer of Slave labor products to the
system--Grand error of all Anti-Slavery
effort--Law of _particeps criminis_--Daniel
O'Connell--_Malum in se_ doctrine--Inconsistency
of those who hold it--English
Emancipationists--Their commercial
argument--Differences between the position of
Great Britain and the United States--Preaching
versus practice by Abolitionists--Cause of their
want of influence over the Slaveholder--Necessity
of examining the question--Each man to be judged
by his own standard--Classification of opinions in
the United States, in regard to the morality of
Slavery--Three Views--A case in
illustration--Apology of _per se_ men for using
Slave grown products insufficient--Law relating to
"confusion of goods"--_Per se_ men _participes
criminis_ with Slaveholders--Taking Slave grown
products under _protest_ absurd--World's Christian
Evangelical Alliance--Amount of Slave labor Cotton
in England at that moment--Pharisaical
conduct--The Scotchman taking his wife under
protest--Anecdote--American Cotton more acceptable
to Englishmen than Republican principles--Secret
of England's policy toward American Slavery--The
case of robbery again cited, and the English
Satirized--A contrast--Causes of the want of moral
power of Abolitionists--Slaveholders no cause to
cringe--Other results--Effect of the adoption of
the _per se_ doctrine by ecclesiastical
bodies--Slaves thus left in all their moral
destitution--Inconsistency of _per se_ men
denouncing others--What the Bible says of similar
conduct.
HAVING noticed the political and economical relations of slavery, it may
be expected that we shall say something of its moral relations. In
attempting this, we choose not to traverse that interminable labyrinth,
without a thread, which includes the moral character of the system, as
it respects the relation between the master and the slave. The only
aspect in which we care to consider it, is in the moral relations which
the consumers of slave labor products sustain to slavery: and even on
this, we shall offer no opinion, our aim being only to promote inquiry.
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