The Right of American SlaveryHoit, T. W. (True Worthy)
Philosophy
The Right of American Slavery
Hoit, T. W. (True Worthy)
Slavery -- Justification; Slavery -- United States
5. It is right to summon the barbarian to the lessons of civilization,
and to teach him its _primary_ lessons; to elevate him to the dignity
of labor.
6. It is right to HOLD the barbarian subject to the rules of
civilization; to protect him by its laws, and rescue him from the
wrongs and miseries of barbarism. In this way, only, he can be made
happier and better. He falls, if unsupported by external power.
7. American Slavery promotes civilization by the production of
materials wherewith to clothe the nakedness of mankind, and the useful
medium or knowledge and intelligence, through books, and literature,
printed upon materials which are the product of slave labor.
8. It is just that barbarism should subserve civilization; that Wrong
should subserve Right.
9. The African is not equal to the white man, but is a barbarian, and
as such has no political rights.
10. American Slavery is Right.
CONCLUSION.
If, then, it is not right, nor practicable, nor possible, to restore
these 4,000,000 of Africans to barbarism, why any longer agitate the
subject? Why keep the negro in perpetual dread of change, and the
owner dubious of the future? Why, by this negro agitation, create
apprehension in the minds of our own people for the stability and
permanence of this government, and hope in the minds of all the
monarchists of the world that this agitation will divide and destroy
this last great bulwark of human freedom?
Why shall we put to hazard that freedom which is already secure? Why
involve in experiments those tangible acquisitions which we have made
to this priceless inheritance of freedom? Washington is gone, but he
has left us his bright example, and his solemn admonitions. Let those
who are greater, and wiser, and purer than Washington, impeach him.
Let those whose precepts or examples excel his, question the
superiority of his virtue and valor. Let those who have done more for
human freedom, denounce him as the enemy of mankind, and erect for
themselves a standard of moral action, which shall rise to the
stupendous height of their own boundless egotism!
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