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ject , and after glancing at polygamy , general tenor , and an argumentum ad homines on political freedom , he bolts with a quotation from Wayland ' s Elements of Moral Science , which is to much the same effect as his own previous observations .
Chapter vi . is on the " Means of Removing Slavery . ' * It consists of various suggestions for a gradual and careful change in the condition of the negroes , to be realized by the governments and inhabitants of the slave states , all interference with whom is most earnestly deprecated . The great experiment , now auspiciously proceeding in the West Indies , cannot but furnish all honest abolitionists amongst the American slaveholders with many important hints ; while the
fact of that experiment should impress the whole body with the necessity which it creates for their not long delaying some analogous measures . The two remaining chapters relate to the indiscretions of the zealous abolitionists , and the temper in which it becomes the free States to meet the insulting and menacing language of the fiery aristocrats of the South . The swaggering tone of these deluded men , while it exposes them to the derision and scorn of the world , seems to have cowed the
New Englanders in an extraordinary degree . The slavers bully with pistol in hand , and call their ruffianism " Chivalry . " Alack for republicanism ! And there are those in the northern States who would suppress by law all discussion of slavery , and deliver over to the tender mercies of Virginia such of their own free citizens as " might be claimed as instigators of insurrection . " Loud laugh the despots and demons of the Holy Alliance at such rumours ; and well they
may . And now a word or two to thousands of our countrymen who will laud this book to the skies , which is not higher than it deserves ; and folding their arms on their breasts , bless God that they are not as these Americans . We ask them how it is , if slavery be so foul an injustice , that not more than
one human being out of thirty in Great Britain has any political existence ? At most , our political being amounts only to an inconsiderable fraction of the appointment of a representative , who , when appointed , possesses , numerically , one-six-hundred-and-fiftieth of one-third of the legislative
power . This power of appointment is so exercised as to be continually subjected toinHuence and restraint . Its return is only provided ioronce in seven years , unless there be some purpose to be answered by some portion of the ruling authority . Such is our freedom . And for one that has it , there are riine-andtwenty who are destitute ; and whose condition , so far as principle is concerned , conies under the description of slavery . It may be a very light find gentle slavery ; it may be a very
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Clianmng on Slavery . 201
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1836, page 201, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2656/page/9/
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