This pamphlet contains a review of Mr Clay's "Letter on emancipation" and strictures on Mr. Campbell's "Tract for the people of Kentucky". These enemies of the South threw their mischievous productions betore the country during the canvass in Kentucky, for a Convention to alter the Constitution of that state. Their professed object was to effect the abolition of slavery in Kentucky. The author answered them because he conceived, that while each pretended to write for the people of Kentucky, and in reference to slavery in that state, both made a general attack upon the institution of slavery everywhere, but more especially, as existing in tlie Southern States of this confederacy. He now presents these answers to the public in pamphlet form, because he desires to cast the mite of his influence into the scale of Southern rights at this crisis, and hopes this humble tract will assist Southerners to form correct views of their rights, and of the rectitude of their institution as appointed of God and sustained by the Bible. The letter on emancipation fell into my hands in the spring of l849, and the Review was written and published in the Augusta Constitutionalist, in May, and was copied and circulated in Kentuckv, during their Convention canvass. - To the reader.
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Excerpt from A Defence of Southern Slavery, Against the Attacks of Henry Clay and Alex'r Campbell: In Which Much of the False Philanthropy and Mawkish Sentimentalism of the Abolitionists Is Met and Refuted Forced by want to pay out, first, all their cash for corn. And then to sell their lands and themselves into servitude to Pharaoh; and they felt the spirit. Of true gratitude for having their lives' preserved on the terms of becoming slaves This then illustrates Gods benevolent in stitutton ofslavery. It is intended to take under its protection and safe keeping the improvident and reckless who may have forfeited their title. To liberty through poverty, crime or the disastc ofwar. (see Leviticus xxv. 39 s47; Exodus xxi. 1-7; Joshua. Ix. 23 The curse inflicted on Canaan, (gen. Ix. 24. For the crime of his father was an exercise of divine mercy toward the father in sparing him and punishing the. Son; and the lunlsltment was dispensed in mercy to the son, in preserving. Him and his posterity alive, with dimin ishod intellect. Instead of cutting them otf; and it. Is doubtless under such diminution'ofintellectuality' that the negro race in their native state, have ever shown themselves so improvident and incapacitated us to forbid their rise from a condition of savage barbarity. Under their own management. The Bible, however. By no meansjustlfies tin-ir forcible enslztvcment by any enlightened or more powerful nation, nor do we recollertany particle. Of his. Tory showmg such to be the manner in \vth our negroes were enslaved, as M r. Clay would be understood to insinuate in several parts of his chap ter on emancipation. He speaks 'in the 5th and 25th verses ofthe piteous wrongs done to Africa and her. Children, through the institution of slavery. Whether this sophism is designed as a blistering unguent to be applied to the conscienres of Southern slaveholdet's, to induce them to submit to be ri ed ofthcir property without resistance, or to be an election eering salvo to enlist the morbid sympathies of Northern abolitionists I shall not let-l hound to decide. But I shall like to be informed more specifically in what sense either the country or the inhabitants of Africa. Or the no groes brought from there, have ever been wronged by God's merciful in stitution of slavery. Were the belligerent parties engaged in struggling warfare, wronged when this benign instttulion interposed to induce the conquerors to make slaves oftheir captives instead of butchering them in the most cruel manner.z And were those captives thus mercifully spared as slaws. Wronged on being transported from a state of savage slaver under unfeeling tyrants in their native land ofsickness. Ignorance and idof; atry, to the protection and guardianship of kind, christianized and civil ized masters, in a land ofbible light, of civil and gospel privileges, and ofhealth and plenty Has this divine institution of God's appointment, done our Southern slaves wrong in placing them beneath the protecting banner of the Constitution and laws of the most civilized portion of the world; and under the guardianship of owners. Whose. Christian sympathy and personal interest combine to furnish them (parents and children) a comfortable home for life, and such supply offood, raiment and medical aid, as may be. Best calculated to secure health and pro!on_r life! Thus reno dering their civil condition superior to thatofany class of poor in any sec tion of the known world Has this heaven - born institution done ourslaves wrong in providing them apartments in everv house of worship throughout the Southern country, where they may sit with their owners under the proclamation of gospel grace; and through which thousands of them are enabled to rejoice in the glorious hope of a blessed immortality? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com"
