Address Delivered at the Re-Union Convention (Classic Reprint): Of the Old Abolitionists of Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, October 1st, 1879, ... 1879, at Alliance, Ohio (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Bradford, Arthur Bullus

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ISBN 10: 1331558697 ISBN 13: 9781331558699

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Address Delivered at the Re-Union Convention: Of the Old Abolitionists of Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, October 1st, 1879, at Alliance, Ohio

In taking aretrospective View as I have of the long strug gle in which the Abolitionists were brought into such danger ous prominence some persons, not well informed, may think that I have been harsh in my censure of the Church for the part she took against us, and in behalf of the abominations of Slavery. But I stand here to-day as an attorney for the speechless dead to defend their characters from the ignominy heaped upon them during a course of thirty years by their fellow citizens. Some ofthem in that holy war died in prison; some were branded; many were mobbed. They all died 1111 der a cloud of reproach, seeing only with the eye of faith the dawn ofthat day which we see in its meridian glory! In the persecutions which followed them to the grave it was the Church which led the way, and cried Steboy! To the dogs and no dogs have such sharp teeth and so ferocious a spirit as those which the Church breeds in her kennels! I would he faithless to our compatriots in the grave, if, on such an occa sion as the present, I did not defend them before this genera tion from the assaults which their eiemies made upon their. Characters and persons and which have never been confessed nor apologized for to this moment!

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Excerpt from Address Delivered at the Re-Union Convention: Of the Old Abolitionists of Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, October 1st, 1879, at Alliance, Ohio

Comrades of the Old Forlorn Hope:

That the audience may see the appropriateness of this military term as applied to the Abolitionists of 1830, let us go back to those times which we old men have good cause to remember, but which you young men know nothing about, except by the hearing of the ear; when the Institution of American Slavery ruled the Nation with a rod of iron; and when the moral darkness that brooded over the land was like the darkness of Egypt that could be felt.

The crime of slavery consisted in the fact, that irrespective of color or blood, upon the legal principle "partus sequitur ventrem" - the child follows the condition of the mother - it converted millions of the American people into chattels personal to be bought, sold, or inherited as joperty. The outrage it inflicted on huraanit was as great as the insult it offered to God who is the Father of us all. The National Constitution limited the slave trade on the coast of Africa to the 3 ear 1808, but the Inter-State slave trade was not prohibited, and men, women and children, of all ages and complexions, being in law only property, were exposed in the marketplace to all the incidents of property. Michael Eeece, who died in California last year worth thirteen millions, began his fortune by keeping three slave shambles in as many Southern cities - Washington, Baltimore and Kichmond, where he traded in the flesh ol Christians as the Christians had traded in the flesh of his Jewish ancestors centuries ago, and where his odious traffic was advertised in all the leading papers of those cities. Loving each other with all the tenderness we feel towards our relatives, the sufferings of the slaves all over the South were inexpressibly great. My heart aches even now when I remember the scenes which I myself have witnessed, but I never saw the one-millionth part of the agony which was endured by the enslaved race.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331558697
• ISBN 13: 9781331558699
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 24