A Review of the REV. Moses Stuart's Pamphlet on Slavery; Entitled Conscience and the Constitution (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OHIO. The Democratic Convention passed the following resolution, January 8,1850 Resolved?That the people of Ohio, now, as they always have done, look upon the institution of slavery in any part of the Union, as an evil, as unfavorable to the full developement of the spirit and practical benefits of free institutions; and that, entertaining these sentiments, they will at the same time feel it to be their duty to use all power clearly given by the national compact, to prevent its increase, to mitigate, and finally to eradicate the evil. The Whig State Convention, on the 6th May, 1850: Eesolved ? That in all territorial governments hereafter organized by Congress, we here reiterate the principle declared by the Whig State Convention of 1848, " that there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude therein, otherwise than for the punishment of crime." I have before me, also, the action of more than twelve of our most influential ecclesiastical bodies, that have passed resolutions similar to these. Some of these I shall have occasion to quote in connection with other points. Besides, there is a vast amount of hostility to this system, in the Northern, Western, and even some of the Southern States, which has never been expressed beyond private circles, because of the injudicious and denunciatory course of the extreme ultraists upon this question. These thousands have been and continue to be silent, from the fear of being charged with being parties to " an unjust and unnatural union," such as Mr. Stuart refers to. NO. IH. ?IS SLAVERY A "MALUM IN SE"?AN EVIL IN ITSELF ? In 2, Mr. Stuart discusses this question, and takes the ground that slavery is not a malum in se, and appeals to the Bible to prove the correctness of his position. " One leading pos...