Proceedings (1847) (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: REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OX ABOLITION. altogether favorable to its own character, end its own continuance. Press and pulpit are alike prostituted,and made to serve the end of this infernal institution The power of the government, and the sanctity of religion, church and state,are joined with theyrnilty oppressor against the oppressed?and the voice of this great nation is thundering in the car of our enslaved fellow countrymen the terrible fiat, you shall be slaves or die. ! The slave is in the minority, a small minority. The op- various panics ::'ia lacuous, lauugc aiu nme permit, iiiuy uum pmaiy uo so, they beg- at once to state their entire disapprobation of anv plan of emancipation involving a resort to bloodshed. With the facts of our condition before us, it is impossible for us to contemplate any appeal to the slave to take vengence on his guilty master, but with the utmost reprobation Your Committee regard any counsel of this sort as the perfection of folly, suicidal in the extreme, and abominably wicked. We should utterly frown down and wholly discountenance any attempt to lead our people to coniide in brute force as a reformatory instrumentality. All argument put forth in favor of insurrection and bloodshed, howevcr.well intended, is either '--- -""'-It of an unpardonable impatience or an atheistic want of faith in the power as a means of regenerating; and reforming the world. Again we repeat, i cai- ii viui u nun iu u v ui 1111 mi Liu? luui ? yoiciii "i uivwj uuw Imui Avjui vwiiniiii- tee deem it susceptible of the clearest demonstration, that slavery exists in this country, because the people ot this country Will its existence. Andtheydeem it equatly clear, that no system or institution can exist for au hour against the eai nestly-ex pressed WILL of the people...