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Read Ebook: Abolitionism Exposed! Proving the the Principles of Abolitionism are Injurious to the Slaves Themselves Destructive to This Nation and Contrary to the Express Commands of God by Sleigh W W William Willcocks
Font size: Background color: Text color: Add to tbrJar First Page Next PageEbook has 183 lines and 38725 words, and 4 pagesPage PREFACE 4 Liberty and Slavery defined--Difference between Words and Things 5 The Principles, &c. of the Leaders of Abolitionism exhibited 16 The impracticability of the object of Abolitionists demonstrated 24 The Conduct and Character of the Southern Slave-holder vindicated 49 Colonization Principles vindicated--Calumnies refuted--The good the Colonization Society has already done--is doing--and the incalculable good it must do, if duly patronized 66 Colonization and Abolitionism contrasted 88 Extract of an Address of William Lloyd Garrison, Esq., published in the London Patriot, of August, 1833 91 Conclusion 92 PREFACE ABOLITIONISM EXPOSED! "He is a freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain, That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off, With as much ease, as Samson his green withes." Again, while it by no means follows that every servant mentioned in the Bible, was a slave, it does follow that every slave was a servant! Upon the principles inculcated in the cases I have just related, would I act towards the slave, and the slave-holder; as more fully explained in another part of this treatise. THE PRINCIPLES, &C. OF THE LEADERS OF ABOLITIONISM EXHIBITED. To begin,-- Who was sent to Europe, a few years ago, as the REPRESENTATIVE of the American Anti-Slavery Society? WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, Esq.! Who, in that Country, publicly pronounced the American Union to be, "the most bloody and heaven-daring arrangement ever made by man"? WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, Esq.! WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, Esq.! Who, in said place, and said year, denounced the SIGNERS of the Declaration, to be men who, "virtually dethroned the MOST HIGH GOD"? WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, Esq.! WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, Esq.! Who declared, "he recognized the Union with feelings of shame and indignation"? WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, Esq.! Who predicted that the Union "would be held in everlasting infamy throughout the World"? WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, Esq.! Who pronounced the Union an "unholy Alliance"? WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, Esq.! Who has pronounced the Union "to be null and void from the beginning"? WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, Esq.! WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, Esq.! WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, Esq.! WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, Esq.! Is he a fanatic? I hope so, for his own sake: but then, he is equally disqualified from advising, planning, guiding, or advocating, any doctrine, let the doctrine be ever so good! THE IMPRACTICABILITY OF THE OBJECT OF ABOLITIONISTS DEMONSTRATED--AND THE INEVITABLE AND INCALCULABLE EVILS WHICH THAT OBJECT, IF ACCOMPLISHED, WOULD PRODUCE, &C. Take a view of the subject in any possible way, let the black conquer, or let him be conquered, ruination to him is the inevitable result, totally independent of the awful calamities to which the white population would be subjected. Here is a two-horned dilemma: let the Abolitionist sit upon either horn so long as he can, consistently with his profession of charity--of philanthropy, of christianity! Let us now contrast the advice and commands of Christ and of his Apostles, with the advice and doctrines of Abolitionists-- The Bible teaches-- Abolitionism teaches-- I think I have now fully proved my propositions, viz., "that the principles of Abolitionism are injurious to the slaves themselves, and are contrary to the express commands of God." "It has been asserted that, of free blacks collected in our cities and large towns, a great portion are found in abodes of wretchedness and vice, and become tenants of poor-houses and prisons. As a proof of the tendency of their condition, the following striking facts among others, ascertained a year or two since, have been mentioned: In Massachusetts, where the coloured population is small, being less than 7,000 souls, --> about 1-6th part of the whole number of convicts in the state-prison are blacks. In Connecticut, 1-34th part of the population is coloured, and --> 1-3d part of the convicts. In New-York, 1-35th part are blacks; --> 1-4th part of the convicts in the city state-prison are blacks. In New-Jersey, the proportion is 1-13th coloured; and of the convicts 1-3d. In Pennsylvania, 1-34th part of a population of more than a million of souls, is coloured; and more than one-third part of the convicts are black. --> This sum was expended in an average of less than eighteen years, on convicts from among a population of only 54,000 coloured persons. The ingenuity of Abolitionists, I am aware, will readily find for them a plausible answer to this charge: they will reply, oh if we stop slavery here--if we break up the system in our States, if there be no market to which the slave-trader can bring his slaves, the African traffic will soon cease. Admitted, if the little "IF," which always professes to accomplish great things, could work miracles. But pray, would breaking up the slave-trade in these States, break up the market elsewhere? Certainly not! For those 100,000 slaves now annually exported from Africa, are not brought here; but to the Brazils, Havanna, &c. &c. A short quotation from "the Plea for Africa" will furnish the reader with still more extensive views of the horrors of the SLAVE-TRADE, to which Abolitionists, with all their philanthropy, pay no attention. "Mr. Clarkson divides the slaves into seven classes. The most considerable class consists of kidnapped, or stolen Africans. In obtaining these, every species of injustice, treachery and cruelty are resorted to. This class, Mr. C. supposes, embraces one half of the whole number transported from Africa. The second class consists of those whose villages are set on fire and depopulated in the darkness of night, for the purpose of obtaining a portion of their inhabitants. The third class consists of those who have been convicted of crimes. The fourth, of prisoners in wars that originate from common causes, or in wars made solely for the purpose of procuring captives for slaves. The fifth, such as are slaves by birth. The sixth and seventh, such as have surrendered their liberty by reason of debt, or by other imprudences, which last, however, are comparatively few in number. "Some are carried to what are called slave-factories; others immediately to the shore, and conveyed in boats to the different ships whose captains have captured or purchased them. The men are confined on board the ship, two and two together, either by the neck, leg, or arm, with fetters of iron; and are put into apartments, the men occupying the forepart, the women the afterpart, and the children the middle. The tops of these apartments are grated for the admission of light and for ventilation when the weather is suitable for the grates to be uncovered, and are about three feet three inches in height, just sufficient space being allotted to each individual to sit in one posture, the whole stowed away like so much lumber. "It is said that when the slave-holders first visited the western coast of Africa, the country was most delightful. The coast was covered with villages, or thickly settled towns, which swarmed with inhabitants. Simple in their manners, amiable in their dispositions, in quiet enjoyment of the profuse bounties of nature, they are represented as exceeding happy. "Then what is man? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man?" Besides all this, recollect that there are about FIFTY MILLIONS of Africans left exposed to the debasing influence of this hellish practice. And if the Colonization Society did nothing more than stop or check this torrent of infernal iniquity, it ought to render its friends and advocates immortal, and make those blush who vilify and slander them. Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page |
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