Examination of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Ca
Examination of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Ca
James Gillespie Birney
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South Carolina and Georgia — States which, at the holding of the Con- stitutional Convention, laid the foundation of our present troubles about slavery — have never altered their opinion. In these States, then, little has been done in the colonization cause. The greatest difficulty the Society had to encounter was with the North. North- ern men had not yet "sufficiently con- quered their prejudices" against human bondage, as to make them concur with alacrity in the plan. Many of them had seen —... more of them had known — that their fathers had put an end to slavery — either immediately or prospectively — as the worst condition to which their fel- low beings could be brought. From this they learned to detest it. They knew, too, that the free colored people among them were the descendants of the slaves; and it is altogether likely that the North- ern men would, if entirely uninfluenced, have acted toward them more kindly and justly than they often have* But they took their temper toward the colored people from the slaveholding South, where — especially in the country^ — they were treated with so much contempt and dis-like, that it might be said to amonnt to persecution.
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