Letters On Slavery Addressed to the Pro Slavery Men of America Showing Its Ill
Letters On Slavery Addressed to the Pro Slavery Men of America Showing Its Ill
Edward Coit Rogers
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" Both relio;ion and hu- manity" said Cyprian, " make it a duty for us to work for the deliverance of the captive. It is Christ himself whom we ought to consider in our captive brothers. "! Not so ! Not so ! cry our new light doctors of divinity. " Religion makes it our duty to aid the oppressor, to return the cap- tive to bonds and stripes ; and as for humanity, that is on- ly the foam and froth in the boiling pot of society. So these fine doctors of to day, advocate the superiority of barbari...sm, repeat the creed of old tyrants, take the side of heathenism and atheism against Christianity, while yet they pretend to be christians. They would send their mothers into slavery if they had been born under a task- master and the tyrant demanded the sacrifice; for " this" say they, " is law and order. " Such law and order, gentle- men, as sunk Greece, buried Rome, plunged mankind into palpable night, extinguishing the last taper of science and the last star of hope. *St. Cyp. T. V. Dernet. fSt.
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