Remarks Upon Slavery And the Slave-Trade, Addressed to the Hon. Henry Clay
Remarks Upon Slavery And the Slave-Trade, Addressed to the Hon. Henry Clay
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The great work will have been done on our part, and the laws, which control all social arrangements, will preside over the destiny of both races. If evil therefrom is in the womb of time, we should not, on that account, be restrained from doing, what we now consider to be right and proper ; and if a collision between the two races is inevitable in after times, under any circumstances, we shall at least, in adopting this scheme, have rescued the generation of that day, from the additional calami...ty of loss of property. But supposing, that the above anticipations as to a tranquil existence of the two races, and the advantages to both from the contemplated change, prove ultimately to be exaggerated : I will submit it to any unprejudiced mind, whether the perils, excitements, and discord, with which the institution is now menaced, will not, in all human probability, more than counterbalance the incon- veniences which may result, in the course of time, from a social revolution, brought about by just and liberal measures, in a spirit of compromise with the general and growing feeling in all Christendom upon the subject of slavery, and in conformity with the wishes of (he great majority of our own countrymen ?
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