A View of the American Slavery Question
A View of the American Slavery Question
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Slavery is the condition of slaves ; and SLAVE-HOLDERS. 85 slaves are human beinofs " deemed, taken, reputed, and adjndo-ed to be chattels per- sonal, in the hands of their masters and possessors, to all intents and purposes whatsoever. "' To be in this condition is to be in slavery, not to be under whole- some restraint.
The manumission which we at the North advocate, is a voluntary manumis- sion on the part of the masters. A class of men among us have been loudly ac- cused of wishing to inter...fere with the rights of the masters, by effecting the abolition of slavery without their consent. How they would set about the accomplishment of such a preposterous and unconstitutional scheme it is difficult to conceive. We may safely affirm that the most ardent and sanguine among them never entertained even a distant idea of this quixotic enter- prise. The United States cannot consti- tutionally legislate on this subject except for the District of Columbia. But were it 86 ULTERIOR DUTIES OF in their power to wrest the slaves out of the hands of the masters without their consent, disastrous consequences might then reasonably be expected to follow.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Slavery is the condition of slaves ; and SLAVE-HOLDERS. 85 slaves are human beinofs " deemed, taken, reputed, and adjndo-ed to be chattels per- sonal, in the hands of their masters and possessors, to all intents and purposes whatsoever. "' To be in this condition is to be in slavery, not to be under whole- some restraint.
The manumission which we at the North advocate, is a voluntary manumis- sion on the part of the masters. A class of men among us have been loudly ac- cused of wishing to inter...fere with the rights of the masters, by effecting the abolition of slavery without their consent. How they would set about the accomplishment of such a preposterous and unconstitutional scheme it is difficult to conceive. We may safely affirm that the most ardent and sanguine among them never entertained even a distant idea of this quixotic enter- prise. The United States cannot consti- tutionally legislate on this subject except for the District of Columbia. But were it 86 ULTERIOR DUTIES OF in their power to wrest the slaves out of the hands of the masters without their consent, disastrous consequences might then reasonably be expected to follow.
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