Slavery in the United States a Letter to the Hon Daniel Webster
Slavery in the United States a Letter to the Hon Daniel Webster
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Under the most favourable circumstances, therefore, the subdued tone of sincere repentance would have been alone appropriate, coupled with that patient interpretation of the sins of others which a newly awakened consciousness of our own enormities is calculated to beget. But the mode in which the claim for compensation was dealt with, was not such as to entitle us even to the amount of gratifica- tion which might thus have been enjoyed, since it was characterized by features of injustice, showi...ng too plainly that we were not prepared to effect our withdrawal from the sin of Slavery without com- mitting a new infringement of the moral law. In bringing forward his plan, Lord Stanley (then Mr. Secretary Stanley, ) having distinctly recognized the claim of the planters to full compensation for the withdrawal of their legal title to property in the coloured race, took as his estimate of the value of that property the sum of thirty millions sterling, being 800, 000 slaves at 37/. 10s. Each; and the way in which he proposed to meet this amount was by a direct payment of twenty millions, and by conti- 24 nuing to the holders a right of property in the labour of the negroes for periods (according to their class as predial or non-predial) of twelve and seven years, the value of such labour being considered as equi- valent to the balance.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Under the most favourable circumstances, therefore, the subdued tone of sincere repentance would have been alone appropriate, coupled with that patient interpretation of the sins of others which a newly awakened consciousness of our own enormities is calculated to beget. But the mode in which the claim for compensation was dealt with, was not such as to entitle us even to the amount of gratifica- tion which might thus have been enjoyed, since it was characterized by features of injustice, showi...ng too plainly that we were not prepared to effect our withdrawal from the sin of Slavery without com- mitting a new infringement of the moral law. In bringing forward his plan, Lord Stanley (then Mr. Secretary Stanley, ) having distinctly recognized the claim of the planters to full compensation for the withdrawal of their legal title to property in the coloured race, took as his estimate of the value of that property the sum of thirty millions sterling, being 800, 000 slaves at 37/. 10s. Each; and the way in which he proposed to meet this amount was by a direct payment of twenty millions, and by conti- 24 nuing to the holders a right of property in the labour of the negroes for periods (according to their class as predial or non-predial) of twelve and seven years, the value of such labour being considered as equi- valent to the balance.
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