Lanterna Rally

Author: E. R. Tyler

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781331186335

Excerpt from Slaveholding a Malum in Se or Invariably Sinful While the friends of the slave and of human rights are rapidly enrolling themselves as members of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and participating actively in its noble enterprize, regarding it as the only effective organization for relieving the country of slavery by peaceful measures; not a few persons of respectability and influence, withhold their support, on the ground that they cannot conscientiously pronounce all slaveholding to be sinful, and every slaveholder guilty. They object, not to the measures of the Society, which they acknowledge are constitutional, but to this sentiment, which is affirmed to be one of its distinctive doctrines. Were we doubtful of its truth and practical utility we should refer these gentlemen to the Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society, which declares the sinfulness of slavery in general terms, without asserting the absolute impossibility of innocently holding a slave in any conceivable case. Can the conscientious opponents of slavery as a system, hesitate to co-operate under such a Constitution with the conscientious opponents of all slaveholding? We choose not, however, to urge their co-operation on this ground, it being our firm persuasion, that they may yet be convinced of the truth of this (at present) repulsive doctrine, and do much, by its recognition and acknowledgement, towards rectifying the public sentiment of the nation, and severing the chains of slavery. To prove that slaveholding is invariably sinful, is, therefore, the object of these pages. The design in view demands a definition of slavery, accurately distinguishing it from other kinds of servitude, with which it is apt to be confounded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.