Letter on Colonization - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1834. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... thus slavery as it is in practice is justified; the consciences of men are put at ease; the great duty of man to do unto others as he would they should do unto him, and the great truth, that' aU men are created equal,' on which our republican institutions stand, virtually lived down. If to the above considerations in reference to slavery, arising out of the manner in which that subject is treated by colonizationists, there he added the effects of a sentiment of hostility against the free colored people, excited in the whites by a persevering reiteration of the policy of removing from among us that class of persons, because they are not only pestilent to us all, but dangerous, by their very presence, to the full repose of the slaveholder, together with the irritated and indignant feelings which such a course is calculated to produce in their minds, the clue is furnished to account for the facts, that under the colonization regimen, slavery, as a system, remains unshaken, and that Liberiau emigration, so far as the free colored people are concerned, is almost entirely abandoned. If any of the conclusions above indicated be true, viz. that the system of slavery in our country remains unshaken, and that we are living down the great foundation principle of the government; that a persecuting and malignant spirit has been,excited against the free colored people; that the consciences of men, whilst tltey are perpetrating the greatest wrong that can be perpetrated, this side the grave, against their fellow men, are put at ease, it is greatly to be deplored: and if on impartial examination, the cause of all this be detected in colonization principles; or if it is only probable, that it may be detected there, with what alacrity should we abandon a course of action in...