The Young Voyageurs, Or, The Boy Hunters in the North
Author | : Mayne Reid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Adventure stories |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mayne Reid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Adventure stories |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Томас Майн Рид |
Publisher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5040836597 |
Author | : Mayne Reid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Adventure stories |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nehemiah Adams |
Publisher | : IndyPublish.com |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Excerpt: ...consistent with the interests of the colored people. "As to the extension of slavery, in this land, if the Most High has any further purposes of mercy for the African race in connection with us, he will not consult you nor me. He will open districts of our country for them; if my political party refuses to be the instrument in doing this, from benevolent motives, or from any other cause, He will make that party to be defeated, it may be by a party below us in moral principle, as we view it. This question of slavery, its extension and continuance, is therefore among the great problems of God's providence. I shall do all that I properly can to prevent it, and to encourage, and, if called upon, to aid my brethren now in immediate charge of the slaves, to fulfil their solemn trust; but anything like impatience and passion at the existence of slavery, I hold to be a sin against God. I pity those good men whose minds are so inflamed by the consideration of individual cases of suffering as not to perceive the great and steadfast march of the divine administration. Politicians and others who get their places, or their bread, by easy appeals to sympathy for individual cases of suffering, are the causes of much misplaced commiseration and of a low, uninstructed view of the great interests involved in slavery. Yet these very men who, for selfish purposes, stir up the passions of our people, by dwelling on cases of hardship in slavery, are greatly disappointed when Napoleon III., at Villafranca, prematurely terminates a war of unparalleled slaughter. They would have preferred, for the cause of constitutional liberty and for its possible influence against the Pope, that the fighting had continued a month longer; we hear no pathetic remonstrances from them on the score of the killed and maimed, the widows and orphans and the childless, of homes made desolate, by this additional month of battle. Such is man, so inconsistent, so blinded by party prejudice, so...