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Mr. Adams And Slavery

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Day
23
Month
December
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mr. Adarns advocates the right of peti;ion, and opposes the Annexation of Texis: but he is a zealous antagonist of the mmediate abolition of slavery in the Federal District. He lately made a labored speech at North Bridgwater, Mass. on this subject. He would be very glad to see slavery abolished there, and hopcs that 20 y ca ra henee not a single slave will be found there. He says the number is constantly diminishing, though "the operation of an infiuence in fnll and constant activity." What this "infiuence" is we know not, unless it be the Slave Trade! ■Mr. Ádams then predicts the resul ts of cmancipation in true pro-slavery style. - He says that "multitudes of the inhabitants of the cities would be irretrievably ruined." - the emancipated slaves would be an "idle, breadless, houseless, lawless population, more likely to consume the cities themselves by fire than to add to their comfort ov prosperity" - and finally ives us to understandlhat the people ofVirginia and Maryland might -become "exasperaled beyond endurance," and be "driven by desperation to deeds o.f violence," and thus "a civil war would be ihe first fruits of Abolition!" Yet in the same speech, Mr. Adams quotes the favorable results of West India emancipation, and speaks of the anti-slavery cause as "an efFort to purify and redeem the human race from the sorest evil with which they are afflicted in the mortal stage of their existence." Strange inconsistency! To wish and argüe for the removal of the shackles of man generally, and then, inthat single instance where he he can aid in removing them, plead and argüe and vote for their perpetuity!

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