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Here is a review of me and of my little stories, by a distinguished New
England divine, and author. He has written much on slavery. Having
prepared notices of some of his writings on this subject, I am familiar
with his turns of thought and modes of expression. I have great regard
for him, and always read him with pleasure and profit, not excepting
when he writes as follows, in doing which he has the approbation of
large numbers among the Northern clergy of all denominations, except the
Episcopalians,--who, more than other Northern ministers, are remarkably
free from ultraisms.
"Concerning the truckle-cart, 'we would say this,' that unquestionably
'the moral power' of the incident was all which the writer assumes, but
its 'logical sequences' 'we utterly deny.' Slavery is evil, and only
evil, and that continually; now, to infer that agreeable relations can
subsist between the children of masters and the children of slaves under
the 'immense, malignant, and all-pervading influence of slavery,'
abhorred of Heaven and all good men, does violence to all sound
principles of reasoning, and is at war with 'the manifest rules of
Providence.'
"And as to the three girls 'we are prepared to say' that the author 'did
not look deep enough' into the philosophy of human motives under the
controlling power of slavery.
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