This is the case
with not a few at the South, and it was very common in Thomas
Jefferson's days. But the large majority, who were of the contrary
opinion, got the advantage in the argument, and it seemed to me went far
toward convincing the physician, as they did me, that he was wrong.
"The company all seemed to look toward a judge who was present, to open
the discussion with a statement of his views. He did so by saying, for
substance, as follows:--
"'I will take it for granted,' said he, 'that we are agreed as to the
unlawfulness of the slave-trade, past and present. We find the blacks
here, as we come upon the stage. We are born into this relationship. It
is an existing form of government in the Slave States.
"'Ownership in man is not contrary to the will of God. I also find it
written that "Canaan shall be a servant." Hear these words of
inspiration: "Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto
his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan
shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in
the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant." As the Japhetic
race is to dwell in the tents of Shem, for example, England occupying
India, so I believe the black race is under the divine sentence of
servitude.
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