The gospel of slavery : a primer of freedom . Stands for JPrinciple, Policy fainWould measure all deeds by the loss or the gain,While Principle never finds aught to consultBut conscience and duty, what eer the Slaveholding policy, all that you winMay fitly be reckoned the wages of sin,And what has been earned by the master or thrall,Is never withheld by the Puler of you will learn, when the payment is a deed which is wrong is impolitic too. In 1786 Wasliington expressed his determination never topossess another slave by purchase. Avowed in 1794 that heheld slaves
The gospel of slavery : a primer of freedom . Stands for JPrinciple, Policy fainWould measure all deeds by the loss or the gain,While Principle never finds aught to consultBut conscience and duty, what eer the Slaveholding policy, all that you winMay fitly be reckoned the wages of sin,And what has been earned by the master or thrall,Is never withheld by the Puler of you will learn, when the payment is a deed which is wrong is impolitic too. In 1786 Wasliington expressed his determination never topossess another slave by purchase. Avowed in 1794 that heheld slaves very reluctantly to his own feehngs. By willemancipated all he held, making provision for the support of theaged and infirm, and for the education of the young—and mostsolemnly enjoined his executors to see that his instructions wererehgiously fulfilled. According to the Slavery propagandists ofthis age of grace, all this was fundamentally wrong !. Stands for Query, Inquisitive thoughtMay lead to conclusions not anxiously of Quadroon we a moment should think,With one side of ancestry sable as ink,The other side claiming complexion as fairAs fatherly planters most commonly wear:The child of her Master, a Slave-daughter still,Must bow to the law of his sensual will;And when he shall sell her, (perhaps very soon)The Query may follow the chattel Quadroon. The cry of amalgamation as the result of the abolition ofSlavery, comes with a very ill grace from Southerners. Howmany nearly-white children have been sent to the North for aneducation, or to hide their negro-blood ? How many such havebeen manumitted, to guard against their continuance in bondageby any mishap ? How many Quadroons have been sold volun-tarily or brought to the block by the pecuniary embaiTassmentsof their father-masters ?
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