Address Delivered at the Re-Union Convention (Classic Reprint): Of the Old Abolitionists of Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, October 1st, 1879, ... 1879, at Alliance, Ohio (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Bradford, Arthur Bullus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331558697 ISBN 13: 9781331558699

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Address Delivered at the Re-Union Convention: Of the Old Abolitionists of Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, October 1st, 1879, at Alliance, Ohio Comrades of the Old Forlorn Hope: That the audience may see the appropriateness of this military term as applied to the Abolitionists of 1830, let us go back to those times which we old men have good cause to remember, but which you young men know nothing about, except by the hearing of the ear; when the Institution of American Slavery ruled the Nation with a rod of iron; and when the moral darkness that brooded over the land was like the darkness of Egypt that could be felt. The crime of slavery consisted in the fact, that irrespective of color or blood, upon the legal principle "partus sequitur ventrem" - the child follows the condition of the mother - it converted millions of the American people into chattels personal to be bought, sold, or inherited as joperty. The outrage it inflicted on huraanit was as great as the insult it offered to God who is the Father of us all. The National Constitution limited the slave trade on the coast of Africa to the 3 ear 1808, but the Inter-State slave trade was not prohibited, and men, women and children, of all ages and complexions, being in law only property, were exposed in the marketplace to all the incidents of property. Michael Eeece, who died in California last year worth thirteen millions, began his fortune by keeping three slave shambles in as many Southern cities - Washington, Baltimore and Kichmond, where he traded in the flesh ol Christians as the Christians had traded in the flesh of his Jewish ancestors centuries ago, and where his odious traffic was advertised in all the leading papers of those cities. Loving each other with all the tenderness we feel towards our relatives, the sufferings of the slaves all over the South were inexpressibly great. My heart aches even now when I remember the scenes which I myself have witnessed, but I never saw the one-mi

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331558697
• ISBN 13: 9781331558699
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24