Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Discourse on Slavery in the United States: Delivered in Brooklyn, July 3, 1831
Thus we reason - thus we quickly feel in all cases but one the one in which we are implicated with the oppressors. But is there any apology for our inaction and insensibility in this case, that will avail us at the bar of Heaven Indeed, is there any which covers, even from the observation of the world, our egregious inconsistency N o - no. A stinging reproach is of ten sent home to us from abroad, and we have no shield to break its point or turn its edge.
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