Report of Remarks by REV. G. W. Perkins, on Mr. Stuart's Book, Conscience and the Constitution At a Meeting in Guilford, August 1, 1850, Commemorative of Emancipation in the West Indies (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Report of Remarks by Rev. G. W. Perkins, on Mr. Stuart's Book, "Conscience and the Constitution" At a Meeting in Guilford, August 1, 1850, Commemorative of Emancipation in the West Indies

Here then hold your Opponent to his principles. If he alleges the Jew as example and justification; then he must maintain that a war of extermination is right now: that our troops in Mexico might have butchered men, women and children in their march and have exterminated the people. The devil can quote Scrip ture for his purposes, and our regimental chaplains could have justified the butchery from Scripture, as logically as slavery is de fended from the example of the Jews.

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