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Excerpt from The Great Question Answered: Or, Is Slavery a Sin in Itself (Per Se?) Answered According to the Teaching of the Scriptures
In writing on this much mooted point. Te wish to write a few plain things for the benefit of plain and common people, and especially to discuss the question, Is Slavery sinful in itself? (per This is the point that one class of writers take for granted as being right; the other class assume that it is wrong; and hence, the honest inquirer is left in doubt after he has waded through works and speeches on both sides of the question. The stability of our re publican institutions is threatened by the contin ual and angry discussions on this Slavery ques tion; and while there are many, both at the North and at the South, who would be glad to seize on any pretext to pull down the fair tem ple of liberty, we are fully satisfied that there is a large number, more particularly at the North, who would be more hearty in their co Operation in maintaining the Constitution of their country, if they were fully and conscien tiously satisfied that it did not uphold and legalize a moral wrong. Many ways and means. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
