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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), The conflict with slavery (search)
ar. Slavery is protected by the constitutional compact, by the standing army, by the militia of the free states. J. Q. Adams is the only member of Congress who has ventured to speak plainly of this protection. See also his very able Report fring our testimony and lifting our warning voices to the last, leave the event in the hands of a righteous God. John Quincy Adams. In 1837 Isaac Knapp printed Letters from John Quincy Adams to his Constituents of the Twelfth Congressional DiJohn Quincy Adams to his Constituents of the Twelfth Congressional District in Massachusetts, to which is added his Speech in Congress, delivered February 9, 1837, and the following stood as an introduction to the pamphlet. the following letters have been published, within a few weeks, in the Quincy (Mass.) Patrioe limits of the constituency to whom they are particularly addressed. The reason of this is sufficiently obvious. John Quincy Adams belongs to neither of the prominent political parties, fights no partisan battles, and cannot be prevailed upon to
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Zzz Missing head (search)
an. It is that under which the creation groaneth and travaileth unto this day. It is as old as sin; the perpetual argument of strength against weakness, of power against right; that of the Greek philosopher, that the barbarians, being of an inferior race, were born to be slaves to the Greeks; and of the infidel Hobbes, that every man, being by nature at war with every other man, has a perpetual right to reduce him to servitude if he has the power. It is the cardinal doctrine of what John Quincy Adams has very properly styled the Satanic school of philosophy,—the ethics of an old Norse sea robber or an Arab plunderer of caravans. It is as widely removed from the sweet humanities and unselfish benevolence of Christianity as the faith and practice of the East India Thug or the New Zealand cannibal. Our author does not, however, take us altogether by surprise. He has before given no uncertain intimations of the point towards which his philosophy was tending. In his brilliant essa
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Index of titles of prose writings (search)
Index of titles of prose writings Abolitionists, The, their Sentiments and Objects, VII. 58. Adams, John Quincy, VII. 93. Agency of Evil, The, VII. 249. American Anti-Slavery Society, Formation of the, VII. 145. Anti-Slavery Anniversary, VII. 193. Anti-Slavery Convention of 1833, The, VII. 171. Ashley, Lord, and the Thieves, VII. 221. Baxter, Richard, VI. 146. Beautiful, The, v. 412. Better Land, The, VII. 280. Bible and Slavery, The, VII. 96. Black Men in the Revolution and War of 1812, The, VI. 406. Blind, Reading for the, VII. 236. Border War of 1708, The, VI. 368. Boy Captives, The, VI. 395. Bunyan, John, VI. 9. Carlyle, Thomas, on the Slave-Question, VII. 133. Censure of Sumner, The, VII. 167. Channing, William Ellery, VI. 283. Chapter of History, A, VII. 120. Charms and Fairy Faith, v. 385. Child, Lydia Maria, VI. 286. City of a Day, The, v. 351. David Matson, v. 314. Death of President Garfield, VI. 28