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Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 19: Spottsylvania (search)
s: Can you pray, sir? Can you pray? I bent over the poor fellow, turned back his blouse, and saw that a large canister shot had passed through his chest at such a point that the wound must necessarily prove mortal, and that soon. We both knelt down by him, and I took his hand in mine and said: My friend, you haven't much time left for prayer, but if you will say after me just these simple words, with heart as well as lips, all will be well with you: God have mercy on me, a sinner, for Jesus Christ's sake. I never saw such intensity in human gaze, nor ever heard such intensity in human voice, as in the gaze and voice of that dying man as he held my hand and looked into my face, repeating the simple, awful, yet reassuring words I had dictated. He uttered them again and again, with the death rattle in his throat and the death tremor in his frame, until someone shouted, They are coming again! and we broke away and ran down to the guns. It proved to be a false alarm, and we retur
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My creed. (search)
e in favor of a free Northern Republic. So am I. But as to boundary lines we differ. While they would fix the Southern boundary of their free Republic at the dividing line between Ohio and Kentucky, Virginia, and the Keystone State, I would wash it with the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. But what shall we do with the slaves? Make free men of them. And with the slaveholding class? Abolish them. And with the Legrees of the plantations? Them, annihilate! Drive them into the sea, as Christ once drove the swine; or chase them into the dismal swamps and black morasses of the South. Anywhere — anywhere — out of the world! I am a Peace-Man — and something more. I would fight and kill for the sake of peace. Now, slavery is a state of perpetual war. I am a Non-Resistant — and something more. I would slay every man who attempted to resist the liberation of the slave. I am a Democrat--and nothing more. I believe in humanity and human rights. I recognize nothing as so s
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My first trip. (search)
pectfully requested to please copy this admirable fashion. That it is of lowly origin is no reason for rejecting it. The Articles on sale at this establishment were of every shade of color, from the almost white to the altogether black. Yet--Christ died for all? There was one man with sharp. features, fine blue eyes, and a most intelligent-looking face. He was what I have heard called a saddle-leather-colored negro. He asked me if I would buy him? Poor fellow! I hadn't quite changection a long editorial article that I had lately read in the North Carolina Baptist Recorder, entitled, The fanaticism of the New England clergy; which was written by a professed minister of the gospel of love, for the purpose of proving that Jesus Christ, the friend of oppressed humanity, was a Southern Rights man; and that God, the Father of our race, whose name is love, had revealed it to be his will that the negro should be, and should be kept as a bondman; and consequently, of course — thi
William A. Smith, DD. President of Randolph-Macon College , and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy., Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery as exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: withe Duties of Masters to Slaves., Lecture II: the abstract principle of the institution of domestic slavery. (search)
ians VI. 5-7: Servants, [dou=loi,] be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your hearts as unto Christ: not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and notChrist, doing the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men. Doing the will of Gold — with good will. We must certainly understand that it was the duty of those slaves to give both assent and consent to their condition, as a thing coming to them in the order of God's providence, and pleasing to him; and therefore serve their masters with the same willing obedience, because therein their understandings; and hence, cheerfully submitting to their providential condition as from the Lord, they obeyed their masters in singleness of heart as unto Christ. They submitted, as any other good man submits, with consent as well as assent to his providential condition, and goes forth to the duties of that condition with
William A. Smith, DD. President of Randolph-Macon College , and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy., Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery as exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: withe Duties of Masters to Slaves., Lecture VI: the abstract principle of slavery discussed on Scripture grounds, and misrepresentations of the principle examined. (search)
blic or in private, declaring the relation of master and slave to be sinful! But, on the contrary, Paul's denunciation.--1 Tim. VI. 3--of the theachers of abolition doctrines, that they consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, is sufficient reason to believe that he was always understood to approve of the relation, and to condemn in express terms all attempts to abolish it as a duty of the religion which he taught. And certain it is, that this relation is made the subject of some of his most eloquent allusions, and the basis of some of his most instructive parables: One is your master, even Christ, Matt. XXIII. 10: Good master, what shall I do? Mark x. 17: No man can serve two masters, Matt. VI. 24--are specimens of the former; whilst the parable, Matt. XIII. 24-28, And the servants said, Wilt thou that we go and gather them up? --of the vineyard, Matt. XXI.; of the talents, Matt. XXV.; and others of a similar nature, are striking examples of th
William A. Smith, DD. President of Randolph-Macon College , and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy., Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery as exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: withe Duties of Masters to Slaves., Lecture XIII: the duty of masters to slaves. (search)
g threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven. Ephesians VI. 9. He hath enjoined upon servants to serve their masters in singleness of heart as unto Christ, with good will doing service as to the Lord, and not to men. Masters are then commanded to do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening; that is, carefuurselves and your slaves. And ye masters, do the same things unto them: that is, as the context shows, serve their interests faithfully, and that for the sake of Christ, as they are required to serve your commands faithfully, and that for the sake of Christ. But how may you do this? You should provide for them the means of puChrist. But how may you do this? You should provide for them the means of public religious instruction. The owner of a large plantation of slaves should charge himself with the expense of a minister of the gospel for his slaves. Smaller plantations should unite to employ the services of a minister. The owners of still smaller plantations in thinly settled communities of whites, should see that the usua
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., X. The churches and Slavery. (search)
e erased by the General Assembly of 1816, in a resolve which characterizes Slavery as a mournful evil, but does not direct that the churches be purged of it. In 1818, a fresh Assembly adopted an Expression of views, wherein Slavery is reprobated as a gross violation of the most precious and sacred rights of human nature, utterly inconsistent with the law of God, which requires us to love our neighbor as ourselves, and totally irreconcilable with the spirit and principles of the gospel of Christ, which enjoin that all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them. But, instead of requiring its members to clear themselves, and keep clear, of slaveholding, the Assembly exhorted them to continue and increase their exertions to effect a total abolition of Slavery, with no greater delay than a regard for the public welfare demands! and recommended that, if a Christian professor shall sell a slave, who is also in communion with our Church --said slave not b
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 11 (search)
ded State; but the Governor (Marcy), though ready to do what he lawfully could to propitiate Southern favor, was constrained respectfully to decline. That error of opinion may be safely tolerated where reason is left free to combat it, Jefferson's Inaugural Address. is a truth that does not seem to have occurred either to the Southern or Northern contemners of the Garrisonian ultras. In fact, it does not seem to have irradiated the minds of the chief priests, scribes and Pharisees of Christ's day, nor those of the hereditary champions of established institutions and gainful traditions at almost any time. The Southern. journals and other oracles imperiously, wrathfully, demanded the instant suppression and extinction of the incendiaries and fanatics, under the usual penalty of a dissolution of the Union; The following is an extract from the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle of October, 1833. We firmly believe that, if the Southern States do not quickly unite, and declare to the N
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 20 (search)
afflictions; and those the most needed blessings of all. And now, when I think how easily I might be left to spoil all I have done or suffered in the cause of Freedom, I hardly dare wish another voyage, even if I had the opportunity. It is a long time since we met; but we shall now soon come together in our Father's house, I trust. Let us hold fast that we already have, remembering we shall reap in due time if we faint not. Thanks be ever unto God. who giveth us the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord. And now, my old warm-hearted friend, Good-bye. Your affectionate cousin, John Brown. The 2d of December was the day appointed for his execution. Nearly three thousand militia were early on the ground. Fears of a forcible rescue or of a servile insurrection prevented a large attendance of citizens. Cannon were so planted as to sweep every approach to the jail, and to blow the prisoner into shreds upon the first intimation of tumult. Virginia held her breath until sh
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 22.-Hudson River Baptist Association, report and resolutions, June 19. (search)
we recognize the truly righteous character of this conflict; that while it may be properly regarded as a war for our nationality, or a war for the life of a constitutional Government, or for the maintenance of our flag, or as a war for the rights of the people against the usurpations of an oligarchy; nevertheless, beyond all these aims, we recognize the existence of a war waged for the absolute supremacy of a despotic earthly power on the one hand, against the rightful dominion of our Lord Jesus Christ, whose kingdom guarantees the inalienable and universal rights of our redeemed humanity, on the other. Resolved, That, in view of the death of our Lord and Saviour for men of every rank and class, of every nation, tribe, kith or kin, we regard the brotherhood of man, the moral and spiritual equality of all the races of men, as an essential doctrine of the Christian religion; that it rests like a sure corner-stone upon the foundation that God hath laid in Zion; that whosoever falleth
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