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Excerpt from A Discourse on the Subject of American Slavery: Delivered in the First Congregational Meeting House, in Mendon, Mass, July 4, 1837 What then shall we say to these things? What shall we think, when we reflect that persons, or about one sixth part of the whole population of this Union, are hem med in and crushed down by such a system of studied, legal despotism as this? What can we say, when we reflect that the murky cloud lowers over one half the States of this great and. 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.

Excerpt from Hebrew and American Slavery: A Discourse This Sermon is not given to the Press by the author, or the friends who solicit it for publication, with the belief that it contains anything new, but as a concise abridgment of works on the subject in another form of argument, and so brief, that it is hoped some may be benefited who will not read a book on the subject, and some who hear much about political preaching, and have much to say about it, who do not know what it means, being rarely found in church. Again, they believe in times like these, every man should strike for his country who has a sword, and if he has none, should sell his coat and buy one. If he cannot strike a heavy blow - still he should strike - strike as he can. He may wound the sin, if he cannot kill it; he may excite a new thought if he cannot originate one. To be indifferent in a time like this, is to be a traitor to his country, to his religion if it be the Christian religion, and he has any. Nothing we have should be held too dear for the altar of God and a good government in danger. If it is but little we have - a straw breaks the camel's back, a dust turns the balance, a drop overflows the bowl. 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.

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