Slavery A Falling Tower A Lecture On Slavery The Cause Of The Civil War In The United States Delivered At Arley Chapel Bristol June 1862

Author : Zebina Eastman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334946578
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Slavery a Falling Tower written by Zebina Eastman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Slavery a Falling Tower: A Lecture on Slavery the Cause of Civil War in the United States, Delivered at Arley Chapel, Bristol, June, 1862 So great an in uence has this power had in controlling the desti nies of the country, that it is important that it should have in this connection, a complete portrait of its character and features. The first notice-able fact, showing the working of the iniquity, the beginning of the decline, was the strange introduction of cotton -into the United States, not natural to its soil - a beautiful symbol itself of civilization - which the slaveholders have crowned king, and have made subservient to their god - slavery. It came as a timely aid to Satan, in his scheme to destroy that fair heritage of freedom. In like manner he made use of another beautiful symbol of nature, the fruit of the garden, to destroy the fair heritage of holiness in Eden. He is not beneath using any instrumentality within his reach, however, beautiful and pure; the more so, the better for his diabolical pur poses. In the year 17 90, three years only after the Constitution of the country was ordained, the first bale of cotton was transported to England. It proved a commercial prosperity. It helped to change the ideas of men whose morals are measured by profit in the pocket. Then slavery became the badge of a favored class. To say this class were leaders of men, or rulers of men, or teachers of men, would not give them any particular significance as a power. To give them more noble titles, like that given to the lovers of men, or in imitation of one greater - the Saviour of men - they would all be inadequate to raise them much above the level of their fellow-men in dignity and importance; but to say of this class that they are the owners or men, as slaveholders are, then is arrogated to them the highest of human distinction. Therefore in the reign of apostacy the slave holder became a sort of Republican aristocracy. As Mr. Calhoun said, In a democracy it was a substitution for an order of no bility. In your country you are not without the knowledge of the power of caste in society - the in uence of an order of nobility you understand. If rightly directed it may not be without its good; but if wholly misdirected, bent on ends of evil, and that continually, what a curse it may become! Think of the nobility of this land being rivalled by the aristocracy of the Legrees of the plantation 2 The lords of the realm by the cotton lords! 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."