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Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler

CHAPTER XXVI
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Steele and Bro.

Humber expressed themselves as coinciding with my views much more than with the views of Bro.

Cox, who held the ultra Southern, John C.Calhoun theory of slavery.

It appeared that these brethren held that if Providence has given to the Caucasian descendants of Japheth, a fairer skin, a higher style of intellectual power, and greater force of will, that the same divine Providence has given to the sons of Ham a darker color to their skin; but that all are alike the children of the love of one common Father; that Jesus died for all, and that he will not suffer with impunity any indignity to be offered even to one of the least of these his brethren.

To the inquiry why these brethren did not give that freedom to their colored servants which they asserted was their natural right, they made reply, alleging the unfriendly legislation not only of the slave States, but of the free States; and that had interposed grave difficulties in the way of such a step.


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