[Aunt Phillis’s Cabin by Mary H. Eastman]@TWC D-Link bookAunt Phillis’s Cabin CHAPTER VIII 9/23
"The very time that you had come for freedom yourself, you kidnapped the noble sons of the soil, and made menials of them.
I wonder the ground did not cry out against you.
Now we have been left with the curse of slavery upon us, (for it is in some respects a curse on the negro and the white man,) and God may see fit to remove it from us.
But why don't the Abolitionists buy our slaves, and send them to Liberia ?" "That would be against their principles," said Mr.Perkins. "Excuse me, sir," said Mr.Chapman, "but d----n their principles; it is against their pockets.
Why don't those who write Abolition books, give the profits to purchase some of these poor wretches who are whipped to death, and starved to death, and given to the flies to eat up, and burned alive; then I would believe in their principles, or at least in their sincerity. But now the fear is for their pockets.
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