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.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlnorthern states find that concept too radicalcomyet the extreme abolitionists have been propoundingit for more than a decade.Decent people disagree on both questions just noted.Mr.Justice Story of Connecticut, for example,expressed a majority opinion of the SupremeCourt when the Pennsylvania Act of '26 wasstruck down two years ago.The opinion was foundedon the Court's contention that neither Pennsylvanianor any other individual state has the authorityto prevent the owner of an escaped Negro fromreclaiming him-even if the Negro has reachednon-slave soil.Mr.Story clearly believedthat the owning of slaves confers an unquestionableConstitutional right to recapture that slave-that pieceof property.In further opposition to Garrison and hisfollowers, the opinion also implied that ourAmerican liberties are solely for the benefit ofmembers of the white race.Story and the Courtignored the Constitutional promise of dueprocess.Conclusion-it simply does not applyto any man or woman with dark skin.Who is wrong and who is right? I do not know; I donot know!!May the 27th.There is no way in which I can evade the issue beforethe Conference, so I have given up trying.I am,instead, struggling to reach my own decision.After digesting the various arguments and praying on thewhole matter, I am for the moment tending to side with thefaction which would unseat Bishop Andrew, even though thebishop is clearly a man without onus; aChristian man; a Methodist man; a good man.If my present mood prevails, I will ineffect turn my back on my own dear wife andher family.Am I capable? And is itright?Later.Mr.Polk and Mr.Dallas have been nominatedas presidential candidates by theDemocrats in Baltimore comthe news"telegraphed" for the first time in the nation's history.Either Polk or Mr.Clay, the candidate of theWhigs, will be forced to resolve the stormy issue ofannexation of Texas, Mr.Clay is hiopposition because the Texan Republic has not beenrecognized by Mexico, and there is talk afloatthat annexation will mean war.Of more pertinence, if Texas should be admitted to theUnion, it will come in as a slave state, furtherpromoting sectional strife.It is already known that atreaty of annexation prepared by Secretary ofState Calhoun and currently before the Senate will berebuffed.But opposition to annexation does not endthere.The politicians who espouse Garrison'sradical philosophy are adamantly against theextension of slavery into any new territorywhatsoever-a thorny problem since the country'sPage 92 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlmood is generally expansionist; among some sectorsof the population-the restless and the poor, whose universalanswer to unhappiness or failure is westwardmigration comwildly so.The northern radicals will never be content merely withblocking the admission of new slave territories,however.They would prefer to completelyupset the fragile balance of the "spheres ofinterest" established by the Missouri Compromise'of1820, by means of which slavery was prohibited inall Louisana Purchase lands north ofapproximately the thirty-sixth parallel-Missouri excepted-but made permissible south of thatline, while Maine was admitted as a free stateto balance Missouri's presence.They say former president Jefferson, a very oldman in those days and but five years from his death,spoke of the Compromise as "a fire bell in thenight," warning of a sectional dispute that could rend thenation.I fear he was correct.The abolitionistswant the institution of slavery destroyed wherever itexists, and forbidden forevermore.My wife's people, of course, believe Texas shouldand will come in slave.So no matter how the issue ofadmission is decided, the outcome will onlyprovoke more bad feelings-nationally, and in whatever isleft of the Methodist Episcopal Church after theAndrew question is resolved [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlnorthern states find that concept too radicalcomyet the extreme abolitionists have been propoundingit for more than a decade.Decent people disagree on both questions just noted.Mr.Justice Story of Connecticut, for example,expressed a majority opinion of the SupremeCourt when the Pennsylvania Act of '26 wasstruck down two years ago.The opinion was foundedon the Court's contention that neither Pennsylvanianor any other individual state has the authorityto prevent the owner of an escaped Negro fromreclaiming him-even if the Negro has reachednon-slave soil.Mr.Story clearly believedthat the owning of slaves confers an unquestionableConstitutional right to recapture that slave-that pieceof property.In further opposition to Garrison and hisfollowers, the opinion also implied that ourAmerican liberties are solely for the benefit ofmembers of the white race.Story and the Courtignored the Constitutional promise of dueprocess.Conclusion-it simply does not applyto any man or woman with dark skin.Who is wrong and who is right? I do not know; I donot know!!May the 27th.There is no way in which I can evade the issue beforethe Conference, so I have given up trying.I am,instead, struggling to reach my own decision.After digesting the various arguments and praying on thewhole matter, I am for the moment tending to side with thefaction which would unseat Bishop Andrew, even though thebishop is clearly a man without onus; aChristian man; a Methodist man; a good man.If my present mood prevails, I will ineffect turn my back on my own dear wife andher family.Am I capable? And is itright?Later.Mr.Polk and Mr.Dallas have been nominatedas presidential candidates by theDemocrats in Baltimore comthe news"telegraphed" for the first time in the nation's history.Either Polk or Mr.Clay, the candidate of theWhigs, will be forced to resolve the stormy issue ofannexation of Texas, Mr.Clay is hiopposition because the Texan Republic has not beenrecognized by Mexico, and there is talk afloatthat annexation will mean war.Of more pertinence, if Texas should be admitted to theUnion, it will come in as a slave state, furtherpromoting sectional strife.It is already known that atreaty of annexation prepared by Secretary ofState Calhoun and currently before the Senate will berebuffed.But opposition to annexation does not endthere.The politicians who espouse Garrison'sradical philosophy are adamantly against theextension of slavery into any new territorywhatsoever-a thorny problem since the country'sPage 92 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlmood is generally expansionist; among some sectorsof the population-the restless and the poor, whose universalanswer to unhappiness or failure is westwardmigration comwildly so.The northern radicals will never be content merely withblocking the admission of new slave territories,however.They would prefer to completelyupset the fragile balance of the "spheres ofinterest" established by the Missouri Compromise'of1820, by means of which slavery was prohibited inall Louisana Purchase lands north ofapproximately the thirty-sixth parallel-Missouri excepted-but made permissible south of thatline, while Maine was admitted as a free stateto balance Missouri's presence.They say former president Jefferson, a very oldman in those days and but five years from his death,spoke of the Compromise as "a fire bell in thenight," warning of a sectional dispute that could rend thenation.I fear he was correct.The abolitionistswant the institution of slavery destroyed wherever itexists, and forbidden forevermore.My wife's people, of course, believe Texas shouldand will come in slave.So no matter how the issue ofadmission is decided, the outcome will onlyprovoke more bad feelings-nationally, and in whatever isleft of the Methodist Episcopal Church after theAndrew question is resolved [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]