Is Slavery Sinful? - Being Partial Discussions of the Proposition, Slavery Is Sinful #264960

Our country is in a terrible condition. There is a cause, or causes, for its being so. All who love their country themselves and their posterity, should endeavor to ascertain the cause or causes of our present unhappy condition as a people, that by removing the cause of our troubles, we may restore the public health, vigor and prosperity.<br><br>It is alleged by the dominant party, that the sin of slavery is the cause of our calamities. If, however, slavery is not sinful, this is a false allegation. Hence, it behoves us all to examine the proposition, and ascertain correctly and satisfactorily whether it is true or false, that slavery is sinful. For, if the proposition is false, as the powers that be, the men who control the destinies of this great people, base their action upon the assumed truth of the proposition, they are shedding rivers of blood, and wasting millions of treasure, and making thousands of widows and orphans, carrying devastation, fire and sword throughout the land, and sweeping with the besom of destruction the fairest and hitherto the most blest and prosperous portion of Gods foot-stool, upon a falsehood. If this is the true state of affairs, how great and how dreadful is the responsibility upon us as a nation and people! and how incumbent it is upon us to drop the falsehood, seek the truth, and pursue it! I am clearly satisfied that the proposition is false.