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244 The North Carolina Historical Commission
Party—the most prominent public men of a great Section
of the country—and, worse still, the sworn officials, the
Governors, Judges, National and State Law-Makers,
—
actually conspired and plotted to break the laws, (not
alone the Statute law, but the moral law as well!)—by
making "Raids" upon their fellow-citizens, invading
their section at night to seize and bear away their most
valuable property, ruining their estates, terrifying their
women and children, and in numerous cases burning
their very homes over their heads 1 Yea, verily ! It is the
truth ; few now deny it ; many of the plotters now glorify
themselves for their deeds, and enjoy high offices and
honors as the fruits of successful conspiracy!
The reader will surmise that I allude to the Abolition-ist
Organization to defy the Fugitive Slave Laws, vio-late
the Federal Constitution, invade peaceful states, and
involve the Land in Civil War, known as the "Under-
Ground Railroad/' Gerrit Smith told me, personally,
he had given more than $6,000, and many years of his
time to assist in operating this gigantic scheme of rob-bery.
A Northern member of Congress, speaking upon
the floor of the National Legislature boasted that more
than 50,000 (worth near $100,000) negroes were every
year carried off from Southern plantations by this mid-night
Clutch Klan ! The financial damage, however, was
but a trifle, considered with the aggregation of annoy-ance,
alarm, demoralization, and distress, joined with
fierce anger and thirst for retaliation, provoked by these
lawless inroads. And who can measure the detriment to
the cause of humanity—to the slave himself. It is well-known
that Southern Servitude was of an unusual
character—(partaking largely of the patriarchial family
service universal in the days of Moses, and Solomon and
Christ,—the three great chiefs of scriptural Religion)
until the Abolition, South-hating agitation taught South-erners
to draw the lines more closely, curtailing the priv-ileges,
and circumscribing the liberty of the "Man-ser-vant"
and " Maid-servant/
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| Full Text | 244 The North Carolina Historical Commission Party—the most prominent public men of a great Section of the country—and, worse still, the sworn officials, the Governors, Judges, National and State Law-Makers, — actually conspired and plotted to break the laws, (not alone the Statute law, but the moral law as well!)—by making "Raids" upon their fellow-citizens, invading their section at night to seize and bear away their most valuable property, ruining their estates, terrifying their women and children, and in numerous cases burning their very homes over their heads 1 Yea, verily ! It is the truth ; few now deny it ; many of the plotters now glorify themselves for their deeds, and enjoy high offices and honors as the fruits of successful conspiracy! The reader will surmise that I allude to the Abolition-ist Organization to defy the Fugitive Slave Laws, vio-late the Federal Constitution, invade peaceful states, and involve the Land in Civil War, known as the "Under- Ground Railroad/' Gerrit Smith told me, personally, he had given more than $6,000, and many years of his time to assist in operating this gigantic scheme of rob-bery. A Northern member of Congress, speaking upon the floor of the National Legislature boasted that more than 50,000 (worth near $100,000) negroes were every year carried off from Southern plantations by this mid-night Clutch Klan ! The financial damage, however, was but a trifle, considered with the aggregation of annoy-ance, alarm, demoralization, and distress, joined with fierce anger and thirst for retaliation, provoked by these lawless inroads. And who can measure the detriment to the cause of humanity—to the slave himself. It is well-known that Southern Servitude was of an unusual character—(partaking largely of the patriarchial family service universal in the days of Moses, and Solomon and Christ,—the three great chiefs of scriptural Religion) until the Abolition, South-hating agitation taught South-erners to draw the lines more closely, curtailing the priv-ileges, and circumscribing the liberty of the "Man-ser-vant" and " Maid-servant/ ' |
