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Picture of Slavery in the United States of America ^^ a PICTURE rjp IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Is there not some chosen curre Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who gains his fortune from the blood of souls ? GOWFER. EDWIN HUNT h ^(t A ,h H N qw^(jiotMi^ U Enteiied according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1834, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York 3 7-.X^_, A Woman exchanged for a Ram and JSheep. Page 110. THIS PICTURE OF AMERICAN SliAVERY IS INSCRIBED TO EVERY MEMBER OF THE AXD TO ALL OTHER PHILANTHROPISTS WHO ARE OPPOSED TO MAX-STEAIilNG, BY THEIR Faithful Coadjutor, GEORGE BOURNE. THE ENGRAVINGS. PAGE. 1. Title Page.—A Woman exchanged for a Ram and Sheep, . 110» ^ 2. Selling Females by the pound, 88 . " 3. Family amalgamation among the Men-stealers, . 91 4. A Slave Plantation, 94 5. Flogging American Women, 95 6. Ladies whipping Girls, 109 7. Exchanging Citizens for Horses, 106 8. Auction at Richmond, Ill .' ^ 9. Kidnapping, , . 120 10. Torturing American Citizens, . 129 11. Tanning a Boy, 145 ; EXORDIUM. Where is the charter found to sanctify Despotic, base, unqualified control, O'er strength and icill, by man enthroned o'er man ? In Revelation's code you find it not, Nor in Creation's multifarious laws. The will of Heaven, when unrevealed by Christ, Or by the sacred organs of his word, Is sought and found in the primeval light, Which Nature sheds through her expanded spheres. But w^hen with Gospel-day this light combines, The Fool who doubts, who asks for clearer proof Must hood-wink'd be indeed, and darkness love. That such resistless evidence obtains. To evince Demoniac Slavery's turpitude, With all the powers of brightest Truth appears, To the impartial mind that views each source, Whence the full streams of testimony flow. Each text of Sacred Writ enjoining love, Affection, justice, mercy, meekness, peace, And piety, establishes this truth. That Slavery contravenes the law of God! Point to me the man Who will not lift his voice against the trade In human souls and blood, and I pronounce, That he nor loves his country nor his God. Is he a Christian, then, who holds in bonds His brethren ; cramps the vigour of their minds Usurps entire dominion o'er their wills, Bars from their souls the light of moral day, The image of the great Eternal Spirit Obliterating thence ? Before your God, Whose holy eye pervades the secret depths Of every heart, do you who hold inthrall'd Your fellow-being's liberty believe That you are guiltless of a dammng crime ? I* ! — 6 EXORDIUM. Be undeceived—and cleanse from guilt and blood Your crimson'd conscience and polluted hands. Ye Gospel-Promulgators ! why so dumb Upon this solemn theme, to which each ray Of Revelation points ? And has the world Such fascination, such corrupting power, And vile intimidation's force, as thus To paralyze the energies divine Of Satan's combatants, that they will yield To his blood-feasting hosts without one blow ? —But hark ! v^-hence rolls that thundering peal, Which shakes astonish'd Mammon's glittering mounds, And rouses all the fierce and clamorous ire Of his tyrannic votaries ? Lo! begirt With the impervious mail of martyr'd zeal, And golden truth, a little phalanx stands. Upon the heaven defended batteries Of Gospel-Law, and aims the artillery Of holy eloquence, against the dark, The massy battlements of tyranny. Thence tis, that those convulsing thunders break, Which fire the sons of Avarice with rage. Persist, ye reverend Veterans ! for the cause In which your hallow'd banner is unfurPd, Embraces all that makes existence dear. Undaunted band of Christian Patriots, hail May Victory's bays your honour'd temples crown, And your reward be those delights supreme Which store the magazines of heavenly bliss Whose melodies divine, no human ear Has known ; whose charms unmatch'd no earthly eye Has seen ; and whose exhaustless excellence, The mind and heart of man have ne'er conceived. ; NOTICE The first essay in this cornpend, is an amended reprint of a work formerly published under the title of " the Book and Slavery irreconcilable. '''' It has not only been alter- ed, but part of it has been written, since the contest with the kidnappers has assumed its existing, definite and tangible form. The engravings illustrate slavery as it may noiu be seen in its various degrees of turpitude, among all classes of American man-stealers, whether they are avowed infidels, or nominal Christians. If, however, any southern preaching slave driver, or his northern clerical accessory, " who when he sees the thief consents with him" should exhibit sufficient effi-ontery to deny the graphical accuracy of the picture ; they can have the names of their brethren, and all the other circumstances more minutely detailed. In that case, as some of the parties are yet living, they may hear in reply, the direct application of the truth, equally appropriate as that which Nathan enforced upon David, when the king having con- demned the audacious criminal whose case Avas presented to his consideration, with prophetic authority the servant of Jehovah sternly said, " Thou art the man." These pages emanate not from unchristian sensibilities. Gospel charity requires not that we should believe a lie to be truth., or injustice to be probity., or that he ivho stcaleth his brother, makes merchandise of him, sells him, or if he be found in his hand, whom the word of God proclaims to be a thief, is an honest man and a Christian. Slavery is condemned the uprightness of those pretences which oppressors offer, why they should be considered Christians, is the subject of investigation ; and the melioration of the church and of our country is the motive which produced, and the ob- ject which is desired by this publication. The contest is for the sacred cause of truth ; and however severe it may 8 PICTURE OF SLAVERY. be when individualised in its application, the sentiments are in full unison with the holy scriptures, and with every honest man's unsophisticated convictions; therefore, to temporize would be criminal " A rough truth is better than a smooth falsehood." That delinquent is peculiarly guilty, icho calls evil good, hittei- sweet, darkness light ; or who endeavours so to commingle them, that no difference is discernible between the requisitions of religion and the solicitations of vice. No desire is felt to propitiate professing Christians, while thev steal " souls and hands." Their guilt against God and man who hold slaves in Columbia, is equal to his criminalitv, who sails to Congo and kidnaps a cargo of Afri- cans ; and it is altogether a burlesque upon every thing sacred for a man-robber to pretend to Christianity ; and far more dishonourable and injurious to the church, to per- mit him to preach, and rule in the spiritual affairs of im- mortals. Many persons to whom the severest censures apply as slave-holders, possess other estimable qualities; but can that man be a Christian who enslaves his coloured neigh- bour, who unmercifully whips her, although far advanced in pregnancy, who gives her no comfort of any species for her services, and then sells her with her offspring for an increased price, on account of the children whom he had kidnapped ? Such men would immure their \v\\[ie fellow- citizens in bondage, and ingulph them in similar misery. No argument is requisite to justify a work which ho- nestly defends the rights of man, and opposes "a licensed system of wholesale robbery and murder," and maintains the eternally paramount claims of equity and mercy; which develops the absurdity of all pretensions to pure and vndcfiled religion in him whose whole life is a ceaseless rotation of stealing and cruelty; points the path of duty to 'he upright inquirer; and which expostulates Avith those whose diurnal practice is a continual violation of the spirit and letter of the moral law, a flagrant departure from the steps of the Redeemer and his primitive servants, and an open disgrace to republicanism and Christianity. INTRODUCTORY. The corruption of the human heart and the deceitful- ness which accompanies it are inconceivable. Among the various modes by which they are displayed, the detention of men in bondage indefinite, should receive unmitigated execration : and the principles upon which slave-holding is defended, with the characters of those who engage in its support, are most melancholy demonstratioDS of duplicity, and of that promptitude with which men can be deluded to change the ti'uth of God into a lie. Is it not a fact too alarming to be recorded without the utmost dread, and will it not in futurity be deemed almost incredible, that a system which includes horrors tenfold more than Egyp- tian servitude is incorporated Aviih most of the religious! and civil institutions, which are established in this land of boasted freedom ? Will subsequent ages credit so mon- strous a statement: that preachers of the gospel, eighteen hundred years after angels had sung, on earth, peace, good icill to men, were characterized as proverbially devoted participants in all the enormities and iniquity of man- stealing? and nearly sixty years after the promulgation of the Columbian Declaration of Independence, practica- bly reprobated its self-evident truths, as unsound proposi- tions, because their covetousness, and their barbarous rob- bery of the rights of man would have been restrained. That any persons should have imbibed effrontery suffi- cient to commence and persist in an infernal trade with the bodies and souls of men, where the illumination of the Gospel determines our duties, responsibility, and destiny, is proof more than ample, of the innate tendency of the ha- man race to every moral obliquity.
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