Opis: Our Duty to the African Race - Fuller Richard

Excerpt from Our Duty to the African Race: An Address Delivered at Washington, D. C., January 21, 1851

Address.

Mr. President and Fellow Citizens -

An humble pastor, occupied with the spiritual cares and labors of my ministry in Baltimore, I have declined all invitations to visit other cities for the purpose of addressing public meetings. I have found the duties of my charge enough, and more than enough, for all my time. As I am not a member of any Colonization Society, I was somewhat surprised on receiving the kind request of your board to meet with you to-night. I felt and appreciated the honor done me. But I felt much more: I esteemed it a call from God to enlist myself in an enterprise, the importance, the grandeur, nay, I will say the absolute necessity, of which, ought, I humbly think, to be perceived by every citizen of this Union. I ask permission, therefore, to express myself with the utmost freedom, as I utter only my own sentiments, and speak for no particular Society, - but for Colonization at large.

I am a Southern man, and surely your Society ought to be as popular with the whole South as it is in Virginia, Georgia, and other Southern States. It was originated by Southern influence. Its object is the retromission to Africa of free colored persons who desire to go there. To this article of its constitution your Society has strictly adhered. Indeed, it is absurd to suppose that this article can ever be violated. Why then should any man at the South object to this undertaking And is it not most strange that men at the North should proclaim themselves the friends of the African race, and yet resist and calumniate an association formed for such a purpose

Mr. President, patriotism was once a word of high and holy import. It was, in the ancient States of Greece, a sort of religion, a loyalty to country, which mastered and controlled all other feelings. All other relations - of parent, and husband, and child - were subordinated to the relation which existed between the citizen and the State. Patriotism was once a term of glorious emphasis.

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Nazwa: Our Duty to the African Race An Address Delivered at Washington, D. C., January 21, 1851 (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Fuller Richard
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330228456
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 22
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
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