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p-T sW---* r' \ \ Far th#« |«T. T. M. r«U«rl»a.Ran T* AL JfvujuiTON, Sir:—I hate perused y$ur nata published in the Pioneer of the 18th, with pain and aerrow, that you should disregard*N t^r fP#l.iWt “f humMit7 b7 rejoicing, at , ^ou dafiiv^f the decision of the five slaveholdmg Judges iu the Dred Scott case. Four years ago, Sir, we listened to-your teachings as a Christian •M** »“ J°»r congregation as you aa-pounded the W ord of God, and had the firmest oonfidenoe in the sincerity of your religious exhortations, little thinking that you would turn your back open as aa soon because of our color, and chuokle, as you now seem to do, over the perpetual thralldom of our race. May I ask whf is this sudden change in your social and religious feelings—why you get so jubilant orer this extra* judicial opinion ? Is it beoause it robs me of my birthright, and comes like a blighting curse upon all of us fraa colorsd Americans—blighting our hopes, blasting onr future, prostrating our energies, sinking our manhood, and making us strangers to our fathers* homestead and aliens in the land of our birth ? Or, ia it beeanse it sanctions the deoisionyou had previously made, that “negroes are not oitioens,” benoa have no rights under the Constitution, and oonfirms it by adding what you only lacked the courage to say, that “the descendants of the African raoe hare no rights which white men are bound te respect, but may [all of them] be reduced to slavery and boH and sold as merchandise I” And planting yourse f on this plntform, you eleotioneer for “Democracy” in a manner unbecoming a Gospel minister, and sneer at all who oppose and condemn this monstrous wrong! 1 “may bo reduced to slavery,” “under the Constitution,” and you will smile over your “decision” while my ehains are being forged!(if
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Saint Paul Minnesota Weekly Times
Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Sat, Mar 28, 1857
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