July 21, 1848
From the Non-Resistant, is a series of statements, in sarcastic style. Here is a sampling:
Common Paradoxes
A republican slaveholder.
An anti-slavery Constitutionalist.
An anti-teetotaler temperance man.
A military Christian.
A righteous war.
The foreign slave trade is piracy; the domestic slave trade is lawful commerce.
Slaveholding is the sum of all crimes; but covenanting with slaveholders to help them hold slaves is perfect innocency.
To pray for war, pestilence and famine, would be most abominable; to cause war, pestilence, and famine, by voting and fighting to produce them, is Christian patriotism.
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