It is not for us to take up arms against them, the war is with them and the lord. But if we are attack we should defend ourselves. We're only here as a witness among them and the Lord himself Behold! the power of the lord,
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| He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the christian king of Great Britain determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold.He has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| That paragraph was referred to by some historians as one of the stronget in the declaration of independence, but it was taken out because of two reasons. Southern states resistance to it, and economic reasons having to do with New England's shipping industry and their lucrative income from the slave trade. It's always about the money, isn't it? It is not for us to take up arms against them, the war is with them and the lord. But if we are attack we should defend ourselves. We're only here as a witness among them and the Lord himself Behold! the power of the lord, |
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