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Excerpt from The Sin of Slavery, the Guilt of the Church, and the Duty of the Ministry: An Address Delivered Before the Abolition Society at New York, on Anniversary Week, 1858
We practice the iniquity upon children, innocent children, the natives of our own land, unbought, unsold, unpaid for, without consultation or consent of father or mother, or the shadow of a permission from the Almighty; and they, the new-born babes of this system, are the compound interest year by year added to the ad its capital, which thus doubles upon us in the next generation, and must treble in another. We make use of the most sacred domestic affections, of maternal, filial, and, I was going to say, connubial love but the system forbids, and I have to say contubernal for such rapid and accumulating production of the iniquity, as shall be in some measure ade quate to the demand. The whole family relation, the whole domestic state, is prostituted, poisoned, turned into a misery making machine for the agent of all evil. What God meant should be the source and inspiration of happiness, becomes the fountain of sin and woe. The sacred names of husband, wife.
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