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Spanish Civil War: Tucker Alfred G.ABAA

SPANISH POLITICAL & RELIGIOUS PRISONERS. IS IT NOTHING TO YOU ALL YE THAT PASS BY wrapper title

SPIRITUALIST CIVIL WAR SPEECHABAA

A Spiritualist Minister Decries The Morality Of The North The South And The Whole Civil War â€“ â€œMassachusetts Abolished Slavery Because They Could Not Make It Profitableâ€¦Stated That The Northern People Were Greater Slaves Than The Southern Niggersâ€¦Moral Suasion Is The Only Way To Abrogate Slavery & There Is No Othersâ€¦They Are No Spiritualists If They Do Not For Their Dessenent Saith Notâ€

4297SPIRITUALISM. A religious movement centered on communication with the dead. It was very popular in 19th-century Europe and America. MDS. 8pgs. N.d. Civil War era N.p. probably Vermont. A handwritten transcript of a speech given by a Spiritualist minister. In a long and cutting speech Rev. Gibson Smith a minister from South Shaftsbury Vermont criticized the Civil War the Union and many American politicians of the era. Though he seems to have supported the abolitionist cause â€“ as did most Spiritualists â€“ Smith decried the war itself believing that the north was as immoral and self-serving as the south. He speaks frequently of morality versus law considering the former to be more powerful than the latter. Smith also complains about the persecution of Spiritualists by numerous politicians. Smith mentions several times the possibility of Stephen Douglas becoming the next President. The transcript is signed â€œA. Thompson Rep.â€ at the bottom presumably by the man who recorded it. â€œRev. Gibson Smith Spritualist. The speakers began by saying that though Religion & politics out not to go together but he thought differently that political were the purest principles next to religion there is extant. Stated he was no scheming politician & was not â€˜as had been assertedâ€™ hired by C K Smart & went on to prove it by stating that he had only 10 cts in his pocket & that he had lived on one meal per day so much was he devoted to his principles. Went on to speak of Burlingame & stated afterwards that the Constitution was adopted in 1781 and when it was adopted it found the Colonies all slave states & stated that Massachusetts abolished slavery because they could not make it profitable & would not have done so if they could & that the people of Mass had no sympathy for niggers & never will have. Stated that the northern people were greater slaves than the southern niggers because they were made subservient to domineering churches & sectarianâ€¦That the south were honest and believed slavery a divine institution & prove it from the Bible & you regard it a moral evil â€˜They have as much right to their opinion as you & it is none of your business to interfere with it. Want you to call your ministers in I want to talk to them you have got mad at this thing of slavery & this quarrel is a monstrous thing between the north & south. You talk about a Higher Law what is your higher law it causes you to trample upon the constitution & laws of your country. You never knew a legal enactment to do away with a moral evil. Cited the Maine Law as an instance & said there was as much liquor drank now as there ever was before Cheers Moral suasion is the only way to abrogate slavery & there is no others. How did your churches regard the higher laws let us see when the Washingtonion movement came up they opposed it to the last end! When this ramrod law came up how did they to They went in for it to a man! The Democrats are for moral suasion in all things. A word to spiritualists you believe in progression & that progression is from wrong to right. Now slavery has steadily advanced under your doctrine of intervention. Your doctrine has caused you to repudiate your higher law. If you oppose slavery as having its equal share of the territories the south will dissolve the Union! & justly to! Douglass will be the next president & he will prevent this. The South drove slavery into Kansas & the north drove it out. Washburn endorsed Helpers Book & 11 other republican members of the House of Representatives. Slavery must have more territory or this great increase will overflow the south & you will have to cut their throats to make room for the others to live. Fessenden is an abolitionist. Speaking of the taxes in Maine he said there was $20000000 worth of church property in maine not taxed & said all property ought to be taxed. So you the people have to pay the taxes that should be levied upon this property. Some rich men buy $5000 dollars worth of pews in your churches & sent them at a money making rate & it is all clear of taxation. This is no donation they do it to speculate! The ministerial exemption law was smuggled through the legislature and there is no report other than the law itself upon record no report in the newspapers the law itself is a disgrace to the state for it helps only the rich & poor Methodist ministers get nothing by it. They abuse & persecute me & I have to help pay their taxes for them by the force of your statue law. Nothing to say about Peck the Rep. Leaders are dishonest but the voters are not & the speaker goes on to advise them to vote for smart and Douglass if they want to be honest & they certainly will be elected for all the boys are for them. Rust of the Progressive Age tried to put me down & came in and disturbed my meeting & threatened to call the police before he would be quiet. Simonton of Camden tried to stamp me down when I spoke in opposition to Grimes but I stood until they got tired of for I would have stood all might but I would have spoken & then he saved me the next day when I went into his shop & that is gods truth. The speakers said he stumped the state of Vermont for Fremont in â€™56 and he should not have turned democrat if they had not drove him to it. Luke P Rand & G.W. Brown turned when they were driven to it by the Republicans. Remmings of Boston donated a printing press worth $5â€™00 to the spiritualists of Maine & G.W. Brown was to conduct the paper & Remmings was informed that Brown calculated to blow for the democracy & he came to get the press away but Brown would not give it up & Remmings put the law to it & stopped it while it was running off its edition before the papers were half printed. He persecuted Brown & put his wife & remaining child for one lay dead in the house when they seized the press in a common pest house pretending that they were going to have the small pox & when Brown was gone from home & they had no protestors they kept them there 4 weeks & Brown had to threaten to prosecut sic to get them out. The names of the men that did this as Frost Straw & Snow. Speaker goes on to tell the spiritualists to vote against them because they have done it & tells them they are no spiritualists if they do not for their dessenent saith not. A. Thompson Rep.â€ In fair condition with some toning on each page. This is quite a speech and it must have been quite something to hear it in person. Itâ€™s difficult to know what the man who copied it down thought of it. The thread binding that once held the sheets together has come apart so all leaves are now separate. unknown books

Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. · États-Unis300,00 $US≈ 253,83 €

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