Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1 Page: 294 of 444
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CHAPTER IX.
Negro Slavery-Electro-magnetic Machine-Health of the ClergyReligious
Liberty-The connection between Science and Religion
-Exhibition of Modern Pictures-Phrenological Society of New
York-Jersey City-Social Condition of New York-Public Opinion-Influence
of the Clergy-Dissection of the Brain-Fires in
New York-British Ignorance of the State of Religion in America.-William
Augustus Conway and Mrs Piozzi-Attendance on
Lectures and Resolutions of my Class-Christmas-Salaries of
Public Officers -Life Assurance-Public Grounds deficient for Air
and Exercise in New York.
1838.
Negro Slavery.-Nothing in the United States has
surprised me so much as the general tone of the public
mind and the press on the subject of slavery.
The institutions of America profess to be based on
justice, and certainly an all-pervading justice is indispensable
to their permanence and success; yet
the most cruel injustice is perpetrated on the Negro
race, and defended, as if it were justice, by persons
whose character and intelligence render them in every
other respect amiable and estimable. This is a
canker in the moral constitution of the country, that
must produce evil continually until it is removed.
Those who defend slavery deny the right of foreigners
to interfere with it; they speak of it as a domestic
institution, with which nobody has any concern
except the legislatures of the States in which it exists,
and on this ground the House of Representatives
of the United States, at Washington, on the 11th
December current, refused to receive any petitions
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Combe, George, 1788-1858. Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1, book, 1841; Edinburgh, Scotland. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1028/m1/294/?q=%221838%3F%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.