The slaveholders purposely kept them in ignorance--kept them from books, and schools, and newspapers more carefully, more persistently than they did their slaves.
In their ignorance, these two factions of the same laboring class of the South were made to believe that their interests were antagonistic instead of identical, and that the slaveholders were the mutual enemies of each.
Through this ignorance, the "poor whites" of the South were ruled even more despotically than the slaves; and through this ignorance the slaveholders of the South were enabled to commit the greatest of wrongs against humanity.
It was an every-day occurrence for slaveholders who were in active rebellion against the Government that he was serving, to come into his camps under flag of truce and demand and receive their runaway slaves.
During that period the free portion of this Union has grown to an overwhelming superiority over the slave portion, and compelled the slaveholders to draw the sword to save themselves from material and providential destruction.
Every State was nominally a Slave State; but slaveholders were divided into two classes.
But the slaveholders knew how fallacious was this aid.
But the slaveholdersknew that now was just the time to strike.
The slaveholders knew him for their clear-headed enemy, and drove him out of the arena of national politics.
Besides all this, the slaveholders wanted Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri in the Southern Confederacy, while the majority of the people of those States wanted to stay in the Union.
They were not willing to acknowledge that the slaveholders were their masters.
This, I think, will be news to many non-slaveholders in the gentleman's district.
There is, however, another test by which we can try the accuracy of what the gentleman has said about the non-slaveholders of the South.
We have heard of the sparkles of liberty that are made manifest to the non-slaveholders of the South.
Yet the man who would make this claim, would be just as reasonable as he who should claim that the rights of Virginia are invaded because her slaveholders are not permitted to take slaves into Kansas or Nebraska.
I replied that the slaveholdersknew how to keep such things from their slaves, and probably very few knew of his proclamation.
Doubtless some slaveholders were degraded sensualists, but such were exceptions to the rule.
It is a matter of utter indifference to the ex-slaveholders what this calumnious little fice says about them, if he will but refrain from voiding his fetid rheum upon their families.
Now my intention in writing to Hamilton was to serve these slaveholders by defeating them.
If slaveholders wish to call on me they will find me here, unless I have business away.
If this be so, as all the power and honors of this country are won mainly by intellectual superiority, it might be fairly presumed, that slaveholders would not be neglectful of education.
On this ground, appeals are constantly made to the non-slaveholders of the South, to induce them to abolish slavery; assigning as a reason, that their lands would rise in value so as to more than compensate the loss of the slaves.
In Texas slaveholderswere called to organize a State, (not in this Union at the time,) which in 1850 had a population of two hundred and twelve thousand five hundred and ninety-two.
This is evident from the fact that he everywhere commends those slaveholders who deem it their duty, as a return for the service of their slaves, to promote both their temporal and eternal good.
The number, however, of slaveholders who entertain these scruples is comparatively small.
This agitation occasions some slaveholdersto hang more loosely on their country.
The effrontery ofslaveholders was matched by the sordidness of the Eastern members.
The facts which we have now examined, if they prove any thing, prove that religion has prospered more among slaveholders at the South, than it has among free men in New England.
For this much is certain, that if institutions are to be judged by their results in the composition of the councils of the Union, the slaveholders are much more ably represented than the simple freemen.
Slaveholders have made a much more extensive and suitable provision for the people of all classes to hear the gospel, than has been made by the freemen of New England.
Is it not strange (she herself being judge) that New England orthodoxy and personal freedom should beget this vast amount of infidelity; while slaveholders and slavery have begotten so little of it in the same length of time?
Heretofore the slaveholders have uniformly, by enforcing the previous question, imposed their several gags by a silent vote.
But, as the Slaveholders could not destroy the lives of the Abolitionists, they determined to murder their characters.
If with this right, Abolitionists may take office and help Liberty, we must remember that by the same rule, slaveholders may take office and lawfully use all their power to help Slavery.
The tone in which opposite political journals denounce the late outrage may warn the slaveholders that they will not much longer hold the north in bonds.
Why, what have our slaveholders been about these two hundred years?
He has in mind here, of course, the conservative slaveholders of the border States who had for a number of years felt that slavery was an economic evil of which the country should rid itself gradually by systematic efforts.
Then the slaveholders of the South, with the copperheads of the North, tried to force their slaves or their slave influence into every State and territory of the United States.
After the Mexican War the Southern slaveholdersand copperheads of the North got it into their heads to extend slavery throughout the borders of the United States.
It had originated with slaveholders and was protected by them to rid the country of free Negroes.
Only, in the Kentucky mountains, there were more slaveholdersthan elsewhere in the mountains in the South.
Thus, indirectly they supported the institution in that they were advancing the argument set forth by slaveholders during that great crisis.
It was an extraordinary and actual invasion, by a sectional organization, specially upon slaveholders and upon their property in negro slaves.
Craft remarked in a very dry manner, "If they were in Georgia, the slaveholders would make them walk in a more hurried gait than they do.
How I wished that the many slaveholders and pro-slavery professed Christians of America, who have read and pondered the philosophy of this man, could have been present.
The slaveholders by this time had dismounted, and were in the front of the barn demanding admittance, and charging the farmer with secreting their slave woman, for George was still in the dress of a woman.
Of course, this was very vexatious to slaveholders in the French colonies.
Mrs. Sophia Auld had earned her own living before her marriage, and she had not yet acquired the ways of slaveholders toward servants.
But some of the neighboring slaveholders said Frederick was a dangerous fellow; that he knew too much,--they would not have him tampering with their slaves; and if he was not sent out of the neighborhood they would shoot him.
This return of the old slaveholders excited some uneasiness among the black laborers.
Being slaveholders, they manifested the same selfishness that white slaveholders did.
Slaveholders were very angry that one of their escaped chattels should produce such an excitement.
He felt safe; for there were so many Abolitionists and so many intelligent colored people in New Bedford, that slaveholdersdid not venture to go there to hunt for fugitives.
It was near Christmas-time, when kind slaveholders sometimes permit favorite slaves to be absent on a visit to friends or relatives.
The slaveholders mounted the English cockade, and entered into alliance with Great Britain, while their revolted slaves joined the Spanish.
He picked up bits of newspapers wherever he could find them, and he listened attentively when he heard slaveholders talking about the Northern States and cursing the Abolitionists.
But their request gave rise to the question who should have the right to be members of such an Assembly; and, for the following reasons, that question was very annoying to the haughty slaveholders of St. Domingo.
Mr. and Mrs. Crafts had many zealous friends in Boston, but the friends of the slaveholders were more numerous.
Most of the wealthy Spanish slaveholders made arrangements to depart to Cuba and other neighboring islands.
The next day I was tried by a jury of slaveholders for the crime of having within me the heart of a man, and protecting my sister from the licentious embrace of a libertine.
At the bidding of slaveholders and serviles, they seized the image of God, bound their fellow-man with chains, and consigned him to torture and premature death under the lash of a piratical overseer.
You will recollect how far the slaveholders had progressed in their great rebellion at that date.
The slaveholders were alarmed by this new movement at the North.
These were the Crittenden Compromise, including territory "hereafter acquired," and the right of slaveholders to pass with their slaves through the free states with protection to their slave property in transit.
Neither of our young masters would allow his hands to be beaten or abused, as many slaveholders would; but every year they sold one or more of them,--sometimes as many as six or seven at a time.
One of the slaveholders said he could prove that she was his property; and then they forcibly tied her, put her into a carriage, and started for Maryland.
He denied it, and said that Carter had fought for Henry with him, but the slaveholders being too strong for them, they had to give him up.
One day word was sent to me that slaveholders had taken William Dorsey, and had put him into Lancaster jail to await a trial.
We would hear of slaveholders or kidnappers every two or three weeks; sometimes a party of white men would break into a house and take a man away, no one knew where; and, again, a whole family would be carried off.
From those I conclude that he was in no way peculiar, but should be classed with those slaveholders who are not remarkable either for the severity or the indulgence they extend to their people.
McKenzie, the tavern-keeper referred to, boasted after this that he would entertain all slaveholders who came along, and help them recapture their slaves.
We felt that something must be done, for some one must be in our midst with whom the slaveholders had communication.
Slaveholders are particular to keep the pedigree and age of favorite horses and dogs, but are quite indifferent about the age of their servants, until they want to purchase.
We believe that the primitive Christians held slaves in bondage, and that the apostles favored slavery, by admitting slaveholders into the Church, and by promoting them to official stations in the Church.
Clergymen lay aside their Bibles at the North, and females, as in the case of that model beauty, Harriet Beecher Stowe, unsex themselves to carry on this horrid and slanderous warfare against slaveholders of the South!
Now, it is notorious that the gospel made considerable progress among the citizens of the Roman empire; and, as nearly every family owned slaves, it is certain that slaveholders were converted and admitted into the Church.
Although the evils of it are greatly exaggerated, its evils and cruelties, its barbarities, are not justified by the most ultra slaveholders of this age.
But to the proof that slaveholders were admitted into the apostolic Churches: 1.
There were, therefore, slaveholders in full communion at Colosse.
It is well known at the South how slaveholders usually murmured when comparing their style of living with that of capitalists in the hireling States of equal nominal wealth.
So that this membership of slaveholders had continued for these periods.
There were still slaveholders then, in this church, three or four years after its organization; and Timothy is commanded to have them treated as brethren faithful and beloved, partakers of the favour of God.
It remains true, therefore, that this allowed membership of slaveholdersin the apostolic churches, proves it no sin to own slaves.
Here, therefore, must have been slaveholders in good standing in this favourite church, which was organized under St. Paul's own eye.
Now, if the rest of Christendom have determined to take slaveholders for their pet objects of abuse, we may justly demand of them, at least, to distribute their hard words more generally, and give all a share.
Now when we consider how jealously the apostles guarded the purity of the church, it will appear to be incredible that they should receive slaveholders thus, if the relation were unrighteous.
This was asserted of theslaveholders of Virginia and the Carolinas by the sagacious Burke.
We now proceed, in the sixth place, to a fact of still greater force: that slaveholders were admitted by Christ to full communion and good standing in the Christian church.
Last year, a numerous assemblage of delegates of the Congregational churches adopted the following resolution: "Slaveholding is immoral, and slaveholders should not be admitted as members of Christian churches.
Following the Old Testament analogy, he conceived of the slaveholders as the enemies of God--like the Canaanites; and he came to imagine for himself a mission like one of the Hebrew leaders.
It established and re-established the control of the great radical slaveholders over the non-slaveholders, the little slaveholders, and the more liberal of the larger slaveholders, which had already begun to be loosened.
It gave thus to the great radical slaveholders the willing physical material for the construction of armies and navies and for the prosecution of war.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slaveholders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
