Come-Outerism: The Duty of Secession From a Corrupt Church. E-book. Formato PDF William Goodell   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

James G. Birney has proved that the American Church is the Bulwark of American Slavery, and Stephen S. Foster, that the American church and clergy are a Brotherhood of Thieves. Having thus shown the American church to be corrupt, we present our friends with another link in the chain of argument, from the hand'of William Goodell of Utica, being his well-known Essay on the Duty of Secession from a Cor rupt Church. The American anti-slavery Society is frequently charged with being opposed to all church organizations. The charge has been again and again both denied and refuted. Those who care to know our vlews m regard to the churches of the coun try and the course we urge our members to adopt, will find them clearly defined in the following pages. Though we differ on other points, on this Mr. Goodell and ourselves are entirely agreed.

The American Slave Code, in Theory and Practice, Its Distinctive Features Shown by Its Statutes, Judicial Decisions Illustrative Facts. E-book. Formato PDF William Goodell   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

It is Often maintained that the legal. Relation of master and slave is not a criminal one, and that there is no sin or moral wrong in the mere fact of sustaining that rela tion. On the other hand, it is held that the relation is wrong in itself, and cannot be innocently sustained. Such a question cannot, intelligently, be settled without a correct understanding Of that legal relation, and of the particulars in which it consists. And it is only by the Slave Code Of the country that the legal relation can be ascertained. By this, and by this only, is it to be defined. The legal relation of master and slave is what the Slave Code declares it to be. And it is nothing else.