ANTI- ABOLITION DEFINITION<\/p>\n
Southern Literary Messenger\u00a0Richmond, Virginia, and \u201cdevoted to Literature, Science and Art\u201d, \u00a0defines an Abolitionist thus:<\/p>\n
\u201c An Abolitionist is a man who does not love slavery for its own sake, as a divine institution;\u00a0who does not worship Ds the corner-stone of civil liberty; who does not adore it as the only\u00a0possible social condition on which a permanent republican government can be erected; and\u00a0who does not, in his inmost soul, desire to see it extended and perpetuated over the whole\u00a0earth,\u00a0as a means of human reformation second in dignity, importance and sacredness alone\u00a0to the Christian religion.\u00a0 He who does not love African slavery with this love is an Abolitionist.\u201d<\/p>\n
(Liberator,<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0April 5, 1861, pg 3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ANTI- ABOLITION DEFINITION Southern Literary Messenger\u00a0Richmond, Virginia, and \u201cdevoted to Literature, Science and Art\u201d, \u00a0defines an Abolitionist thus: \u201c An Abolitionist is a man who does not love slavery for its own sake, as a divine institution;\u00a0who does not worship Ds the corner-stone of civil liberty; who does not adore it as the only\u00a0possible social … Continue reading Anti-Abolition Definition of Abolitionist<\/span>