In 1846, James Macbeth argued that slavery was poisoning the United States, the land of self-professed liberty, and it's such a powerful statement I had to replicate it here.
“...if the
grand experiment of the American republic fails – and through the fierce
passions which slavery engenders, it is provoking danger every hour from within
and from without – then woe to the cause of liberty over the earth. To save
that republic, its slavery must be abolished, and if it be not extricated by
the energetic action of its churches – at present so shamefully lethargic – it
will not be extricated peacefully and the last lingering tints of the bow of
hope on that western sky may soon disappear in a revolutionary storm – in a
shower of blood…”
That "shower of blood" would become the Civil War.
(|Macbeth, James, “No Fellowship with
slaveholders: a calm review of the debate on slavery in the Free Assembly of
1846, addressed respectfully to the Assembly of 1847, and to the members and
kirk sessions of the Free Church”, Glasgow, 1846, pp.3-37.)
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