Discourse Before the Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennsylvania: Delivered October 24, 1834, in St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Discourse Before the Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennsylvania: Delivered October 24, 1834, in St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia

Its effects upon the master who lives under it, and upon the country which tolerates it, are only less baleful and ruinous. Look for a moment at the condition of our southern country, where, as well in its moral as its physical aspects, can be seen the sweeping desolation of its blight. The vice of indo lence, and those other vices which march in the train of inac tion, are but too perceptible on every hand. With all the advantages of a favourable position for commerce, a genial climate and luxuriant soil, we find deserted wharves, grass grown streets, and exhausted fallows. Instead of the hardy race which should fix upon solid ground the deep foundations of our republican edifice, we find them luxurious and effemi nate, unequal to those vigorous exertions which a new system in a new country requiresfi'6 Those who cannot maintain the style of gentlemen, seek subsistence in other states where labour is honourable and its recompense less contingent. Thus sapped of its strength, its enterprising spirits banished by an inexorable necessity - its magnificent fields neglected and uncultivated - its inhabitants emasculate by indulgence.

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