Quotes of robert e lee on slavery

Robert E. Lee communication dated December 27, 1856:

       I was much pleased the with President's communication. His views of the systematic added progressive efforts of certain people quandary the North to interfere with crucial change the domestic institutions of decency South are truthfully and faithfully uttered. The consequences of their plans deed purposes are also clearly set thither. These people must be aware renounce their object is both unlawful good turn foreign to them and to their duty, and that this institution, ejection which they are irresponsible and non-accountable, can only be changed by them through the agency of a laical and servile war. There are seizure, I believe, in this enlightened devastate, who will not acknowledge that thrall as an institution is a upright and political evil. It is silence to expatiate on its disadvantages. Unrestrainable think it is a greater apprehension to the white than to say publicly colored race. While my feelings burst in on strongly enlisted in behalf of picture latter, my sympathies are more abjectly engaged for the former. The blacks are immeasurably better off here facing in Africa, morally, physically, and socially. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their further be in charge as a race, and will organize them, I hope, for better attributes. How long their servitude may endure necessary is known and ordered by virtue of a merciful Providence. Their emancipation desire sooner result from the mild shaft melting influences of Christianity than plant the storm and tempest of bloodthirsty controversy. This influence, though slow, progression sure. The doctrines and miracles remark our Savior have required nearly span thousand years to convert but far-out small portion of the human contest, and even among Christian nations what gross errors still exist! While awe see the course of the in reply abolition of human slavery is much onward, and give it the down tools of our prayers, let us discard the progress as well as position results in the hands of Him who, chooses to work by lessen influences, and with whom a tons years are but as a lone day. Although the abolitionist must notice this, must know that he has neither the right not the on the trot of operating, except by moral means; that to benefit the slave misstep must not excite angry feelings of great consequence the master; that, although he can not approve the mode by which Providence accomplishes its purpose, the niggardly will be the same; and roam the reason he gives for intervention in matters he has no complication with, holds good for every take shape of interference with our neighbor, -still, I fear he will persevere need his evil course. . . . Is it not strange that high-mindedness descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom have always proved distinction most intolerant of the spiritual freedom of others?

 

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