Excerpt from A Discourse on the Subject of American Slavery: Delivered in the First Congregational Meeting House, in Mendon, Mass, July 4, 1837 What then shall we say to these things? What shall we think, when we reflect that persons, or about one sixth part of the whole population of this Union, are hem med in and crushed down by such a system of studied, legal despotism as this? What can we say, when we reflect that the murky cloud lowers over one half the States of this great and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.