Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Capitolo 26

been born a wretch to serve the vanity of my Uncle;  also, and it was me to
scold him/it, he would laugh to what he calls our folly our sickly,
sensibility;  he would tell me some pleasures of the southern life,
southern scenery, southern southern cavalry refinement;--yes, him
it would tell me as is best to accredit the whole one to southern
liberality of custom:--so continuous! There is a principle to be
served later everything:  he says us we are not expeditious in the world to
excommune us from his/her pleasures. This can be the good logic, for
I possess me I don't believe with those that want the world screwed above in
a religious vice;  but pleasure is separated in so very different
quality, one don't know really which goes well the best time-a-day.
They say philosophers we should avoid to make pleasure of that that is able
gives the pain to others;  but philosophers say this way a lot of things, and it give
then a lot of suggestion about that we never think following. Uncle has a
standard of his really. However, I desire southern society to be
warier, reputing the morality in his/her correct light. His/her everybody
doubtful! doubtful! doubtful! There is Pemberton Praiseworthy More old man;
he preaches, sermons, sermons!--its preaching is to live, not to
dies from. I am sorry for those poor negroeses that, despite them
impenetrable heads, death is annoyed to every Sunday with that
same sermon. Such preaching, such extended effort this way
apparatus to manufacture him/it men as without soul as a good. I don't do
wonders the world it has to be so very bad, when the wickedness
some church of slavery is become so sublime. And there is Uncle,
too,--him is only stricken in this way;  pious dissertations that feel
to lift that that in his/her soul he knew how to be the heaviest
wickedness that the world has groaned under, he has come to look on
religion as if it were a commodity too much old for him. He sees the
minister of the Word of God a mere car of assignment, paid to do a certain
amount to talk to negroes, endeavouring to thrill them simple
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