e also, Arkansas and Indiana, Florida and
Wisconsin.

SLAVERY

IN THE LIGHT OF SOCIAL ETHICS.

BY

CHANCELLOR HARPER,

OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

SLAVERY

IN

THE LIGHT OF SOCIAL ETHICS.

INFLUENCE OF SLAVERY ON SOCIAL LIFE.

Necessity of Investigation--Vindicators of
Slavery--Slavery a means of
Civilization--Prejudices of
Abolitionism--Discussion of the Declaration of
Independence--Rights of
Society--Self-Preservation--The greatest good to
the greatest number--Ambiguity in moral
Investigation--Influence of Slavery on
Civilization--The Slavery of England's
Civilization--How Slavery retards the evils of
Civilization--Servitude Inevitable--Abuses of
Slavery and of Free Labor--Social ties, master and
slave--Intellectual advancement--Morals of
Slavery, and of Free Labor--Marriage relation and
licentiousness--Virtues of Slavery--Security from
Evils--Insecurity of Free Labor--Menial
occupations necessary--Utopianism--Slavery and the
servitude of Civilization contrasted--The African
an inferior variety of the human race--Elevating
influence of Slavery on the slave, on the master,
on statesmen--Duties of master--Elevation of
female character--Necessity of Slavery in tropical
climates--Examples from history--Southern
States--Insurrections impossible--Military
strength of Slavery--Advantageous consequences of
the increase of slaves--Destructive consequences
of Emancipation to our country, and to the
world--Kakistocracy--White
emigration--Amalgamation--Deplorable results of
Fanaticism.

THE institution of domestic slavery exists over far the greater portion
of the inhabited earth. Until within a very few centuries, it may be
said to have existed over the whole earth--at least in all those
portions of it which had made any advances toward civilization. We might
safely conclude then, that it is deeply founded in the nature of man and
the exigencies of human society. Yet, in the few countries in which it
has been abolished--claiming, perhaps justly, to be furthest advanced in
civilization and intelligence, but which have had the smallest
opportunity of observing its true character and effects--it is
denounc