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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.

We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.