If the devil had written upon the subject of slavery, which side would he have taken? Let every minister answer. If you knew the devil had written a … - Robert Green Ingersoll

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If the devil had written upon the subject of slavery, which side would he have taken? Let every minister answer. If you knew the devil had written a work on human slavery, in your judgment, would he uphold slavery, or denounce it? Would you regard it as any evidence that he ever wrote it, if it upheld slavery? And yet, here you have a work upholding slavery, and you say that it was written by an infinitely good God!