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ith soft and thrilling raptures, and hold them, by my spells and charms, in agonies of sensual transport an ust. They wield the magic sceptre of universal fashion ar the imperial crown of popular and facinorous sway ir oracles speak from the Gods of Moloch and Sodom. e faint and imperfect hints may serve to touch the pe heart with profitable thoughts, and warn the baffle o mark, detect, and shun the poisonous ground, th ous roots, the upas trees, and fungi fruits, that bligh ast man's peace and hope on earth

ACCURSED ARISTOCRACY!

CHAPTER

SLAVERY.

Those for and against it violent-No slavery lawful-God n free-No human power can authorize it-Abstract law-T the United States, discussed-Are slaves property?—The lumbia-In the territories of the United States-In new St tive slaves, remedy.

"All men are created equal."-DECLARATION OF INDEP

THE advocates and adversaries of slavery recipro rations so degrading as to banish all decent auditors No man can hear their fierce personal onsets, and and vulgar language, without disgust.

One set is proscribed and accused as auctioneers flesh; and the other as mad and wilful conspirat and murder.

No allowances are made for the force of educatio cessity on one side, nor for excitement and fervor of Both claim for themselves the purest, and deny to the slightest, motives of sincerity.

The abolitionists charge the slaver with pagan while they, in turn, are charged with stirring up encouraging bloodshed and desolation.

Nothing can be so absurd as to hear a slave-driv ing or holding forth the pure examples of our Sav hear a fanatical and abusive amalgamationist makin appeals to his Maker.

The result is that but little true light is obtained sources, as is always the case with those who quar make a trade or an agony of what they practice.

If all they say of each other is true or false, it for the merits or demerits, the right or wrong, of hu age is a question by itself, which belongs to the and there, within the secret and solemn meditati soul, it must be decided.

pai vai opservations for the сапиш and serious consi

n of the sober-minded of all parties.

numan laws or penalties ever reformed a man; they may Out cannot convert; they harden, but do not tame; they o hatred, not love.

, bent on mischief, does not pause to debate anything ecess and fear.

e has no conscience, or if his bad propensities predomi er his good impulses, he takes his will, as cupidity and ead on.

e is truly upright in his views, unless weak and sorely d, he will not deliberately sin; and no intelligent man the control of a pure, free conscience, was ever engaged ery.

assertion is put flat and bold, without harsh language abstract position, an element in morals and mental phi y which is true or false; it cannot be dodged; its tes d in the character and nature of slavery.

ro or pagan slavery is no more lawful than white or Christ

very.

to this, it is a mere point of power; there are, perhaps by whites who have been slaves to others as blacks who een held by whites. It is an abstract question of right ot power; war and conquest, in no case, can give a righ more than vindicate wrongs, by indemnity for losses in ty, and to retaliate upon the enemy within the limits of ry and natural laws. Victors, perhaps, in vindication burn or confiscate property, or slay their enemies; thes tions are allowed, it is said, under the rule "ex necessi i."

s averred that they are within the range of things natural conqueror certainly would have no right to do an unna thing, even for retribution. He would have no right if it were for retaliation, to deliver his prisoners over to bals or sodomites, because this is unnatural; and, for the reason, he would have no right to put them in persona y, for this is against the law of nature.

martial or political bondage here, is not meant a restrain il liberty, which is partial and temporary, but persona

This is unnatural: everything is unnatural which i

pens

never denied.

Millions have brutalized their souls by fiendish human flesh; and millions have polluted and des holy image in God by sodomy. For this revolting of nature's laws, cities have been melted into burni just and indignant wrath.

The human family, still a race with fixed and si tions, however various in mind and complexion, was great father and proxy, Adam, placed in the gard other animal was made free; he alone was given and intimately, face to face, to understand his Cr talked to and communed with him, and explained and told him he was free, and that he was placed thing else; not over his own seed, but over everyth

Every child of Adam had this heritage, and was enough. Adam's dominions descended to his inheritance, to be divided off by occupancy, and possession.

This law has undergone no change; God alone tural right over man; the children of Adam never h right over each other; nor any other right, except redress for crimes, or the political rights surrendered compacts for defence and protection, and as unavoida thereto. Perhaps, also, they fall in jeopardy whe ties conflict.

But their personal rights are never lawfully civilized men; none but savages and robbers have tr the personal rights of a prisoner of war.

held sacred.

These ha

It is as unnatural to force a fellow-creature to su mind, labor, and liberty, to our cupidity and avari demand his person for unnatural lust.

Cupidity and avarice are in the same category w they are all equally unreasonable, unjust, beastly, unnatural.

Many wild animals, the dove and the deer, for timid and innocent: there are other wild animals wl

es of his fellow-man; and, as if maddened to frenzy by ish indulgence, he forges a chain, and hooks it to the ery child born from his slave, as if they are not created e womb, in the same image, and by the same Almighty hich made Adam from the ground.

decent, honest man, with frank spirit, and free soul y, by impulse, these plain and irrefragable axioms. e, then, is the authority, or excuse, for slavery? No and there never was a true, disinterested, unprejudiced at seriously pretended or claimed for it any sound ele right.

gins with the open audacity of the cut-throat pirate, whe nd sells his fellow-men; who disclaims and repudiates al and all laws; who sinks or swims, lives or dies, upon hi lust for gain.

, and thus, it all begins; there is no man, however de hat is not ashamed to avow this fiendish crime. It find or sanction in its origin, and the participators are jus tute of excuse as the first thieves from whom they obtai -lonious spoils.

in vain for them to whine out the sniffling and con ole sophism of the bandit's son, and that it was cast or y inheritance.

re is no moral or legal difference between a horse-thie kidnapper.

pose a slaveholder was innocently to buy a stolen horse he pretend to have any better title to him than the origina ad? Certainly not. And where is the distinction in prin between a stolen horse and a stolen man? None, excep that property may be lawfully held in a dumb beast as, by the laws of nature and of God, no property can b a a human being.

e speculations upon the mental and animal influences pro 1 by the necessities to which the human race have bee sed are curious and highly interesting.

e distinctions of color will be found to have but little t ith the arrogance and oppression of man towards his fellow : ignorance, brutality, and might have alternately swaye

ron centre of slavery and Oven nom amidst the lighten

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