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Payment for Repairing invariably required on delivery of the work. itS, All kinds of -PRODUCE \ICA as 4CCQUat of work- I'';3s. iwwwaggimmmlon= _. • . . .. . ... _ . .. ~ , .. :. _ CI , . 0i 8 -‘ ''''- ' ... : f ‘e , . A _,.: ,•.- _, 7 :,.. -. 2 : - :,:r --., • : .F,e .-- - ' - Ai l ' - .' ',: - :„... . 4 ' .-. i ::: . ..g.. 1) - ' 0- ', • i•T : - 4:•'- - 4-, ~ t. , .cr-J. .., *. - •;*:- • ‘_- 1 4 • ,„...*:'' : 7 . : ...,_ . 7 ,;.* - •--:,-' ': :' r , ': ~ ''..!•l-,.0:',..- , • . _ . . _. .. .! 1 4 ' t - r•ls \ --...--: -- I ~- ....,. _..,- ..,., ...: . „..,.,... _. ..,. , „ ~.. ......,..,..;• .......„: ..,„.....,.....„...,_;.._.,..„..-...,,. ~... ~.„ . ~...,..1, i ... 7 • C - - . - . ' -- - : ••-., ,;., ... • - :4,•:i.‘ ...4f ~- ,7 -• ' ...-..,-;L; i-,,- ~ '1 ''• -'''' ' --- .4 . (* ..'- • : ".,: "-' .i' ';•::-.7 . '. - - :-: .-..,' .-: •i-. 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Under the ice, under the snow, ; • .:7 Our lives are , bound in a.crrstal ring; By end by will the south winas"blow, I And the roses bloom an the banks of spriag.il 3tos.n and groan in thy fetters strong, ' firer of life.—ricer of lure. The nights grow short, the days growlong, Weaker and weaker the bonds of wrong, And the sun shines bright abort. , Under the ice our souls are hid; Under the ice our good deeds giows Men but credit the Wrong we .did, Never the motives that lay below, Moan and groan in thy prisbn cold, River of life—river of love; The Winter of life is growing old, The frost is leaving the melting mold, And the sun shines warm above. 1 .50 Under the ice we bide onr wrong.— Underneath the ice tha,lias chilled us tbre': Ob 1 that the friends that hare known us long Dare to doubt that we are good and true I, Moan and groan in thy prison - cold, .River of life•—river of love; Winter is growing rum and old, _ Roses stir in the melting mold; We shall be knoNsm above. • • . The Harbairist4 of Slavery. SPEECH OF HON. CHAS. SUMNER, - OF MASSACHUSETTS, — Delivered in the U. S. Senate, in Committee (If _ the Whole on the State of-Me Calcite,. June • • . (the6ss ' In.undertaking ;low to expose the BAIL BARISAL OF SLAVERY, the whole broad field is open before me. There is noth ing in its character, its" manifold _wrong, its wretched results, and :espeeiallY in its influence' on the - class - who - claint. to - be "-ennobled" by it, that will not fall natu rally under consideration. I know well the difficulty of this .dis cussion involved in the humiliating truth with which I begin. 'Senators on former occasions, revealing their seusibility,have even protested against. any 'comparison between what rem called the " two civ ilizations"—meanitm the two social sys tems . produced respectively by Freedom and by-Slavery. The sensibility and the protest are not unnatural, though mistak en. " Twe civilizations I " Sir. in this nineteenth century of Christian light, there can be but one Civilization, and this is where Freedom prevails. Between, Slavery and Civilization there is an es r sential incompatibility. If you are for the one, you cannot be for the other ; and I just in proportion to the embrace of Slave ry is the divorce from Civilization. That Slave-masters should be disturbed when this is exposed, might be expected. Thit the assumptions now so boastfully made, while they may not prevent the sensibil ity; yet.surely exclude all ground of pro test when these assumptions are exposed. Nor is this the only difficulty.. Slave ry is a bloody Touch.ine-not, and every where in sight now bloonis the bloody flower. It is oft the way side as we ap proach the national capital; it is on the marble steps which we mount; it flaunts cut this floor. I stand now in the house of its friends. About me, while I speak, are its most sensitive guardians, who have shown in the past bow. mach they are ready either to do or not to do whore Slavery is in question. Menaces to deter me have not been spired, But I should ill deserve.this high post of duty here, with • which I hive been -honored by a generous and enlightened people, if I could hesitate. Idolatry has often been exposed in the presence of idolaters, and hypocrisy hasleen chastised in the pres ence of Scribes and Pharisees. Such ex amples may giveeiicouragement to a Sen ator who unctertakes in this presence to expose Slavery; nor can any language, directly responsive to they assumptionS now made for this Barbarism, be open to question. • Slavery can only be painted in the sternest colors; but I cannot forget that nature's sternest Fainter has been called the best. E. A.. JONES. THE 8411.33A111.3M Or SLIVERY ap. Oars first in the character 0,/ Simard', and seconft in the character of. Slave masters. Undqr, the first head we shall naturally - consider (1) the Law of Slavery and-its Origin, and (2) - the practical re sults of Slavery as shown in a coLparison between the Free States and . the Slave States, Under the second head we shalt naturally consider (1) Slave.masters as shown - in the Law of Slavery) , (2) Slave masters in their relations with slaves, here glaneing at their three brutal instruments; and (3) . Slave-masters in their relations with each other, with society,: and with Pqtrea:t? . titt Pf 4 1 1IP:g03TIPeNeD; - 00 file Vsselqiilktiolt of Johliti3i LieNtitlVe aqo YLehis• ✓ r ' r. Zt; Edititat. Oa 1860 'OOIIDERSIiiORT, :POTTER COUNTY, TA; 1 1#111181:10, 28, 1860. Government.; lind (4) Zinvia•masters :in their unconseiotisnesA.',' , - TIM wh3; will . then ,be:prepared the considepuon of the assumption of.consti.„ tutional law. . - I. In presepting the CUARACTEtt oa SLAVEItYi there is' little fUriiie:to do, es cent trpallow Slavery to paititiitielf. When this 43 done; the picture need no et-. , placatory o.) I begiii illith the ti to of Mt v . Slave ancrhein this Barba'ristu partitsleself in its own "Chnstitiiiefinitio*M• It'is ' simply this , ,`: Man, created in lite image of God, is divested:of his -human -character, and declared to be a "chattel" —that is, a beast, a thing or article .of property. = That this - statement may not seem to be:put - forward without, precise authority, I quote the statutes of three different States, beginning with South Carolina, whose-voice for Slavery always has.an unerring distinctiveness. Here is thedefinition supplied by this State: • " Slaves shall be deemed, held, taken, re pnted, and adjudged in law, to be chattel per sonal in the hands of their owners and pos sessors and their executors, administrators, and assigns, to all letehts, constructions, nud purp,oses whatsoever."—Brev. Dig., 229. And hero is,the definition supplied by the Civil Code of Louisiana.' "'A slave is one who .is in 'the poiret of a master to whom he belongs: The master may sett him, dispose of his person, his industry,, and his labor. He can• do. nothing, yossess nothing, nor acquire anything, but what must belong to his master."-=--Civil Code, eitt. 35., In similar spirit, the law of Maryland thus directly 'defines a'slavens an article: "Id ease tlia - perscinal property of a Ward shall Consist of-specific articles, such as slaves, working beasts, animals of any% kind, the cour,t i lf it deem it advantageous for the ward, may at any, tirne..pass an order for the sale thereof."—Statutes of Maryland. idiot to occupy time unnecessarily, I preSent a summary of the pretended law defining Slavery in all the Slave States / as made by a 'careful writer, Judge' Stroud, in a work of jurisdinial as well as philan thropic merit : ":The cardinal prinCiple of Slavery—that the stare is not: to be ranked among sentient beings i but among things—id an article of property—a cliatCol peteonal—obtains as un denrbted law.in all of these = [Slave] 'StateS2! .—Strourl's Law Of Slavery, p. SS. , , Out of this definition; as from solita ry germ; which-in its pettiness- Might be crushed by the hand, towers otir Upas Tree and allits gigantic poison; Study it, and you will comprehend the whole monstrous growth. - • Sir, look, at its plain import, and see the relation which itestablishes. The slave is held' simply 'for the use of his master, to whose behests, his - life, liberty, and happiness, - ,are devoted, and by whom lie may be bartered, leased, mortgaged, bequeathed, invoiced; shipped as cargo; stored as goods, sold on execution, knocks ed elf at public auction, and even staked at the gaming table, on the hazard of a card or a die; all according to law. Nor is there anything, within the limit of life inflicted on a beast Which may not be in flicted on the slave. He may unmarked like a hog, bratided like a mole, yoked like an ox, hobbled like a. horse; driven likeran ass, sheared like a sheep, maimed like a car, aad constantly -bestedlike - a brute ; all according to law. And should life itself be taken, what is the .remedy ? Tilt Law of Slavery, imitating that rrile of evidence which, in barbarous days and barbarous, countries, prevented a Chris tian from testifying against a Mabotnedan, openly pronounces the incompetency of the whole African race--whetherbond or free—to testify in any case against a ividte man, and, thus having already sur rendered the. slave to all possible outrage, crowns its tyranny, by excluding the very testimony through which the bloody cru elty of the Slave-master might' be et posed. . Thus in its Law , does Slavery • paint itself; but it is only when we look at,de tails, and detect its essential elcuients---• five in number—all inspired by a single motive, that its character becomes cow -1 uletelv manifest. • Forams - 4of course, in these elements, is-the impossible pretension, where Bari barism is lost in impiety, by which- man claims property in man. Against Buell arrogance the argument - is brief. Ac. aordiug to the law of - nature written by the same hand that placed - the planets in their, orbits, and like them, constituting a part of the eternal system of the Uni verse, every human being has a Complete title to himself direct from the Alt - nights. Naked he is horn but this birthright. is inseparable. from the human form. A man may, be poor - in this. world's goods; but he owns himself. No war or robbery, aueient, or recent ; no capture; no middle passage; no change of clime ; no purchase menu; no transmission from hand to hand,.no matter how many times, and no matter atiwitakpriee, can defeat this in defeasible God-given franchise. And a Divine. mandate, strong as that w.hiah guards Life, guards Liberty also. -Even at the very morning of Creation, when God said, let there lie Light--earlier than the malediction against murder - -lie set eff - an everlasting erenee between • than ..-~Jy v: . . and a - chajlel,,,giving,, plan ; donlinioa over tiie - fiah tb,e seat and over the. foirl. .Of the eir;'and over .every'liVing r thing that tnoiath upon the4elth - 1 • right wo hold • BtHis donation.; ; lint man over*n Es made wit lOrd, Bach tide to liiipsilf •Ittaarvitig, human lett !rem human' fro.. Slaveryetylinnically; -assumes :a ;potter prbicli Reaven:Aenied,l while, under.;ltd barharocia n'ecromaney;berrowed frem the Source• of Evil,a man is 'changed into a eliattel"—a„pergon is withered into .a thing Sat, sir , in-. Your Madness, that 'yeti' own the min, the :dais; the!imoon ; but do not say that you own a men, endowed '7with soul that ,shall live iumertal, when sun and moon and stars have passed away. , Secondly: Slavery paints itself again is its 'complete abrogation of marriage, recognized as it.pacranient by the church, and recognized as a : contract wherever civilization prevails. i Under the slaw of Slavery, no such 'sacrament is respected, and no such contract clan exist. The ties that May • be formed between slaves are all subject to the selfiah lust of the mas ter, whese license knotra no elleck.l Nat ural affections which have come together are rudely torn asunder'; -nor is this all. Stripped of every defence, the chaAtity of a whole race is exposed to violeneS, while the result is recorded_ n the tell-tale faces of children, glowing with their. Master's blood, but doomed for their mother's skin to Slavery, through alldescendiug gene , rations. -The'&eater , from MisSissippi [Mr, Brown] is galled by the"comparison between Slavery and Polygamy, and, winces. T r hail this, 'sensibility as the sign of 'little. Let him reflect; and he will confess, that, there are many disgust ing elements in Stalely,'which me not present. in Polyganly;; 7hile the, single disgusting element oft, Polygamy is more than present in Slavery. By thejliconse of Polygamy, one roan may have many wives, all bound to him by the inatPiage tie; and in other respects protected -by law, 'By the license of Slavery, a whole race . is delivered' over; ta, prostitution, and concubinage, without .the protection of any law.' Sir, is not Slavery barbarous ? • Thirdly. Slavery Paints itself again in ita.eodtiila.te crLroyution of .Elie rh, rgnYt4. relation, 'tsrtiiclt t4ocl,in his benevoleneti hai provided for the nurture and' educa tion of the human family, and which con stitutes an essential part of Civilization itself. Arid yet, by the law of Slavery --happily beginning to be modified in some places—this relation is set at naught, and in its place is substittited the arbitrary control of tlic master,, at whose mere command little•children, such as the Savior called unto him, though clasp.' ed by a mother's arms, may be stept un-: der' the hammer of the, auctioneer Ido not dwell on this exhibition. Sir, is not Slavery barbarous.? Fourthly. Slavery paints itself again in closing the gates ry knowledge, Which are also the shining gates of civilization. Under its plain, unequivocal law, the bondman may, at the unrestrained' will of his master, be shut out from rali I - in structions, while in many places, acredi ble to relate! the law itself, by cumula tive provisions, positively forbids that.tie shall be taught to read, for his soul would then expand in larger air, while he saw the glory of the North - Star, and also the helping truth, that God, who made iron, never made a slave; fer be would then become familiar , with the Scriptures, with the Dixalogua still sneaking in the thun ders of Sinai; with that ancient teat, "He that stealeth a Imaii and iselleth him, or if be be found' in his hands, he' shall surely be put to 'death ;" with that other text, " Masters give unto year ser vants that which is just and equall;" with that great story of redemption, when the Lord raised the slave-born Moses' to de liver his, choseu - people. from the house of bondage ; and with. that sublimer story, where the Savior died it cruel deaih, that all men, without distinction of race, might be saved---leaving to Mankind commandments, which, even,without his example, wake Slavery imposs i lble.— Thus, in order to fa. p.n your mane, esup on the stave, you fasten other manaeles up on his soul. Sir, isnot Slavery b. rbarous.? F( .. itlify. Slavery paints itself again in the appropriation of till the tali of its victims-, excluding thetti from that prop erty in their own earnings, which the !awl of nature allows, and civilization assures..! The painful injustice bf this pretonsion is lost in its, meanness.; Itisrubbery'and/ petty larceny under the =garb of And even its meanness is lost in the ab surdity of its associate A pretensiou, that the 'African, thus despoiled of all earnings, is saved from poverty, and thq . for his own good he must work for, his master, and not for himself. Alas by such a fallacy, is a whole race pauperized! And yet this transaction is not without, illustrative example. tA" solemn poet, whose versa has found; wide favor; pic tures a creature who, = .Crith ono littad;pnt - I- A penny in the urn of i poverty. And with the other:took a shillitto; out. “Coo- e Tt.sz , L," .3cck 17/1: 63: • • MM=l And a - celebrared traveler through Rim• sia, more than ii iteneration ap,.det..eribes a-kindred spirit;avho,'While oti LIS knees before an altar of die Greek : Churelt,,de• voutly told •his beads' With one hand, and with the 'other Ailiberately...pioked pocket; of a ,felloir sinner by hiti'side:-!", Not admiring' tkese . instances; cannot cease to deplore a system ;Which heS mitbuj Of 'both ) 104, 'Wider -itti affectation of Charity, it pordidly-takes fkom: the ilav4d all the fruit's , hitief sweat; audtlius: makes from him the maittzipring to eter.; tion, Ten übt':--*averY' bar.'d baronsir Suchis Slatery in its five special-de-I' men ts lof . Barbariism; 'is •reaegnized by{ l laW; first; assumbr, that man: Can , liolcil' property in man ;- -secondly; abrogating the relation of husband and Wife ;.thirdly, a6ogating the • parefital tie; 4fourthly,i closing the - gates of knowledge ; and fiftli.i/ ly, appropriating the . unpaid labor of another. Take away . these -clenientsi sometimes called " abuses," and, Slavery 'will cease to exist, for it is. these very " abuSes . " which constitute Slavery.—i Take away any one of 'them, and the ab olition of Slavery begins. And when present Slavery for jagment, I mean no alightlevil,* With regard to Which there . may'-be a reasonable difference of opinion; but I ;mean this five-fold embodiment of " ohmic "--'--this ghastly quincunx of liarl barism- , -each particular ,of which, if con i Blared separately, must be denounced at once with all the ardor of alt honest'Souli while the. whole 'five-fold combination' must awake a five-fold : denunciation. ..1 But this five-fold-combination becomes still Moro hateful 'when its single motite is considered. . The Seuator froin litisiisii sippi [Mr. tiavisl says that it ' is ", but A form Of Civil government" fur Mote win'? 1 tire not fit to govern _themselves." The iileurit'or is mistaken. It, is an outrage whoi4 fife differentpretension.s ell conedr in on single object', looking only to the profit of the Master; and constituting its ever present motive pewer, which ie alint ply tii' compel the labor of fellow mci l ioithont wages! , If te- - offence of Slavery were leis ex T ta . k / ) if it were confined to Sou.° tuir tot region ; if ithad less of grandeur in its proportions ;:if its 'victims were count l, ed byi tens and hundreds, itititeadof,intli: lione,i . the five headed enormity would find [ littlontrulgence t . All would rise ag,ainsi I [it, while religion and civilization would lavish theirehoicest efiorts in the general ivarfaie. Bat what is wrong when done to one man cannot be right when demi to tuMiy. -If it is Wrong thus to degradiii a single soul,-if it is wrong thits to de; gradeyou, Mr. Presidentit cannot be right to 'degrade a whole race And ye this is denied by the barbarous logic of Slavety. which, taking advantage of its! own wrong, claims immunity because RS Usurpation has assumed a front of auiln.l city that cannot be safely-attacked. Umi happily, there is Barbarism elsewhere in the world; bit American Slavery, as del fined by existinglaw, Stands forth as the neatest organized Barbarism on which! the' sun nom shines. ..It is without asio.l, i gle peer. Its author, . after making. it 1 , .broke the die. ' . • . If curiokity carries us to the, - origin of this I law‘-and .here I approach a tcpie often] considered in this Chamber—we shall bonfoss agaiti its' Barbarism. It 1.51 not ; derived from tßu ‘ commett Taw, that fountain of Liberty l - fez' this liiivOiliile unhappily recognising:a system of servq tude,lknown as villeinage, segued to the' bendinch privileges unknown to the Anierican stave l 'protected in his person against mayhem ; protected his wifo against rape; gave to his marriage equal i validity With the marriage of his master,. , land sarrounded his offspring with geaer-; ous presumptions bf freedom, unlike that! ruie cif yours .by which the servitude of the mother is - necesgarily stamped .iipon‘ the child. 'lt is, not derived froth 'the Ron+ law, that fountain of tyranny„ for two reasons—first, hew-usti this law in its" better - days, when ifs early , rigors were spentl—like the common laW itselfse. , cured to the headman privileges unknown to the American slave—in certain .oases of erUelty rescued him frotn'his master-- preveted the separation Ail parents and children, else of brothers and sister— and. eon protected him iv the - marriage relatien ; and, secondly, becanse the Thir teen solonies were not deriied . frorn any of these emintires>which recognized the Roman law, wl-.ile this law even before the discovery of this continent had lest all living efficacy. '- It is not derived trim the Matioinecian law; for tinder the:mild injunction "of tlie,lioran, a benignant set... vitMle unlike' years; has prevailed__ ivliere the lash, is , not allowed to lacerate+ - •.r.. TV, ek of aTeinale; where'no' knife or iiuf , iron Is e.mplosed Upon any hu. ' • oing to mark Inuf as the property nian where the waster is . '13 . 1y. en - joined liste l e, tththe:de of his :.lace for einantipatiimi the.blood 'of the.thasteri.thingling Li 's, bond wothan, takts froth her the rerable eliaraeier of a chattie, and /s cothylete freedom upon their off- .11MMMMS e •• 4 - y0UB: •OEN,TS'.• "• -- 'ITER.Dig,--$1.25 PEI!! ANNUM; - . , ... spring.- It is not derived froM,tha Spite ish law 1 for this law ' contains' . hinniiii , - dements; unitnoWn to:your system,:,.hori rOWed i _ perbapij from' 'the .., Idationmildte . Moors who so long" iiectiged Spate; and I besides, our Thirteen 'Colonies • had tr., [ umbilical:conetictian'SWlthSysie t „, , Nopts it derived fromEng,liiksuitutesot Amer.,' iciefo(atites, ihrwelitite the riteillit,eali4, repeated' averment of :the :Senate.from, " V. irgioia [Mr: Alas")-timltalantif ' other Seem - ora l that, in not u single litiitoft the Vela can any .seeh atatutfaciutik.i i iziog 'Slaveri_helotia Prom *4* these &tee lt,coxiii. - ,' , ',..,';' , 1.` ~.' '' ...'; - -;i -- 'lltii.i' , No; si4.not froineny. land - of eirlhi_ 0*,4:: : tion is this Barliariam derived.7,l; tit e ll Africa; ancient nurse .of inottsterti l , limn Guinea,. Dahoiney- and'. Ooligti, There is, its origin and fountain. '. This benighted , region, we are told by Chief Jiistiee Maria]; in a mendable judge went ( The Antelope:4lo .Wlieztt.9B it. t 66), still asserts a right, discarded by . Christe.... endem, to enslate captives taken in war j. and this African Barbarism is the begin. 7 sing_ of American Slavery. ' ~And..tbe ' Supreme COurt of Georgia,'d Slave State. : has'not shrunk from this conclusion. "lii. tensed- to hold slave pioperty," says the- ~ Court, ",the Georgia planter held the, slave as a chattle, either directly fro& : the slave-trader, or from these Who bild , under him, and lie from the• slave-captor in Africa. The property 'in the slave Itt the planter, became' thus, - the Eiroperti . of the original captor." Weal v. liarintif, 5, 9 Georgia Repriti f page 565.1 It . is natural that a right, thus derived in , defiance of Christendom, should fiti - egire , cised without any mitigating . infinenee '.: from' Christianity; that, the maateet au.e' thority over the.person of his shire-over : his conjugal relatiotaL , tici,his tareetid relations—over the employment .of, :MS ; i time--over all his seilttisitions & ehould be redonniz`ed, while no generous, presurape . lion inclines " to 'Freedom, and the Womb'.: " of the bond woman . cue ae deliVr only , , slave. . - ' ' ; From its home in Afrietto *II* it- la sustained by inimemothil usage, this Bate harisin, thus derived, and thus developed, traversed the ocean to , American soil. .'li, entered'. on board' ttiat, fatal idav,e - ship,,,, !!'lNill itl.tbe-i-gglikset ..and :ragged = with, _ email dak,"'iviiiiiti in' , 1620 r landed : cruel cargo at I .llthestetiM, in Virginia, - and it has holdly taken its Place in every succeeding slave ship from . that early day 4111 now---lielping to peek the human: freight, regardless of human agony; girl' viving the.torment of the middle_ passage}"_ surviving Its cotintleia victims. plunged beneath the waves; and it lies left the • slave-ship only to travel inseparahle Eton! , the slave in his various 'doom, s o nctiouto4 , tip its barbarous 'code, - every outrage, . 1 whether of mayhem or. robbery, of lash of lust,:and fastening itself Upon his Offspring : to the, remotest generation. - Thus are the - barbareei'prerogatives• of , barbarous AM., eau chiefs perpetuated American' Slave., . 7 masters, while the Senator from• Virginia . [Mr. Mason,] 'perhaps' unconscious . 01 f r 1 their origin—perhaps desirous' to secure for there the appearance of a less barbSiNi - - ' ous pedigree--tricka them" out With ,a: - phrase of the Bei:luau lair discarded bt, the common law. OartitA sequitur ;-vdni • treat, which simply renders into. ancient: Latin an 'existing rule of:African Barber. ism,. recognized as sir (misting .01s - 'of''' American Slavery. ~, ' ' ' _—. , Suck is the plain jurldisat,origiutifthit -- ' American slave code, . which; is_ no* . vaunted as a badge of Civilization. '-• Bali all lani whatever may be its juridical-0e .. igin, whether 'English or - IdUhentilditui. , Roman or African, may be tinged, to othe er and ampler infinencie itinattere, Bernell,: _ dines of Right, and , sometimes "of Wrongs. Surelt`the kir which 'bloated - Ate sfaves. trade 7 its piracy ptinishableWiiii death , bail a different inspiration from • that ,other. law, which secured immunity' for `the , .. slave•trade threnghout an immense .iorti l . tory, and invested its supPortera *-itlir litical power. ,As there le a hlghei: awl ~ above, so there is a lower law, Ifeloii3idid ' each is felt inhuman affairs. . - _ _ MIEN ' Thus far, We, havj3 seen Oaife!yindy rt. ifs pretended lair 'and' in; the origin of that laW. And hole E might step, with. out proceeding in this argoutent fur, art the letter of the 'law alone glittery mist/ be condemned. But the tree is kilo** ' ibyits - fraits, - nod these t nov Aubit; and this britt; , e UM to the' L eicqui 'stage Of the arganient. I O.)" Id considering- tie praelkal ta• - •f.. loutts bi 'Slaperi, the niaterials ate so t i irioas and diversified, that ni.tOliief,eiie to_ ah r rid,S;6*and reject ; and tieret liait alit of * Slavery. -- The'Statee where this Ile rta:n=4* ter • exists exeel . the Frees Statue al adiantages. Their territory #e merit xtensive,strelehittitiver,Sl,34l:iiettuilo,,,, iniles, while:, the .Ifree 'Stites itsehrditiii., elli)t'.6l:24:§Atit** Anita. • ' kierels ilifferenee.ofwt**4 t: 38 1P. 0 'wiles in f,P.'o o ffie**4 iO - :, Showing that Preedem kt* "41,isereat eentrovers' Attu a quarter less than Oat. 'of Sk very,.- rag =I ERM IMEM 10 BD MMM ME 11211 MEM WEE DEEM
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