Done to death by slanderous tongues
Was the Hero that here lies.
I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain,
Some busy and insinuating rogue,
Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,
Have not devis'd this slander.
Othello. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 130.
I am disgrac'd, impeach'd and baffled here,—
Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear.
Richard II. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 170.
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
- * * *
So thou be good, slander doth but approve
Thy worth the greater.
Sonnet LXX.
| note =
| topic = Slander
| page = 715
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>If I can do it
By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,
She shall not long continue love to him.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 46.
Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat
An honest name.
Thomson—Liberty. Pt. IV. L. 609.
SLAVERY
(See also Freedom)
Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliae fines penetraverint eodem momento liberi sunt.
Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul, that moment they are free.
Bodinus. Bk. I. Ch. V.
| seealso = (See also Campbell)
| topic =
| page = 715
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air of England is too pure to be breathed by a slave.
Lord Campbell—Lives of the Chief Justices. Vol. II. P. 418.
| seealso = (See also Bodinus, Cowper, Lofft, Mansfield)
| topic =
| page = 715
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>No more slave States and no more slave territory.
Salmon P. Chase—Resolutions Adopted at the Free-Soil National Convention. Aug. 9, 1848.
Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy.
David Christy—Title of Book, pub. 1855.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Hammond)
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
Winston Churchill in the British House of
Commons. Feb. 22, 1906.
Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam
servitutem cadit.
Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery.
Cicero—DeRepublica. I. 44.
Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus.
He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.
Cicero—Oratio Pro Rege Deiotaro. XI.
I would not have a slave to till my ground,
To carry me, to fan me while I sleep,
And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth
That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free;
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
I do not see how a barbarous community and
a civilized community can constitute a state. I
think we must get rid of slavery or we must get
rid of freedom.
Emerson—The Assault upon Mr. Sumner's
Speech. May 26, 1856.
Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.
| author = David Garrick
| work = Prologue to Ed. Moore's
Gamesters.
Resolved, That the compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant
with death and an agreement with hell; involving both parties in atrocious criminality, and
should be immediately annulled.
Wm. Lloyd Garrison—Adopted by the Mass.
Anti-Slavery Society. Fanueil Hall. Jan.
27, 1843.
The man who gives me employment, which I
must have or suffer, that man is my master, let
me call him what I will.
Henry George—Social Problems. Ch. V.
The very mudsills of society. * * * We
call them slaves. * * * But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term ;
but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it
is eternal.
James H. Hammond—Speech in the U. S.
Senate. March, 1858.
Cotton is King.
James H. Hammond. Phrase used in the
Senate, March, 1858. Gov. Manning of
South Carolina, Speech at Columbia, S. C.
(1858) (gee aIg0 CHHISTr )
Whatever day
Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. XVTI. L. 392
| note = Pope's trans.
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
Abraham Lincoln—Speech. June 17, 1858.
In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,—honorable alike in what we
give and what we preserve.
Abraham Lincoln—Annual Message to Congress. Dec. 1, 1862.
