14 and over the fowl of the that moveth upon the earth :
and over every living thing
air,
sea,
that rteht
we hold
By His donation but man over men He made not lord, such title to Himself
Reserring,
human
left
from human
free.
Slavery tyrannically assumes a power which Heaven denied its barbarous necromancy, borrowed from the
while under
Source»of Evil, a
man
is
changed into a chattel, a person is is shrunk into merchandise. Say,
withered into a thing, a soul
sir, in your madness, that you own the sun, the stars, the moon ; but do not say that you own a man, endowed with a soul that shall live immortal, when sun and moon and stars have passed
away. Secondly. Slavery paints itself again in its complete abroga-
of marriage, recognized as a sacrament by the church, and recognized as a contract wherever civilization prevails. Under the law of Slavery, no such sacrament is respected, and no such tion
contract can exist.
The
ties that
may be formed between slaves
more selfish lust of the whose license knows no cheek. Natural affections^ which have come together, are rudely torn asunder nor is this Stripped of every defence, the chastity of a whole race is all. are
all.
subject to the selfish interests or
master,
exposed to violence, while the result is recorded in the telltale faces of children, glowing with their master's blood, but doomed for their mother's skin to Slavery, through all descending The Senator from Mississippi [Mr. Brown] is generations. galled by the comparison between Slavery and Polygamy, and winces. I hail this sensibility as the sign of virtue. Let him
and he will confess that there are many disgusting elements in Slavery, which are not present in Polygamy, while
reflect,
the single disgusting element of sent in Slavery.
By
Polygamy
is
more than pre-
the license of Polygamy, one
man may
bound to him by the marriage-tie, and in other respects protected by law. By the license of Slavery, a "whole race is delivered over to prostitution and concubinage, without the protection of any law. Sir, is not Slavery barhave many wives,
all
barous ? Thirdly. Slavery paints itself again in its complete abrogation
of the parental relation, which
God
in his benevolence has pro-
