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Mr. President,
it is
time to close this branch of the argument.
The Barbarism of Slavery has been now exposed,
Law
of Slavery, with
pretensions, founded
its five
first,
on the
in the asser-
tion of property in man, the denial of the conjugal relation, the infraction of the parental relation, the exclusion from knowledge
and the robbery of the
fruits
of another's labor,
the single object of compelling
men
to
all
work without
these having ivages,
while
Barbarism was still further attested by tracing the law in its origin to barbarous Africa and secondly, it has been exposed in a careful examination of the economical results of Slavery, its
illustrated
by
a contrast between the Free States and the Slave
States, sustained
by
official figures.
Slavery, I proceeded to consider
its
From
this
exposure of
influences on Slave-masters
whose true character stands confessed, first, in the Law of next, in the relations between Slavery which is their work them and their slaves, maintained by three inhuman instruments next, in their relations with each other and with societ}r and here we have seen them at home under the immedialso in the communities of which tbey ate influence of Slavery practicing violence, and pushing it everywhere, in are a part especially raging against all who question street-fight and duel the pretensions of Slavery entering even into the Free States
,
—
—
but not in lawless outbreaks only also in official- acts, as of Georgia and of South-Carolina, with regard to two Massachuand then ascending in audacity, entering the setts citizens
Halls of Congress, where they have raged, as at home, against all who set themselves against their assumptions, while the
whole gloomy array of unquestionable facts has been closed by portraying the melancholy unconsciousness which constitutes one of the distinctive features of
Such
is
my
this
Barbarism.
answer to the assumption of
fact in behalf of
Slavery by Senators on the other side. But before passing to that other assumption of constitutional law, which constitutes the second branch of this discussion, I add testimony to the influence of Slavery
on Slave-masters in other
too important to be neglected, and
may
countries,
which
is
properly find a place
here.
Among those who
have done most to press forward in Eussia by which the present Emperor
that sublime act of emancipation
