out the necessary process, and that under the plea of necessity. But, sir, this is impossible; and can man be in the midst of freemen and not know what freedom is ? Can he feel that he has the power to assert his liberty, and will he not do it? Yes, sir, with the certainty of time's current he will do it, whenever he has the power. The data are before us all, and every man can work out the process for himself. Sir, a death struggle must come between the two classes, in which one or the other will be extinguished forever. Who can contemplate such a catastrophe, as even possible, and be indifferent?"

15. Partaker of his evil deeds.

Let those members and ministers in the Christian church, who do not set their faces against the sin of slave-holding in all who practice it, think on these words.

16. Slaves and souls of men.

The ouάrov, bodies and souls of men; these are here set down as articles of traffic, with beasts, sheep, and horses! And it should be noted also, that the trade here spoken of, in the souls and bodies of men was carried on by an anti-christian church.

"The Lord who judgeth her will effuse his wrath upon Babylon, because she makes merchandise of slaves, the souls and bodies of men. To number the persons of men with beasts, sheep, and horses, as the stock of a farm, or with bales of goods, as the cargo of a ship, is a most detestable and antichristian practice."- [Scott.]

But from these words we learn that the time is coming when no man shall buy the souls and bodies of men any more at all! And, consequently, when the souls and bodies of men are neither bought nor sold any more, then all slaveholding must cease, and slavery become extinct throughout this nation and throughout the whole world! Yes, as sure as

we may depend upon the veracity of the infinite God, just so certainly we shall not be disappointed in expecting the utter extinction of this infernal system from the face of the globe. And then will come the world's jubilee! O the delightful anticipations of that auspicious day! When man shall enslave his fellow-man " no more at all!" when there shall be "no more soul-drivers, nor "brokers in the trade of blood.” When the clanking of chains upon human limbs shall be heard 66 no more at all." When the bloody thumb-screws and the lacerating whip shall torture "no more at all." Then shall the cruel man-stealer no more part those asunder whom God joins together; nor shall the parent's joy be damped and chilled any more by the sight of a Christian white man!

Merciful God! In the greatness of thy compassion, hasten, O hasten, the arrival of that blessed hour!

CHAPTER XIII.

THE TESTIMONY OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD AGAINST SLAVERY.

THE following testimonies are from some of the wisest and best of men that have ever lived; men of different notions, and of different political and religious creeds. From these we may see that the piety and wisdom of the world agrees perfectly with

the word of God, in condemning slavery as one of the greatest outrages upon the rights, the souls, and bodies of men, which it is possible for humanity to suffer.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created free and equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [Declaration of American Independence, 1776.]

No longer shall the United States of America be famed for liberty. Oppression pervades their bowels; and while they exhibit a fair exterior to other parts of the world, they are nothing more than painted sepulchres, containing within them rottenness and corruption. [Othello, Baltimore Adver tiser, 1788.]

Everything that is miserable, horrible, and odious, is comprised in this abominable [slave] system. The slavery practiced in America is not only abominably unjust, inconsistent, and ridiculous, but it is a dis grace to human nature. There never yet was an instance, in which all the rights of human nature were more flagrantly violated than in the case of American slavery. Perfect liberty and equality with the whites is this day the inalienable right of

every negro in America. [Amynto, New-York, 1796.]

Let who will startle or laugh, I steadfastly maintain that we must bring them [negroes] to an equal standing, in point of privileges, with the whites! They must enjoy all the rights belonging to human nature-[Fiske, tutor in Dartmouth College, 1795.] African slavery is unjust in its nature, impolitic in its principles, and in its consequences ruinous to the industry and enterprise of the citizens of these States. [Memorial of the Connecticut State Society for the Promotion of Freedom, &c., praying for Congress to abolish the slave-trade, and signed by EZRA STILES, (President of Yale College) President, and SIMEON BALDWIN, Secretary, 1791.]

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They [the slaves] have yet as much a right to their liberty as ever they had, and to demand it of him who holds them in bondage; and he denies them their right—which is of more worth to them than everything else they can have in the world, every hour he refuses or neglects to set them at liberty.

Slavery is, in every instance, wrong, unrighteous, and oppressive, a very great and crying sin, there being nothing of the kind equal to it on the face of the earth. [Samuel Hopkins, 1776.]

It will not do thus to talk like philosophers, and act like unrelenting tyrants; to be perpetually ser

monizing it, with liberty for our text, and actual oppression for our commentary. [Wm. Pinckney, in the Maryland House of Delegates, 1789.]

Domestic slavery is repugnant to the principles of Christianity. It prostrates every benevolent and just principle of action in the human heart. It is rebellion against the authority of a common Father. It is a practical denial of the extent and efficacy of the death of a common Saviour. It is an usurpation of the prerogative of the great sovereign of the universe, who has solemnly claimed an exclusive property in the souls of men. -[Benjamin Rush, 1794.]

I tremble for my country, when I recollect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep forever. The Almighty has no attribute that can take sides with us in such a struggle. [Jefferson, 1782.]

I thought it my duty to expose the monstrous impiety and cruelty, not only of the slave-trade, but of slavery itself, in whatever form it is found; and likewise to assert that no authority on earth can ever render such enormous iniquities legal. [Grenville Sharp, as early as 1787.]

Those are men-stealers who abduct, keep, sell, or buy slaves or freemen. To steal a man is the highest kind of theft. - [Grotius.]

He who supports the system of slavery is the enemy of the whole human race. He divides it into