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THE CONFLICT WITH SLAVERY
JUSTICE AND EXPEDIENCY
OR, SLAVERY CONSIDERED WITH A VIEW TO ITS RIGHTFUL AND EFFECTUAL REMEDY,ABOLITION.
[1833.]
"There is a law above all the enactments of human codes, the same throughout the world, the same in all time,—such as it was before the daring genius of Columbus pierced the night of ages, and opened to one world the sources of wealth and power and knowledge, to another all unutterable woes; such as it is at this day: it is the law written by the finger of God upon the heart of man; and by that law, unchangeable and eternal while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they shall reject with indignation the wild and guilty fantasy that man can hold property in man." —LORD BROUGHAM.
IT may be inquired of me why I seek to agitate the subject of Slavery inNew England, where we all acknowledge it to be an evil. Because such anacknowledgment is not enough on our part. It is doing no more than theslave-master and the slave-trader. "We have found," says James Monroe,in his speech on the subject before the Virginia Convention, "that thisevil has preyed upon the very vitals of the Union; and has beenprejudicial to all the states in which it has existed." All the statesin their several Constitutions and declarations of rights have made asimilar statement. And what has been the consequence of this generalbelief in the evil of human servitude? Has it sapped the foundations ofthe infamous system? No. Has it