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Show v'".1\-"‘-"J"‘Y-1W' ryenrnew . .373" .a?» IoiJr SERIES oi‘ ANSWElilS to Apology (fueh as it is) will be attempted to be made: " Mr. Locke was then a young Man, " as appears by the Date of this Code of Laws " [i009] \nd as he lived underthe Reign of a " Tymiiziml STUART [CHARLES 11.] it is no " Wonder, that he lliould be a little tainted " With the Vices of the Times." Well [waving at prefent the Confideration, that [0 filled; a Jl/iuliitzide [0 do 1517i! is nojult Exeufe] let us attend this great Man to the Zlira of Liberty, and to the Times litbl‘equent to the Revolution: Nay, let us he, what were his real Sentiments concerning Slavery in tha very 'l‘reatile, which was laid to have been wrote in Defence of the Revolution : A llrange Defence it was I I meah his 'l‘reatile on Gmernmcnt. For in that very Treatile, Book 2, Chap. 7, carpal/lira! or civil Sonic/y. We llhd the following allonilhing Po-- lition. " There is another Sort of Servants, POPULAR OBIECTIONS. 105 Book, which fem to contradic‘t this Polttion, I am not to be anlwetable for hisfcemizzg Contradiction] Nothing therefore now remains, but to determine, whether this, or any other War carried, or to be carried on, is jufl, or uizjufl. And two Sets of Cal‘uillts will always make quick Difpatch with that Matter: Our Guim'y Captains in one Inftance, and fuch Party-Writers as Dr. PRICE in the other. Indeed Dr. PRICE has already determined, that the War on the Part of the American: is merely defc'iwve, confequently jufl and nmfizry. Therefore it mul‘t follow ac- cording to the above Petition of Mr. LOCKE, that every Eizglz'flmmn taken Prilbner in the prelent War, is by the Rig/z: of Nature, [0 be fab/ab? to 1116 abfolule Dominion and arbitrary Power of " who being Captives taken in a jag/b [1427", are bit American Mafia". And as to the Gziz'my Captains, they too can eafily find as good an Apology as the Doétor's, for making War upon the poor Negroes, or for cauling others to make " by [/15 Rig/1! of Nature, fubjeéled to the m;- War againfl them, in order to procure Slaves. " SOLUTL‘ DOMINION, AND ARBITRARY POWER " (ft/1a.?" frflgflt'i‘J." Confequently, Blacks, or Whites, the Inhabi- " which by a peculiar Name we call SLAVES, tants of Africa, or of Great-Britain are, accord- ing to this comfortable Interpretation of the READER, I can proceed no farther; for the Point is here decided, as far as the Judgment of Mr. LoeKE can decide it. [And if he has maintained Opinions in other dillant Parts of his Book, Law of Nature, and the Rights of Conqueft, under the fame Condemnation: And nOthing but Force is wanting tojul'tify the felling 215 a]! for Slaves. ' V Glorious Titles thele! Glorious Deeds! H i |