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Show ~0 T.IDERTY AND S LAYERY. to the auolitiouist, C\·cn more freely than he can assert, that the "soul of the slave is his own." o,·, rather, we want that his soul belongs exclusively to the God who gave it. The master may usc him not as a tree or a brute, but only as a rational, accountable, aud immortal being may be used. lie may not command him to do any thing which is wrong; and if ho should so far forget himself as to require such service of his slave, he would himself be guilty of the act. If he should require his slave to violate any law of the land, he woultl be held not as a particeps criminis merely, but as a criminal in the first degree. In like mann01·, if he should require him to violate the law of God, he would be guilty-far more guilty than the slave himself- in the sight of heaven. These are truths which are just as well understood at the South as they are at the N ortb. The master, we repeat, lays no claim to the soul of the slave. lie demands no spiritual service of him, he: A3xacts no divine honors. With his own sottl he is fully permitted to serve his own God. With this soul he may follow the solemn injunction of the Most liigh, "Servants, obey your masters;" or he may listen to the voice of the tcmptCl·, "Scn·ants, AROUMENTS OF ADOLITIONISTS. 91 fly f1·om your masters." Those only who instigate him to violate the law of God, whether at the North or at the South, arc the men who seck to dcpri ve him of his rights and to exercise an infamous dominion over his soul. Since, then, the master claims only a right to the labor and lawful obedience of the slave, and no right whatever to his soul, it follows that the argument, which Dr. Channing regards as the strongest of his seven, bas no real foundation. Since the master claims' to have no property in the " rational, moral, and immortal" part of his being, so all the arguments, or rather all the empty declamation, based on the false supposition of such claim, falls to the ground. So the passionate appeals, proceeding on the supposition of such a monstrous plaim, and addressed to the religious sensibilities of the multitude, arc only calculated to deceive and mislead their judgment. It is a mere thing of words; and, though "full of sound and fury," it signifies nothing. "The traffic in human souls," which figures so largely iu the speeches of the divines and demagogues, and which so fiercely sti1·s up the most unhallowed passions of their hearers, is merely tlte transfer of a rig ltt to labo1·. Docs any one doubt whether such a right may |