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Show 34 DESPOTISM IN AMERICA. . . Ids 1vhat it can safely of prudent ..justice, winch I yJe the greatest tyrant of keep no longer, shall_ abso ~~ a neophyte from the them all, and send him for 0 ' washed and spotless; baptismal font of fr~edoS' ~:~ tbc ex-didtator, through anU he may walk, hke Y ardcd undisguised, aud the streets of Itome, un~~ has 'injured, yet never meet at every turn one sutler hann! . . uircs a moral courage a noble- But an act hke thiS rcq That justice is the highest ness o~ soul, ~1ot comiD;:· which our southern friends exped~ency, IS a ~aXI doctrine which they have not sometimes repeat, ut a ananimity to practise. the wisdom, nor. the ;nao need our help, our most judi- In the mean time tffieyd it we ought to understand cious care. But 1.0 . a ~r :ve 'must make ourselves fatheir actual condJtJfn' I' ly st:lle of things, of which miliar with that me anc ~ ions and the victims. they are at once \h~"chas ,;ecessary to us not on their And th1s know :l~~ ~11 our own. VVe form a part acconnt only, but It is hardly possible for onemcm· of the sam.e na~~nihe disease not to extend sympathctl· ber to sullcr, a 1 b d Suppose a generalmsurrcc, cally to !the wl;~ ':_,~h~·would be called npon for men, tton at t 1e sou ' tit down 'l. Suppose the slaves arms, and m~ney, to ~u . 't not the democrats of the rise upon thmr mastci~,~!s I lly bound to draw their north, ':'ho are . constJtu ~o~: '1-thosc very democrats. swords m behalf of despotiS . " t e to tyrants who have said and sworn, that res ts anc is obedience to God 1 1 f 11 xtcnt of this obligation; Let us learn, then, t lC u e . I a y thus let us know what that system IS, wluc l we m be called upon to uphold! CHAPTER FIRST. THE RELATION OF MASTER AND SLAVE. SECTION I. T!te Origin of Slavery. 'ruE relation of master and slave, like most other kinds of despotism, has its origin in war.. By the confession of its warmest defenders, slavery IS at best, but a substitute for homicide. Savages take no prisoners ; or those they do take, they first torture, and then devour. But when the arts of life have made some progress, and the value of labor begins to be understood, it is presently discovered that to cat prisoners, is not the most profitable usc to which they can be pnt. Accordingly their lives arc spared; and they arc compelled to labor for the benefit of their captors. Such is the origin of Slavery. It was formerly a practice in America to sell as slaves such Indian prisoners as were captured during the frequent wars waged with the aboriginal inhabitants. llut the great mass of those unfortunate persons held in servitude throughout the southern states, derive their origin from another sourr:c. A Virginian planter deduces the legitimacy of his dominion by the following process. Your great-grandmother being captured by a certain African prince,m a war, undertaken, doubtless, for the mere purpose of .making prisoners,-was sold upon the coast of Gumea to a certain Yankee slave-trader; and being transported by him to James River, was there sold to |