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Show 56 flF.S1'01'ISJ\T 1 to me by the consent and to be mine, and arc scc~J~cc because the security and warranty of a ll m y! tn °[ .t requires for himself the comfort of each mem )Cf ? 1 Bnt between slaves and like pri vilege a~d prote~twn.lpact 110 such consent, no masters, there IS uo sue t ~o~fhc n~astcrs claim a ll ; and such mutual arrang~c~h~y take all ; and if the slav~s so far as they a rc a e, nnin can secretly rcgam by stealth, b y ";t· by c~canir~~s from the fruits of the possessiOn ° som~ g ld th~ not 1 It is in thw their own labor, why 8 lOU . ~ it is a seizure and eyes a spoiling f flthe Efy\~'~~~~~t' they surely have a approp~mtlon ~ t~l:u!~\s~rs. . be~~c:tt:~~l~h:upposed that in the prosecutiOn of a ·ld'r; etual war, th~ p~under ;vill be a ll up~~\~;~cr~r:~ !}he dispro1Jort10n ~~hdo~~t~1~sa~~r!rfs"o" s;tperio~0carsors, as .their strhe~o a~ abundant spoils; the conry off nch trop tcs an some fragments to quered are we~ plefr~: ~~1!"~~~~-loaded ; tores of 'the filch some tn es lunderin<>' upon a great triumphant mvaders, who p . . h d ot the depravity scale themselves, a re yet astoms e a To ex ect of those who plunder don l a s;•~l;~ o~i~·tues of tfuth: as between masters an s_av~ . , Sl re-robit and benevolence, IS ndJcnlot~s. avery ~ove!the very foundation of those vntues. SECTION VJ. The treatnwnt of American slaves consu· z e J· ed as ani1nals. The slave'-master d est. rcs to I oo Ic u1p oIn . -his Isfl athvaets hOisS he docs npon his horses; to pers n!lt cl ~;~~1 ~P~!tP. cl:lnns empire over hoth is Pq nally J IIStj am l.l tncd with· and rights of_ h ~ rsf's and of slaves: nrf~ I'Oil .J in the same ltm11s. IN AMERICA. 57 But even in this view of the case, narrow and false as it is, the slave-holder too often falls lamentably short of wh.at common humanity, and ordinary good na tu rc req m re. A slave is an expensive animal, since he must be supplied not only with shelter and food, but with fire, and clothing. 'r herc a re however several circum~ stances in the cond1tion of the sou thern states, which operate at present to reduce these expenses to a mi ni~ mum. The houses of the slaves for the most par t, are little miserable log cabins, with chimneys of sticks and clay, without windows, and often without a floor, but one step in advance of the primeval wigwam. '"rhey contain but one room, in w h ich the whole fami~ ly is hudd led together without any regard to the privacies or decencies; of life ; nor a rc they in any respect superior, if indeed they arc equa l, to the slahlcs or the co\v house. The furniture is as rude as the dwelling, and betokens the lowest slate of poverty and destitution. When these cabins have become thoroughly rotten, and ready to tumble to the ground, they arc re~ built at no other expense except a few days labor of the plantation carpente r. Other thiugs h:1ve nn def~ gone grea t improvements;; bnt in the construction and comforts of a slave's cabin, the re has been little or no change for upwards of a century. Clothing, especially in the more northern of the slave states is an expensive item; but as its necessi ty in those parts of the coun try is the more apparen t, the good economy of furnishing a tolerable supply is more generally acknowledged, and the snfiCring of the slaves from deficiency of clothing, is probably ln~1Ch less than in the more sou thern states, where the mtldness of the climate encourages the masters to stint the allowance, and w here the numerous deaths a_mong the slaves from quinsy1 influenza, and pleu~ nsy? a rc a proof how insn fficicntly they are guarded aga.mst the sudden changes from heat to cold, to Wh1ch the whole climate of the United States is so |