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Show 82 DF.SPOTTSI\1 TN Al\'IEUI\)A, starvation, nor let any man so usc it. God forbid.! Those are obvious cruelties; and so dearly percept!~ ble to the senses, that no man of common ln~man1t~, however thoughtless and unobservant, can ~a'.l .to petccive them; and no man of common scnstb!ltty ~an bear to inflict them. I have desired to caU attentiOn to suil'erinrrs of another kind-m~nt~l suffcrmgs,;-not 50 obviou~ yet far more excrucmtmg; slavery s second growlh, a rank and poisonous growth, more deadly than the first .. I have desired to pomt to the slave-holder, the fearful dilemma by which he is hemmed in .. The moment he ceases to inflict tortures at which Ius scnstbiiitles revolt the moment he yields to those prayers for mercy wh'ich his own heart re-echoes to him, at tl~at very moment he becomes the author of new suffermgs ten times more severe, than those he puts a stop .to. ~-Ie irritates while attempting to soothe; and the 01l winch he drops into the wounds of servitude becomes a bit-ter and acrid poison. . . This is one of those cases m whiCh all must be done, or nothing. Half measures, palliatives, do h~t inflame the disease. rr.,he only cure for slavery, 1s, freedom! CHAPTER SECOND. POLITICAL RESULTS OF TH~ SLAVE-HOLDING SYSTEJ\1. SECTION I. General View of the :Subject. The great objects aimed at, or which should be aimed at, in th~ politica_l constitution of a government, are 1st, ~ecurtty, 2nd,. F>:eedom, 3d, Equality. 8ecunty has two pnnCJpal branches, of which one relates to the person,. and the other to property. A good degree of sccunty m both these respects, is essentml to the comfort, and to the advancement of society. Freedom is either political or civil. Political Freedom consists in a participation, more or less direct in the appointment of magistrates, the enactment of Ia ~vs and other public acts. Civil Freedom depends npot; the sup~emacy of the laws. It guarantees every citizen ~gamst arbitrary and capricious interference. It adm1ts of no punishments except according to existIng statutes; and Hallows the enactment of no Jaw founded upon any other reason than the public good. E Equ.allty diVIdes ttself mto three sorts; 1st, Political . qualtty, or the equal participation in political privIleges, and the equal chance to enjoy political power·In othc.r words the perfection of political freedom; 2~d, Equality of property, or the most equal distribution ~ons1stent with security, of the wealth already exist~ mg, and the equal chance to produce or acquire ~ew Wealth ; 3d, :Social Equality, or the equal chance of aequmng estimation and regard by the exhibition of |
