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Show 170 Tilt: UDEitT\' JJEl,I,. mingled ; the fields of mortal tJassion must \)(~ sown with other seed ; the race must attain to a nobler stature. To rcmoYC Slavery, ono dcc1> moral conviction, such as motives of humanity and religion might impart, is nlono necessary. Slavery is an excrescence, an accident, a monstrous exception to the providcnlinl tenor of society. It is not implicated in the very progress, woven into tbc very texture of civilization as Pauperism is; all civiliz..'"ltion is against it, is impatient of it; the lowest form of civilization cries out at it. Pauperism, from its nature, involves no direct Guilt. Sbvery is essential Guilt. Lot us suppose for a moment that Pauperism did stand upon tho same footing with Slavery. Suppose you could point to a few thousand men, who were directly answerable for tho mental and moral imbecility, tho wretchedness and vice which poverty engenders, as directly answerable for it as tho Slaveholder is for tho miseries of the Slave. Suppose you knew tho men who wilfully caused PAUPEIUS.U AND SLAYErtY 171 the tears and CUl'Ses and . . f Crime that b k o thousands, and d rca the heart en anger tho safet of all. Would th y and peace . o community cndu mabie wickcdnc 1.1 rc such abom. sa or a day? Would ment submit to it;; l\I tho govern. ~ . ost assurcdl men would bo compel! 1 y not. Those ec to cease f cdncss at any sacrifi ' rom their wick· . co of propert right. No terms wo ld b 'Y or personal they did not u . o kept with them. If at onco yteld to the im . of humanity perat1ve voice . ' an army would sprin magiC, to root them g up, as by out from the earth Now precisely this is tho A d case with Sl n this fact alone self . avery. wholly aside th' £ ' mg Its relative agonies ' IB act alone sots it other social 0 .1 apart from all VI s, as an object of this reason es . ll assault. For pccia y, that it can b . demand that 't h o abolished, we I s all bo abolished reason e · · For this specmlly, we direct against it power of natural . f all tho JUS ICC and huma . power of tho rer . mty, all the 'SIOn of Christ F we will not be diverted. . ~rom this point If a man does not per- |