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38 upon his master's property as indemnity, but also demand, and if necessary, coerce his freedom. The plain meaning of this principle is, that there should be a general insurrection among the slaves in the South, in which they should murder all men, women, and children, who do not at once sanction their claims. Secondly, that form of society in which slavery can reside in peace, must be radically wrong. Therefore the structure must be torn down, as an old-fashioned, rickety building is torn down in a fashionable street, and an entire reconstruction of the edifice be made on free and socialistic principles. Thirdly, the political confederation which can recognize and tolerate slavery as a legal institution, must be a rotten, disgraceful concern. Hence this American Union must be exploded. And fourthly, the religion which can even be suspected of sanctioning the monstrous iniquity must be devilish, and not divine. Therefore, the Bible is either uninspired, and a mass of mingled truth and error, or it is one gigantic scheme of imposition: or, at the least, Christianity as commonly held is a lie, and an incubus, and the sooner it is thrown off the better, and men be left to the glories of a natural religion, developed from the ultimate principle of Abolition liberty—which means, abolish God, abolish Christ, abolish the Church, abolish the ministry, abolish the government, abolish society, abolish the family, abolish penalties, abolish compromise, abolish decency; and revel in all the delights of their opposites, especially of anarchy and