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To

the

its

influences,

Barbarism of Slavery, in all whether high or low, as Satan is Satan still, whether towering in the sky or squatting in the toad. To the second I oppose the unanswerable, irresistible truth, that the Constitution of the United States nowhere recognizes property These two assumptions naturally go together. They in man. " are " twins " suckled by the same wolf. They are the " couple And the latter can not be answered in the present slave-hunt. without exposing the former. It is only when Slavery is exhibited in its truly hateful character, that we can fully apprefirst

I oppose the essential

ciate the absurdity of the assumption, which, in defiance of the

express letter of the Constitution, and without a single sentence, phrase, or word, upholding

human

bondage, yet

blameless text the barbarous idea that in

man

foists into this

can hold property

man.

On tally



former occasions, I have discussed Slavery only incidenas, in unfolding the principle that Slavery is Sectional

and Freedom National



in exposing the unconstitutionality of

the Fugitive Slave Bill



in vindicating the Prohibition of Slav-

ery in the Missouri Territory in exhibiting the imbecility throughout the Eevolution of the Slave States, and especially of

South-Carolina

Kansas.

and



On all

I have said too

lastly, in

these occasions,

little

unmasking the Crime against where I have spoken at length,

of the character of Slavery, partly because

other topics were presented, and partly from a disinclination

which I have always whom I knew to have

God be praised,

this

felt to all

press the argument against those

the sensitiveness of a sick man.

time has passed, and the debate

is

But,

now lifted

from details to principles. Grander debate has not occurred in our history, rarely in any history nor can this debate close or subside except with the triumph of Freedom.

First Assumption. of

—Of course I begin with the assumption

fact.

It

well

was the often-quoted remark of John Wesley, who knew

how to

use words, as also

how to

touch hearts, that Slavery

was " the sum of all villainies." The phrase is pungent but it would be rash in any of us to criticise the testimony of that illustrious founder of Methodism, whose ample experience of Slavery in Georgia and the Carolinas seems to have been all