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 3S Justice Euffin, of ^North-Carolina, who, in a solemn decision,

thus portrays, affirms, and deplores this terrible latitude "' The obedience of the

he

consequence only of uncontrolmaster must be absolute, to render the submission of the slave perfect. I must freely confess my sense of the harshAnd as a principle I feel it as deeply as any man can. ness of this proposition. of moral right, every person in his retirement must repudiate it. But in the actual There is no remedy. This discipline belongs condition of things, it must be so. " The to the state of Slavery. It is inherent in the relation of master and slave.' slave,'

led authority over the body.

State

v.

Mann,

And

this

.

.

.

says, 'is the

The power of

the

2 Devereaux R., 292.

same

terrible latitude has

been thus expounded in

a recent judicial decision of Virginia " It is the policy of the law in respect to the relation of master and slave, and for the sake of securing proper subordination and obedience on the part of the slave, to protect the master from prosecution, even if the whipping and punishment be Santher v. Cwclt, 1 Grattan t 673. malicious, cruel, and excessive."

—

Can Barbarism

further go

tion,

and absolutely

still

fortified

ing the testimony of slaves.

should occur, stranger than

Here is an irresponsible power, by the seclusion of the plantaby the supplementary law excludThat under its shelter enormities

?

rendered more irresponsible

fiction,

too terrible for imagination,

and surpassing any individual experience, is simply according The visitato the course of nature and the course of history. tion of the abbeys in England disclosed vice and disorder in startling forms, cloaked by the irresponsible privacy of monassimilar visitation of plantations would disclose more tic life.

A

fearful results, cloaked

by

Every Slave-master on prerogatives of a Turk. king."

This

is

true



the irresponsible privacy of Slavery.

Bashaw, with all the Hobbes, he is a "petty

his plantation is a

According

to

and every plantation

is

of itself a

pett}'

-

kingdom, with more than the immunities of an abbey. Six thousand skulls of infants are said to have been taken from a single fish-pond near a nunnery, to the dismay of Pope Gregory. Under the law of Slavery, infants, the offspring of masters " who dream of Freedom in a slave's embrace," are not thrown into a fish-pond, but something worse

is

done.

They

are sold.

But

only a single glimpse. Slavery, in its recesses, is another Bastile, whose horrors will never be known until it all is razed it is the dismal castle of Giant Despair, which, to the ground when captured by the Pilgrims, excited their wonder, as they this is



saw " the dead bodies that lay here and there in the castle-yard, and how fidl of dead men's bones the dungeon was " The re-