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And permit me to say, that every apwhether to the Duel, the bludgeon, or the revolver every menace of personal violence, and every outrage of language, peal to your thunder."

—

peal,

besides disclosing a hideous Barbarism, also discloses the fever-

ed nervousness of a cause already humbled in debate.

Much

been said to exhibit the Character of Slaveif I failed to point out that unconsciousness of the fatal influence of Slavery, which completes the evidence of the Barbarism under which they live. Nor am I at liberty to decline this topic but I shall be brief. That Senators should openly declare Slavery " ennobling," at least to the master, and also " the black marble keystone of our national arch," would excite wonder if it were not explained by the examples of history. There are men who, in the spirit (4.)

masters, the

as has

work would be incomplete



make themselves the partisans of a bad cause, as Jerome Cardan wrote an Encomium on Nero. But where there

t>f

is

paradox,

no disposition to paradox,

who

it is

natural that a cherished prac-

nor is there its influence According to Thucydides, piracy in the early ages of Greece was alike widespread and honorable so much so, that Telemachus and Mentor, on land" ing at Pylos, were asked by Nestor if they were " pirates precisely as a stranger in South-Carolina might be asked if he were a Slave-master. Kidnapping, too, which was a kindred indulgence, was openly avowed, and I doubt not held to be " ennobling." Next to the unconsciousness which is noticed in tice

should blind those

are under



any end to these exaggerations.



childhood,

barian

is

is

The real Barthe unconsciousness of Barbarism. an infant and the Slave-master

as unconscious as



sh6ws much of the same character. No New-Zealander exults in his tattoo, no savage of the North-west coast exults in his flat and alhead, more than the Slave-master in these latter days

— — exults in his ways, of course, with honorable exceptions fortunate condition.

The Slave-master hugs

un-

his disgusting

hugged Cannibalism, and as Brigham Young now hugs Polygamy. The delusion of the

practice as the Carib of the Gulf

" Goitre "

is

constituting breast, is

repeated.

This prodigious swelling of the neck, pendulous upon the

" a hideous wallet of flesh"

common

to the population

on the slopes of the Alps



but, accustomed to this deformity, the sufferer comes to regard