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65

Mr. President,

it is

time to close this branch of the argument.

The Barbarism of Slavery has been now exposed,

Law

of Slavery, with

pretensions, founded

its five

first,

on the

in the asser-

tion of property in man, the denial of the conjugal relation, the infraction of the parental relation, the exclusion from knowledge

and the robbery of the

fruits

of another's labor,

the single object of compelling

men

to

all

work without

these having ivages,

while

Barbarism was still further attested by tracing the law in its origin to barbarous Africa and secondly, it has been exposed in a careful examination of the economical results of Slavery, its



illustrated

by

a contrast between the Free States and the Slave

States, sustained

by

official figures.

Slavery, I proceeded to consider

its

From

this

exposure of

influences on Slave-masters

whose true character stands confessed, first, in the Law of next, in the relations between Slavery which is their work them and their slaves, maintained by three inhuman instruments next, in their relations with each other and with societ}r and here we have seen them at home under the immedialso in the communities of which tbey ate influence of Slavery practicing violence, and pushing it everywhere, in are a part especially raging against all who question street-fight and duel the pretensions of Slavery entering even into the Free States



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but not in lawless outbreaks only also in official- acts, as of Georgia and of South-Carolina, with regard to two Massachuand then ascending in audacity, entering the setts citizens



Halls of Congress, where they have raged, as at home, against all who set themselves against their assumptions, while the

whole gloomy array of unquestionable facts has been closed by portraying the melancholy unconsciousness which constitutes one of the distinctive features of

Such

is

my

this

Barbarism.

answer to the assumption of

fact in behalf of

Slavery by Senators on the other side. But before passing to that other assumption of constitutional law, which constitutes the second branch of this discussion, I add testimony to the influence of Slavery

on Slave-masters in other

too important to be neglected, and

may

countries,

which

is

properly find a place

here.

Among those who

have done most to press forward in Eussia by which the present Emperor

that sublime act of emancipation