The Conflict With Slavery
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JUSTICE AND EXPEDIENCY
_ OR, SLAVERY CONSIDERED WITH A VIEW TO ITS RIGHTFUL AND EFFECTUAL REMEDY, ABOLITION.
[1833.]
"There is a law above all the enactments of human codes,
the same throughout the world, the same in all time,--such
as it was before the daring genius of Columbus pierced
the night of ages, and opened to one world the sources
of wealth and power and knowledge, to another all
unutterable woes; such as it is at this day: it is
the law written by the finger of God upon the heart
of man; and by that law, unchangeable and eternal
while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and
abhor blood, they shall reject with indignation the
wild and guilty fantasy that man can hold property in man."
--LORD BROUGHAM.
IT may be inquired of me why I seek to agitate the subject of Slavery in New England, where we all acknowledge it to be an evil. Because such an acknowledgment is not enough on our part. It is doing no more than the slave-master and the slave-
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