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Enemies To The Human Race: For The Signal Of Liberty

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Day
21
Month
July
Year
1845
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Public Domain
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slnery men slimild ron'inue to present to'lhe public mind the 'important, tnit'hs concerniría i-lnvery and its injurious effect s tipon the elaves oud the country. A sterwly, iinintcrmittipjr, and ever increa&ing ha lied apnmsi tliis instimtion should be spread wide .iiid sunk deep in the hearts of men. Public npimon shmild be be made one animatod tnns of burnin truth constjming witliin ts dames every pretensión to delend or jnptify, or npólonr'xec for the wfoftgs of slavery, fi:jd huriinv froni infliieiico every one who attempts to sns;ain rts abominatii-r?. Anllfivery nirn ibemseives linve (it half probod iisevils; tliey have, h is true, Joolced opon tS and behcld one Sjreat nnd extenive llamo of wrong and inin: but no ee lias reaclied the exient of its .pnce, no mimi cpnceived the depth of it torinents. Tnke for insiaoce, tlic single propsiiion that men are property: arialyzó it and sce to vvliat t lends. Ele who procl.iims thal men ore prnpcrly bcrause the luw declare-them to be so, proclnims t'mt all mn are the proper subjfKrlri of proj-.er;y whenever tho.-e who control the law spe fit to BX'and tlieir pouor oicr them. Jmw is nolhing hnl the emboditd tvill nj a nvmber of mm; and conscqiienily Jie tho procl.i.ms himsell' to be & oroper 6ubjpct to be convertid into pioper'y In' the forcé of l;iw, proclaims hiinsclf !o be nt the will and merry of biich men as may chance to have tbc power of nnikin ravvá in the country where he lives, or of uuy Hèï class of Jjw makers any whorc n th worlil, who have lbo power lo enforco tfieir laws over hun. Consequently, when n iheSenate, n 1339, onr great Statesrnan prociaimed "hal i-i property tchich the luw derjarrt ta be propry," he emid to nil the Poreniaten of Eifpe, "uil the citizens of this flourisliin country, inclufling mysélfj are property, sulijet3 of property whenever the luw sliall so ordoin; ju6tstre;ch oit the long nrm of' power, (all üfyon combined togetñer, if netíesáary,) end BAtend and enfercathe law of property ovrr vg,and we otiali !?d bonilJ to roiióider qucselvea vuur propt'riy, to be uscil for y uur purposes', lik your eoceo ond theep."' " Bnt the fu'.lv, t-tupidity and nbominatinn of ihiá principie ilo not end bere. VVhcn yon assert llie rightto reduce men to proper ty, yon nssert it os a universal riglif, and of course t embraces nll me in its extent : it is the oeseriíóñ tliat nny clnss of men have ihe 'ignt to acqiiire prop'èrty0 in tho bodies of al' "iher Kif-n wriènéyér Miey n::y fi'sve Bufficiert1 sower, nnd nlso' tiie rifjht of nuy one of ihis clüflSj to rcdnci' all the rest to property ond nako hnvelf Hip --ole rulcrof tlie Universe. Bnt fdo rifjlit to in -komen proprriy by Inw King ui inherent rfglVL it is not èxtirigüifiheu' n constqienco of th iniiver.-ril enluvoinent of men; all this vnst multituc'o of slaves have Jill (Hé rialit to èrislavé poch other, nnd eacli -ill the otlier mcludiiig the grrat grand nmser him=(?lf: bo the wurof cnsl.-ivcincnt rnny rightfuüy be carned on niitil but a single individual sliall rprnnin, wiih no human proporty 0 serve hini, nnd nu Immnn enemy to contend wilh. This principie, ns olove delinea tJ, is to n great exfent carried into praliucé 111 thi? couniry. 250,000 men enslave three milüoni. - The piüticnl powpr of the country is drawti into the Buppor' of the schomes of this clas? in their attt-mpi to exVend tho abotninaiiotis of this cure over a vast lïhèetlTed covm ry, while 1 larije proporiion of the ccclesiastical inflnence Itind iltemselves as th wltlïng defenders of this prinriple, which if Buccesèftil, cnr.not fui! to rehder oe half of thin dóligritfol countrv n hel! of torment far surpnssing in extent and tfuration the power of the human mind to conceive. The evita of Slavery need not be, provedjthe universal uiEtinct oftiinmiivl whni tle cue is its own, dieada and abbors them as the greatest that can fa 11 to the lol of man. Then, Iask,how pught the people uf this coiift try to rngard luoéé wlio &rn slnveholdersj nnd ihose vvho nre their sustainers nnd abettotfi. Are they nota class uhose great purpose of life it is to intlict injury vipon o'.hers, to deátn.y the háppinesa of society, to entnil upon heir poslerily evüsthat shall bring upon then) the retiibntion of Henven, an:l upon them the curses of tinborn eenerations? If those inlruEted with the Zionors of office prostrate that honor lo the purposes of this base crime, the crime 3 therefore the greater. [f thosc employed to geide the country in the truths nnd duties of religión, pervert thnt irust und lead the country into crime and irre ligini), their ofifitice is the greator nccording to the infltience they posps.1', i.ml the deepplion they prnctice. If sjavery did not exist in thie country nnd a elnss of foreigners should come in and propone to muke one half of the people, ffich and poor) s'faVes, nnd the other half slaveholder? and atteiüpt to corry the fcheme ïiifb effect, they uould be ïegarded ns the very out casis of bunianity, and immediptely expeüed the country or shut up in mad houses. VVhere tiien is the rfiilerence between the snpposed conduct of the foreigners and the nal conduct of the slaveholders ond their abpitora in this co.miry? There is only this ditTcrencc; the supposed fnreigners wóuldenslavetlie ricli inc poor ndiscriminntcly, while in country our slaeholding róiera ne;Irct the duty of protect'mg the ponrngnins! the invasions oí' the ricli and powerful, and entlave tlie poor, and afwist the rich in oppressing them, and a large port jon of tlie niinistprs of religión, inMead of preaching the j Gosnp! to the rich and poor indiscriminntely, j piëach oppRKssioN against the poor to the rich, and to the poor "obedintce to Iheir masI ['tosont the?e no?itions ns tindeniably true, ;i)dlhe cnnc'cisiuri f draw Ironi them is, thnt 11 men who promúlgate or BOftWin tlie doctrine th.it hr.man hcings enn be made Properiy by Iniman lewf, otight tobe rrgarded as the common ene mi es of the human race, and { ought not o be elevnted to any station of ni fluenco in Politics or Roliion.

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Signal of Liberty
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