If they were captured, then there was no necessity for killing them. If there was no necessity for killing them, then they had no right to kill them. If they had no right to kill them, then they had no right to enslave them under the pretence that they had saved their lives. Slavery has been upheld by law and religion in every country. The word Liberty is not in any creed in the world.
Slavery is right according to the law of man, shouted the judge.
It is right according to the law of God, shouted the priest. Thus sustained by what they were pleased to call the law of God and man, slave- holders never voluntarily freed the slaves, with the exception of the Quakers. Civil war has been the great liberator of the world. Slavery has destroyed every nation that has gone down to death. It caused the last vestige of Grecian civilization to disappear forever, and it caused Rome to fall with a crash that shook the world.