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popes had become presumptuous despots assuming
20 dispose Of rights that belonged solely to AL
mighty God2
Such, sir, is the origin of negro slavery. The
bulls of five p%ontiiical despots, assuming to annihi.
late eternal Justice, and to break the moral bonds
which bind the human race together in one broth.
erhood. This is the origin of your darling insti.
tuition Of negro slavery,-fve bulls of five popes.
Such is the basis-the primary foundation OF your
pesuliar institution, you can Hnd no authority be.
You'd those bulls. You 60 to the bible, it is true,
but not to support negro slavery. That knows no
difference between the Ethiopian and the Caucus.
IAN. If it sanctions any slavery, it sanctions the
Slavery of the white,-uf native white Americans.
as much MS tho native black Americans. 1t is
solely the authority Of five ~despotic, corrupt popes,
in the worst age of the church, that furnishes you
specific rights to enslavo the children of Africa.
J is AUTHORITY granted in an age When the church
had become a mass Of corruption YOU must rely
unon thattur the support Of your southern insti-
tution. Abandon that aud you have no other, but
the second hand authority Of the tory deslotism Of
tue Stuarts. Abandon that and you have no al
Tentative butte confess yourselves original tyrants.
though humble imitators Of infamous popos and
iupi0us tories.
But YOU cannot oscane the olium that comes BY
knowledge of the fact, that, negro slavery has no
ether spccjf sanction but the bulls Of five wicked
r1pcs, and the Stuart dcsppts.
The crime of eusla,ing the Africans was pur-
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Ion for about three quarters Of a century before
they commenced the importation of slaves to Anne.
rica to supply the S1aniards in llispaniola. This
'ntainon6 work commenced in lj0S. The soul of
Charles '. revolte1 ut the idea of reducing the
image OF God" to the condition of n brute, and
IN 1910, under Il noble Indictment, ordered all
tae slaves IN the American Isles TO be set free.
Lesasea the governor, obeyed, but soon returned to
Spain with such a tale for the emperor rs induced
hin1 to consent TO the establishment of this
crime. Gold is an argument which princes seldom
orposo long. The French king shed some tears
when some Of his unprincipled aristocracy joined
the Spaniards and Portuguese in tho barter of hu.
man flesh. lie mad the principle Of man in him
and 1t revoltod at the thought of such a crime, but
lac gave way to other influences.
And here let me link two parts of the French
chain in the matter Of slavery, and show YOU at
the same time the primal law of society in its war
fare against this crime Of crimes. | have shown
that the principle that "aU men are born free" was
that by which slavery in France was abolished.
Now, it 50 happened that at tic time negro slavery
was introduced and established in the French colo
mics, contrary to the primary law Of the French
nation, she had quite sunk into a state of despo.
tism. The kings had abandoned Justice as the
rule Of civil power. They issued edicts permit
ting and sanctiouing the trade in human flesh
They laid down their regulations with regard to
this property in man" This was at the moment
when the Infamous house of Stuart was crushing
the liberties Of England, and laboring to re-estab-
lish slavery through its duminions. Contrary to the
fundamental law.of France, her kings, i~nstigated
by their corrupt lords, granted permission for the
Introduction Of slavery into France from her Anne
rican islands.
The parliament of Paris had not lost all sense
Of right aud propricty. Ithad the soul to make
some resistance to this despotism, but not be very
open in its measures. They did not consider"
says Denisart, chat the edicts of the king for the
introducduction of slavery" "pas opposed to tie
rOyI 3O ri Ivtg # Ma Jt.1Jn,, - ,nI 4lo.ac,.a 4lau
'refuSedt TO ahow the edicts to be recorded"
Thus was 1t declared by the parliament of Paris,
some four hundred years after Louis Y. proclaim
cd that all men are by nature born free" and
therefore that slavery is unlawful-that ;nyolunta-
ry bondage was opposed to the common law of
the kingdom" In spite Of this, however, the base
and infamous men Of the nation were determined,
under the sanction of the kings edicts, to bring in
negro slavery. The friends of Justice were, on
the other hand, too yigilant and determined to al
low it. Every case of a slave they could find, was
brought to I trial, and the Judges decided in favor
of the common tar Of society, the universal right
10 personal freedom. Thus you see once more,
siss, that the personal right Of every man 10 free
dom is the fundamental law of society-that slave
~ is opposed to the common law, and has been
pronounced to be SO by the highest authorities.
| have already shown that the same law acted in
England to the overthrow of slavery. The last
cases of slavery were decided III the reign of
Elizabeth and James /. There were men who
were now determined in England to set of the new
slavery at all hazards. In order to effect this,
they found 1t necessary to overthrow the constitu-
tuition, and to make n clean sweep of the fuuda-
mental principles Of society. 1t had been attemp-
ted in the reign of Elizabeth to introduce slaves
from Russia. A lucky circumstance brought the
case tie light in & manner which gave triumph to
freedom.
a change, however was coming over the English
nation. The friends of tyranny at court sanction
cd the introduction Of slavery into the colonies
aud under Charles l., a system of tyranny was de-
velopIng itself for the absolute slavery of the ma
ton. The people were reused, and Charles lost
his head for his despotism. This was but a mo-
mentary triumph. The means used by the Protec-
tor for preserving what had been gained introduced
another form of despotism. The friends of abso-
lutte slavery took advantage if it for regainiug their
lost power. They restored Charles H., to the
throne, secured themselves in places of the gov
eminent, and tranf3linG upon the fundamental law
of the realm, decided in the court Of the kings
bench in favor of negro slavery, the right of hold
ing property in man. The infamous Jefries was
the leading spirit of this tory court. Hence this
court Of kings bench decided, that negroes,
being usually bought and sold amongst merchants,
nnd being inhdels, there might be a property in
them sufficient 10 maintain the action, and Judge
inent, Risi, was given in fnvor OF holding negro
slaves in England.
Thus under the worst despotism England ever
knew. the same brutal power mat set at defiance
the rights of the English people. that t~rampled
upon the liberties and laws Of the nation, that
murdered in cool blood the friends OF freedom,
was the first that attempted to legalize the new
slavery in the British Kingdom, the first of the
English nation to side with the popes in the sane
zion of the trade in human aesh.
The English party of despotism received the
name Of tory, while that of France was called
iacohin. Both were in secret league with the pope
and controlled the worst characters among the
Jesuits. On the settlement Of the southern colo
mes this school had the asccndeucy in England,
except during the control Of Parliament and the
protectorship of Cromwell, at which time great
numbers Of the tories cam to America, and set
tied in Virginia. Hence | find on comparing the
present doctrines Of your school with those held
by the tories of that period respecting gov
crnment. the richls Of man md slnxnry that INN