The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-05
J. NJ. BECK will address the people as fol-
lowe:
what tine cIvfttzed worId Thous A
of slavery.

OF siavery.
Chief Justice fancy not only asserts that
our fathers thought the negro had no rights,
and might justly be bought and cold, but
that that opinion was universal in the civil
lied world, and no one thought of disputing
il for century prior to the formation OF the
Constitution. Judge fancy IL Catholic;
and We will produce testimony which even
he will not gainsay, that some persons, and
very distinguished persons, too, did think OF
disputing it. Pope Gregory XVI. issued
bull for the abolition OF the slave trade, in
1889, and In that document be recites the
progress Of the abolition of slavery under
the influence OF the gospel in the early ages
OF the church, and proceeds as follows:
Hence, in progress of time, as the clouds
Of heather superstition became gradually
dispersed, circumstances reached that point,
that during several centuries there were no
slaves allowed amongst the great majority of
the Christian nations; but With grief we arc
compelled to add, that there afterwards arose,
even among the faithful, a race Of men who,
basely blinded by the appetite and desire of
sordid luere, did not hesitate TO reduce in re-
mote regions of the earth, Indians, negroes,
and other wretched beings, 70 the misery OF
slavery; or, finding the trade established and
augmented, to assist the shameful crime of
others. Nor did many OF the most glorious
of the Roman Pontiffs omit severely to re.
proveth conduct as injurious to their souls
health, and disgraceful TO the Christian name.
Among these may be especially quoted the
Bull OF Paul Ill, which bears the date OF the
18th OF May, 1887, addressed to the Cardinal
Archbishop of Toledo; aad another, still
more comprehensive, by Urban Viii, dated
the 22d of April, 1886.
Pope Benedict XIV. subsequently confirmed
these DEGREES OF those distinguished Pontlffs
by new Bull, addressed TO the heads Of the
governing authorities OF Brazil and other
regions, on the 18th of December, l74l, by
which he ex cited the solcitude Of the Bishops
for the same end.
Here we have the testimony Of Pope Gre
CORY XVI, that several Bulls had been is-
sued by bis predecessors, condemning slavery
and the slave trade and that Benedict XIV,
in l7il,-a half q century before the adop-
ton Of our Constitution, confirmed the pre-
vious Bulls in condemnation Of slavery
Chief Justice fancy cannot but know that
these Bulls Of the Pope constituted the NOR
OIL law of the greater portion of the civilized
world during the century preceding the for
nation OF the Constitution Of the United
States. The character Of the previous Bulls
may be gathered from this of Gregory XVI.
which we have before us. He SAYS, amongs,
other things:
Wherefore, ~e, desiring 10 asiusri ina,
Disgrace from the whole confines of CHRIS
ftanftg, have summoned several of our ven.
cradle brothers, their Emnences the Carii
mails, OF the Ii. K. Church, to our council
and, having maturely dellberated on the
whole matter, pursuing the footsteps of our
predecessors, atmonish by our apostoIical
authority, aud Urgently invoke in the Lord
all Christians, of whatever condition. that
none henceforth dare to subject to slavery.
unjustly prosecute, or despoii Of their goods,
Indians, negroes, or other classes Of men, or
be accessories 10 others, or furnish them aid
or assistance 10 80 doing and on 10 account
hencaforth 10 exercise that iIhuman traffic
by which negroes are reduced to slavery, az
If hey we're not men, but aut0mata or chat
tells. and are sold in defiance OF all the Iaws
of justice and humanity, and devoted to se-
we're and intolerable lahors. We further
reprobate, by orr apostolical authority, al
the above described oHenses as utterly IN