The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27
The Testimony of Great Men Against
Slavery.

"Slaverv is inconsistent with the genius
of Republicanism-it lessons tho sonso of
the equal rights of mankind and habituatos
us to tyranny and oppression"
LUTHER MARTIN, of Md.
"It Slavery is so odous that nothing
can be sufficient to support it but positive
law" Lord MANSFIELD.
at is unjust to permit slavery to romain
for single hour" WILLIAM PITT.
slavery is contrary to tho Fundamental
law Of all societies" MONTESQUIE.
"Slavery in all its forms, in all its degrees,
is violation of divine law, and degrada-
ton of human nature" BRISSOP,
"Those arc men stcalcrs who abduct. keep.
sell or buy slaves or iroomen."
GROTIUS.
"SIavery is dotriment to yirtuo and
industry" BEATTIE.
"Slavery is q system, of outrage aud rob
berry ~ SOCRATES.
"Slavery is a system of the most complete
injustice" PLATO.
"Whie men despise fraud, and loathc
rapine and abhor blood. they will reject
With Indignation tho wild and guilty phan.
tasy that man can hold property in man"
BROUGHAM.
"Slavcry is n state so improper, so de-
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| pacities of human nature, that it ought not
to DO suffered to exist" BURKE.
No man by nature is tho property OF
another" DR.. JOHNSON
"A system Slavery] which is not only
opposed 10 all the principles of morality
but as it appears to me 10 pregnant with ap
palling and inevitable danger tn tho Repub
lic." Baron HUMBOLDT.
Every man is n property in his own por.
son; this nobody has right to but himself
LOCKE.
at perverts human reason, and induces
men endowed with logical powers to main
tain that o!a~ory ia sanctioned by the
Christian Religion" J. Q. ADAMS
81 never would consent, and never have
consented that there should be one foot Of
slave territory beyond what tho Old thirteen
States had at the formation of tho Union
Never. mover" DANIEL WEBSTER.
"It Slavery ought not to be introduced
nor permitted in any of the new States"
JOHN JAY.
"Natural liberty is the gift of the be.
nificGnt Creator of the whole human race.
ALEX. HAMILTON
".Slavory is an atrocious dobasemcnt Of
human nature" FRANKLIN.
1T Slavery] impairs our strength as L
community, and poisons our morals Mt the
fountain head" Judge GASTON of n G.
! The evils of this system Slavery canno
be enumerated"
G. W. SUMMERS, of Va.
$50 long as God allows the vital currcn
to flow through my veins, will never, never
by word or thought, by mind or will, aid il
submitting ono rod of Free Territory to thu
everlasting curse of Human Bondage"
HENRY CLAY.
,, "Sir neither envy the heart nor thu
head of that man from tho North who rise
here fin Congress to defend slavery from
principle" JOHN RANDOLPH.
> ave have found that this evil Slavery
0 has preyed upon the very vitals of tho Union
9 and has been prejudicial to all the States il
which it has existed
e JAMES MONROE.
: "Tho abolition of domestic slavery is tn
IS greatest object of desire in these colonies
where it was unhappily introduced in thei
infant state" THOS, JEFFERSON.
d 81 can only say, that there is not maj
. living who wishes more sincerely than d
u to SEQ plan adopted for tho abolition O
o it," Slavery GEO. WASHINGTON.
g For Mr.. O'Conor's special benefit we in
u troduce two other witnesses
o "Not only does the Christian religion, bu
u u nature herself, cry out against the state o
,, slavery" POPE LEO X.
d 1--WE further roprobate by our Apostolic
o authority all tho above offences [tratiic il
J slaves and holding them in slavery as ut
q terly unworthy of the Christian name.
l. POPE GREGORY, XVI.
n We simply add that tho Roman Catholic
IS Church, the Lutheran, the Greek, the Mes
II torian, the Church of England, the Pres
y byterian Church of Scotland, the Reform,
d Churches of France, Switzerland and Hol
o land indeed, the whole Protestant Churcl
all except few churches in the Southern
States-now, and at all times, have deplore
a a and denounced human bondage, as a soca
u moral and political evil-either by thei
creeds, laws or constitutions, or by the au
J thoritative opinions of their most eminen
divines -.NeiO York Tribune.
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