The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-12-22
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Slavery is inconsistent with tho GO
MUS OF Republieanism-it lessons the
sense Of the equal rights Of mankind
and habituate us to tyranny and op.
preston Luther Martin, OF Mis-.
souri,.
1t Slavery is so odious that moth.
ing ean be sufficient to support it but
positive law Lord Mansfield.
Slavery is contrary to tho funda-
mental law Of all socicties.-[M Monies.
qnieu,
1t is injustice to permit slavery 10
remain for Single hour.-[Wm. Pitt.
Slavery in all it's forms, and its do
grees, is u violation Of divine law and
u degradation Of human nature
Brissott.
Those are men-stealers who abduct,
keep, sell, or buy slaves OF freemen.-
Grotius.
Slavery is detrimental to virtue and
inddstry.-[Beattic.
Slavery is system Of outrage and
robbery.-[Socrates.
Slavery is a system of fthe most com.
plete injustice.-[Plato.
No man is by nature the property
of another.-[Dr. Johnson.
Every man has property in bis
own person this nobody has a right
to but himself Locke.
1t perverts human reason and in
dnces men endowed with logical pow
ers to maintain that slavery is sane
TONED by the Christian 'religion.-[J.
q. Adams.
While mon despiso Fl aud, and loatho
rapine, and abhor blood, they will re.
ject with indignation the wild and
guilty fantasy that man can hold prop.
orty in mnn.-Brougham.
Slavery is state SO improper, so.
degrading, SO ruineus to the feelings
and capacities of human nature, that
1t ought not 10 be suffered to exist
Burke.
A system Slavery which is not
only opposed to the principles Of mo-
rality, but, as it appears to Inc, ID preg-
nant with appalling and inevitable
danger to the Republic Baron Hum.
boldt.
| never would consent and never
have consented that there should be
one foot of slavery beyond what the
old thirteen States had at the torma-
ton of the Union. Never, mover -
Daniel Webster.
1t (slavery) ought not to be intro
duced nor permitted in any Of the new
States John Jay.
Natural liberty is the gift of the
benifccnt Creator OF the whole human
race Alexander Hamilton.
Slavery is an atrocious debasement
of human nature.-[ Franklin.
1t slavery impaifs our strength.
as community, and poisons our
morals at the fountain head Judge
CASTOR.
The evils of this system (slavery)
clnnot be all enumerated.-[ Geo. W.
Summers, of Virginia.
SO long as God allows the vital cur.
rent TO flow through my viens, l will
never, never never, by word or
thought, by mind or will, aid in sub
hitting one rood of free territory to
the everlasting curse Of human bond
age Henry Clay.
Sir, l envy neither the heart nor the
head OF that man from the North who
rises here Gn Congress) to defend
slavery from principle John Ran
dolph.
We have found that this evil (sla.
very) has preyed upon the very vitals
Of the Union, and has teen prejudicial
to all the States in which it has exist
ed James Monroe.
The abolition of domestic slavery
is the greatest object or desire in these
Colonies, where it was uDhappily in
troduced in their infant statO.---- [Thos
Jefferson.
/ can only say, and there is not
man living who wishes more sincere
Iy thanI do to see plan adopted for
the abolition of it (slavery)----l George
Washington.
Not only does tho christian religion,
but nature herself, cry out against
slavery.---[Popc Leo y.
We further reprobate by our Apos.
tolic authority, all the above offsnses
(tratfic in slaves and holding them in
as utterly unworthy ofthe
Christian name.---Pope George XVI.
MULLER's EXECUTION.
The last great cosmopolitan scnsa-