Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-11-16
Testimony Against Slavery.

Through the columns OF the WING loT lNuH'S-
five years past, we have given the toStmonyin favor
Of slavery aud the arguments in support of the IN
stituton, We now commence publishing the evil
dencc on the other side, and now introduce u strong
chapter
Slavery is inconsistent with the genius Of Rcpub-
icanism-it lessons the sense of the equal rights of
mankind, and habtuatoS us TO tyranny and oppres-
sion.--[ Luther Martin Of Missouri
1t slavery is SO odious that nothing can be sul-
lcent to support II but positive law Lord Mans
field.
Slavery is contrary to the fundamental law Of all
societies. Montesqueu,
1t Is injustice to permit slavery TO remain for
single hour William Pitt
Slavery in all It's FORMS in all its degrees, is avio-
aton Of divine law, and a degradation of human
nature Brlssott
Those are men-stealers who abduct keep sell or
buy slaves Of freemon.-l Grotius.
Slavery is detrimental to virtue and industry
Beattic,
Slavery is system Of outrage and robbcry,-[So-
crates
Slavery is system Of the most complete injus-
tice.-[ Plato.
]
"l,hor blood. they will reject with indignation the
wild aud guilty fantaGy that man can hold property
in man Brougham.
/ Slavery is state so improper, so degrading, So
ruinous to the feelings and capacities of human ma
ture, that it ought not to be suffered to exist
Burke.
No man is by nature the property of another
[Dr. johnson.
A Il ..,,1,, al
the principles of morality, but as it appears to me
is pregnant with appalling and inevitable danger IL
the Republic Baron Humboldt.
Every man ha, property in his own person; Thu
nobody has right to but hmself.--[ Locke,
1t prevents human reason and induces men en-
dowed with logical powers to maintain that slavery
is sanctioned by the Christian religion,--[ John Q
Adams
never would consent, and never have consented
that there should be one foot Of slave territory be
yond what the old thirteen States had at the forma
ton of the Union. Never, never - Daniel Web
ster
1t slavery ought not to be introduced nor per
mitted in any of the new States John Jay.
Natural liberty is the gift of the benelcent Gre
ator of the whole human race Alexander HAmil
ton.
slavery Is an alrOcluun ueDanenlent ol human IA
ture-[ Franklin.
1t slavery impairs our strength as community
and posons our morals at the fountain head Judg
Castor, of North Carolina.
The evils of this system slavery cannot be cnu
merated.-[ George w Summers, of Va
So long us God allows the vital current to lo'
through my vens,I will never, never, never,by wor
or thought, by mind or will aid in submitting on
rood of free territory to the everlasting of HI
man bondagc.-[ Henry Clay
Sir envy neither the heart nor the head of thu
man from the North, who rises here lin Congress
to defend slavery from principles John Randolph
We have found that this evil slavery has preye
upon the very vtals of the Union, and has bee
preudcisl to all the States in which it has existed
james Monroe.
The abolition Of domestic slavery is the create
object Of desire in these Colonies where it was III
happily introduced in their infant state Thomi
Jefferson.
! can only say, that there is not man living VIII
wishes more sincerely than | do to see plan adop
ed for the abolition of it slavery u George Wasl
. ington.