Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-08-04
sum Of yiIIianies.
THOUGHTS on SLAVERY, SELECTED fHoA
VARIOUS SOURCES.

unto you, do ye also to them like
wise.-JeSus. @ - ~
God has. made Of one blood, all
p nations of men for to dwell on the
face of the earth-,S. Paul.
siid = We hold these truths to be self
DAG evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their
aEat Creator with certain inalienable
5.el rights, that among these are life,
liberty, and the pursuit efhapplness.
July 4h, 1776.a r6T
No man desires more earnestly
paa dian I do to see slavery abolished.
s1ol There is only one proper way to do
it, and that is by legislative action,
and for that.ny vote. shall never be
asn wanting WasAaagto@: agiaI
One hour of American slavery is
fraught with more misery, than ages
of thatwhich we rose in rebellion to
oppose.-Je6erson.
Slavery is an atrocious debasement
Of human nature-Fronkhn.1 +. u
Slavery is dreadful calmity, i'm
becility is ever attendant upon a
country filled. with slaEes.-INadtsom.
Slavery has preyed upon the vitals
ofcommunity, in all the States where
it has existcd.-Uoufoe. 20
i Natural liberty is the. gift of the
beneficient Creator Of the whole hu-
man Hamilton.
1t Slavery ought hot to be intro
aduced, nor permitted in any part of
the new states-John Jag. aeaf
Conserving to slavery is a sacrili-
giDus breach Of trust.-John adams.
1t perverts human reason, and in
duces men endowed with logical
powers to maintain that slavery is
q sanctioned by the Christian religion,
John quincy adams.
Slavery is curse; curse to the
master; wrong, a 1greyious wrong
20 the slave; it is all wrong, and no
possible contingency can make it
right. They must blow out all the
rural lights around US, and extinguish
1.-THE greatest lightofall, which Ameri-
10 capresents tothe enlightened world,
pointing the way to their rights,
liberties and happiness. And when
they achievesall these purposes, their
4 work will yet be incomplete. They
e must penetrate the human soul and
eradicate the light Of reason and the
love oflibcrty. Then, and not till
then. when universal darkness and
dispair prevail, can you perpetuate
Slavery, and repress all. benevolent
4 efforts among freemen in behalf of
: Hthe unhappy portion of our race
:, doomed to bondage. So long as God
!! allows the vital current to run thro'
my veins, | will never, never, by
thought, by mind or will, aid in sub
s1S hitting one rood of free territory to
ss9the everlasting curse ofhuman bond
age.-Hearyia Clay. 1000 9T5I9
Sir, [ envy neither the heart nor
the head of that man, from the north
who rises here lin Congress- to de-
fend slavery from principle
Randolph.
Our opposition to the further ex
b tensions of local slavery in this coun-
try or to the increase Of slave repre-
sentation in Congress, is general and
universal nit has no reference to
limits oflatitude or points of com pass.
] Weshall oppose all such extension
and all such increase, in all places,
at all times, under all circumstances,
even against all inducements, against
all supposed limitation of great in-f
terest, against all combinations,
against all compromises. x Webster.
1t slavery impairs our strength as
community, and poisons our morals
at the sfoundatiqp head.-Gaston. I
The evils of this system s(slavery)
cannot be enumerated.-G George W.
SuD,merS. sa q.
The sweat Of slave peisons the
els sell upon which it falls his breath
is mildew to every green thing, his
tear withers the verdure it drops
upon IL, 1uPN. #Es ~ 4
The world has been thousands of
years and not learned the first two
words of the Lords prayer; not
until all tribes and all nations have
learn these, viii hisskingdom come
and his viii be done, on earth as it
is in >heaven-H Harriet B. Stoao.
eA ,ss5Weldo not believe with Mr.. Cal
houn, the Declaration of Indepen-
dence to be "a rhetorical flourish !"
- We do not believe it to be what Mr.
Petite pronounced it, "a self-evident
.bshe sNVeodo not believe itto.be, san
~ eloquent and passionate manifesto of
), revolutionary wal" "mere glitter
ing and surrounding generalities of
natural right We believe it to be
a living truth, from the pages of the
New Testament, expressed in the
Declaration of Independence, and
sssa embodied in the Constitution of the
81 United. States We believe the
maintenance Of that truth everywhere
under the exclusive Jurisdiction of
Congress. to be the constitutional and