11 ery and Civilization there is an essential incompatibility. If are for the one, you can not be for the other and just in proportion to the embrace of Slavery is the divorce from Civili-
you
That Slave-masters should be disturbed when
zation.
posed, might be expected. fully made, while they
surely exclude
all
But the assumptions now
may
this is ex-
so boast-
not prevent the sensibility, yet
ground of protest when these assumptions are
exposed.
Nor
is
this the
only
difficulty.
me-not, and everywhere in sight
Slavery
is
now blooms
a bloody Touchthe bloody flower.
on the wayside as we approach the national steps which we mount it flaunts on
It is
on the marble
now in
stand
the house of
capital
it is
this floor.
I
About me while I speak who have shown in the past
its friends.
most sensitive guardians, they are ready either to do or not to do where Slavery is in question. Menaces to deter me have not been spared. But I should ill deserve this high post of duty here, with which I have been honored by a generous and enlightened people, if I could hesitate. Idolatry has been often exposed in the presence of idolaters, and hypocrisy has been chastised in the presence of Scribes and Pharisees. Such examples may give encouragement to a Senator who undertakes in this presence to expose Slavery nor can any language, directly responsare
its
how much
now made for this Barbarism, be open Slavery can only be painted in the sternest colors
ive to the assumptions to question.
but I cannot forget that nature's sternest painter has been called the best
The Barbarism of Slavery appears
first in the character of Slavery, and secondly in the character of Slave-masters. Under the first head we shall naturally consider (1) the Law
of Slavery and its Origin, and (2) the practical results of Slavery as shown in a comparison between the Free States and the Slave States. Under the second head we shall na(1) Slave-masters as shown in the Law of Slave-masters in their relations with slaves, here
turally consider
Slavery
(2)
glancing at their three brutal instruments;
(3)
in their relations with each other, with society,
and with Govern-
Slave-masters
ment and (4) Slave-masters in their unconsciousness. The way will then be prepared for the consideration of the
assumption of constitutional law.
