3S Justice Euffin, of ^North-Carolina, who, in a solemn decision,
thus portrays, affirms, and deplores this terrible latitude "' The obedience of the
he
consequence only of uncontrolmaster must be absolute, to render the submission of the slave perfect. I must freely confess my sense of the harshAnd as a principle I feel it as deeply as any man can. ness of this proposition. of moral right, every person in his retirement must repudiate it. But in the actual There is no remedy. This discipline belongs condition of things, it must be so. " The to the state of Slavery. It is inherent in the relation of master and slave.' slave,'
led authority over the body.
State
v.
Mann,
And
this
.
.
.
says, 'is the
The power of
the
2 Devereaux R., 292.
same
terrible latitude has
been thus expounded in
a recent judicial decision of Virginia " It is the policy of the law in respect to the relation of master and slave, and for the sake of securing proper subordination and obedience on the part of the slave, to protect the master from prosecution, even if the whipping and punishment be Santher v. Cwclt, 1 Grattan t 673. malicious, cruel, and excessive."
—
Can Barbarism
further go
tion,
and absolutely
still
fortified
ing the testimony of slaves.
should occur, stranger than
Here is an irresponsible power, by the seclusion of the plantaby the supplementary law excludThat under its shelter enormities
?
rendered more irresponsible
fiction,
too terrible for imagination,
and surpassing any individual experience, is simply according The visitato the course of nature and the course of history. tion of the abbeys in England disclosed vice and disorder in startling forms, cloaked by the irresponsible privacy of monassimilar visitation of plantations would disclose more tic life.
A
fearful results, cloaked
by
Every Slave-master on prerogatives of a Turk. king."
This
is
true
the irresponsible privacy of Slavery.
Bashaw, with all the Hobbes, he is a "petty
his plantation is a
According
to
and every plantation
is
of itself a
pett}'
-
kingdom, with more than the immunities of an abbey. Six thousand skulls of infants are said to have been taken from a single fish-pond near a nunnery, to the dismay of Pope Gregory. Under the law of Slavery, infants, the offspring of masters " who dream of Freedom in a slave's embrace," are not thrown into a fish-pond, but something worse
is
done.
They
are sold.
But
only a single glimpse. Slavery, in its recesses, is another Bastile, whose horrors will never be known until it all is razed it is the dismal castle of Giant Despair, which, to the ground when captured by the Pilgrims, excited their wonder, as they this is
saw " the dead bodies that lay here and there in the castle-yard, and how fidl of dead men's bones the dungeon was " The re-
