Review By A Pittsburgher Of A Pamphlet Entitled View Of The Subject Of Slavery

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ISBN 13 : 9780484150712
Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book Thoughts on Slavery, Rebutted by Other Thoughts on the Same Subject written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thoughts on Slavery, Rebutted by Other Thoughts on the Same Subject: Being a Review of a Pamphlet Issued From the Press of Daniel Bixby, Lowell, Mass, 1848 Our author starts with the position, undoubtedly a true one, that slavery has become the most exciting topic of the day. To our country, thanks to the late Mexican war, it has indeed become a question of por tentous magnitude, threatening to array section against section in deadly hostility, and to lay in ruins the fair fabric of government, reared by the wisdom of our patriot sires. What heart, that surveys the pros peet before us, but must be appalled by the darkcloud that hangs, like a presage of death, over its once bright and smiling scenes 7 Already is the cup of trembling, which the Divine Providence has indis solubly linked to national wrong, held to our lips. We begin to taste its bitterness and, unless we with draw our hand, we shall be compelled to drain it to the last dreg. If we persevere in the career of con quest and annexation on which we have started, our doom is sealed. The issue is as certain as the justice of Heaven. Justinian and the civil lawyers have assigned three origins to the right of slavery, -the law of nations, the civil law, and the law of nature, - jure gentium, jure civili, and jure naturae. The conqueror, say the civilians, has a right to the life of his prisoner. He may, therefore, lawfully subject him to servitude, on the principle that the greater right includes the less. Again, the civil law of the Romans empowered debtors to sell themselves. And, thirdly, according to the same authorities, the law of nature requires, that the children whom a' father, reduced to slavery, is no longer able to maintain, should be reduced to the same state as the father himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.