This is truly what our opponents affirm; but we say that all the laws which sustain the system of slavery are unjust and oppressive--contrary to the fundamental principles of morality, and, therefore, null and void.
She challenges the validity of laws supporting slavery, asserting they are fundamentally unjust and should be considered void.
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Those who view with horror the traffic in slaves by ministers of the gospel, express more freely their pain at its indulgence, than I have ever known.
Instead of being in love with the virtue exhibited by the individual, because it is virtue, he is delighted with the personal convenience he experiences from the exercise of that virtue.
Slavery must be attacked with the whole power of truth and the sword of the spirit.
Send us facts--send us kind remonstrance and manly reasoning.