Such are the essential vices of Slavery, vices independent of the goodness or the wickedness of the master, vices irremediable,--for to correct them is to acknowledge that the Slave has some rights, it is to make a man of him, it is to commence emancipation.
Sumner argues that the inherent vices of slavery cannot be remedied without acknowledging the rights of the enslaved, which is a step towards emancipation.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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