Again:—
“In democracies, where they are all upon an equality, slavery is contrary to the principles of the Constitution.”
“Nothing puts one nearer the condition of a brute than always to see freemen and not be free.”
Again:—
“Even the earth itself, which teems with profusion under the cultivating hand of the free born laborer, shrinks into barrenness from the contaminating sweat of a slave.”
LOUIS X. issued the following edict:—
“As all men are by nature free born, and as this Kingdom is called the Kingdom of Franks, (freemen) it shall be so in reality. It is therefore decreed that enfranchisement shall be granted throughout the whole Kingdom upon just and reasonable terms.”
BUFFON says:—
“It is apparent that the unfortunate negroes are endowed with excellent hearts, and possess the seeds of every human virtue. I cannot write their history without lamenting their miserable condition.” “Humanity revolts at those odious oppressions that result from avarice.”