ROUSSEAU says:—
“The terms slavery and right, contradict and exclude each other.”
BRISSOT says:—
“Slavery, in all its forms, in all its degrees, is a violation of divine law, and a degradation of human nature.”
THE VOICE OF GERMANY.
GROTIUS says:—
“Those are men-stealers who abduct, keep, sell or buy slaves or free men. To steal a man is the highest kind of theft.”
“Such busy multitudes I fain would see
Stand upon free soil with a people free.”
LUTHER SAYS:—