Abolitionists are guilty of the inexcusable wickedness of holding up this ancient Roman slavery, as a model of American slavery; although they know that the personal rights of apprentices and slaves, are as well defined and secured, by judicial decisions and statute laws, as the rights of husband and wife, parent and child.
[230] These letters were first published in the Religious Herald, Richmond.
[231] This letter was addressed to Elder James Fife.
[232] Texas and Michigan; see also, Arkansas and Indiana, Florida and Wisconsin.
[233] President Dew's Review of the Virginia Debates on the subject of Slavery.
[234] Paulding on Slavery.
[235] I refer to President Dew on this subject.
[236] It is not uncommon, especially in Charleston, to see slaves, after many descents and having mingled their blood with the Africans, possessing Indian hair and features.
[237] The author of "England and America." We do, however, most indignantly repudiate his conclusion, that we are bound to submit to a tariff of protection, as an expedient for retaining our slaves, "the force of the whole Union being required to preserve slavery, to keep down the slaves."
[238] Fourierites, Socialists.