God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.
I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.