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256 NEGRO SLAVERY.
States. Negroes are regarded as merchandise in the
American law, and Congress could legitimately pass
laws preventing the sale and transfer of them from
one State to another; but in spite of numerous petitions
presented by the abolitionists, it refuses to do
any thing, even to express any opinion, in the form
of resolutions, against this odious system!
I acknowledge that a foreigner has no right to interfere,
directly or indirectly, with the institutions of
a country which he visits; but he has an undoubted
right to express his opinion concerning them. The
moral sentiments have been bestowed on us by the
Creator, and they revolt against cruelty and injustice
in every form: They are the voice of the Divinity
speaking within us: Civilized Man does not belong
exclusively to any one nation; he feels a brotherhood
with the whole human race; and he regards it as his
duty to exercise all his moral power to abate suffering
wherever it exists. In India, it was a native domestic
institution, that widows should be permitted
to burn themselves on the funeral piles of their husbands;
but the moral sentiments of civilized Man
were shocked with the practice. No American citizen
who had visited India, and seen this atrocity
flourishing under the eyes of the British Government,
would have been condemned by his own countrymen,
or by his own conscience, if, on his return to
the United States, he had published the most solemn
denunciations of the English authorities for permitting
it to continue; and yet this was a far more defensible
iniquity than slavery. The widows were
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Combe, George, 1788-1858. Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1, book, 1841; Edinburgh, Scotland. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1028/m1/296/?q=%221838%3F%22&rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.