Governor Johnstons Speech On American Affairs On the Address in Answer to
Governor Johnstons Speech On American Affairs On the Address in Answer to
George Johnston
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The state of slavery cuts off all the great magnanimous inventive powers of the human mind, but it rather strengthens fidelity and attachment. The Roman history fully confirms this : Amidst the multiplied treachery of friends and relations, amidst the greatest temptations, during the corruptions of that government, the slave was seldom or never unfaithful to his master. The principle lies in human nature. Where mankind are deprived of the means of getting subsistence, where they are accustomed ...to look * Gov. Littelton. II GOVERNOR JOHNSTON'S SPEECH up to another for food, raiment, and protection, they insensiby forget the original injury they sustained, and become attached to their master. In general, I must also observe, that masters are kind to their slaves. It is not he who uses the scourge and the whip, which the hon. Gentleman has mentioned, that is the first to put the musket on his shoulders in such glorious contests as these; it is not he who tortures and frets his fellow- creatures : but he who feels that universal benevolence which extends his affections to all men in their several stations ; who feels the spirit of equality ; who knows the principles of liberty, who understands the consequence of those rights, without which we are always worse men and worse subjects; and who is willing, for the benefit of children yet unborn, to seal the truth of his doctrine with his blood.
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