A View of the Action of the Federal Government in Behalf of Slavery

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: abominations of the system ; it was moreover an express acknowledgement by the Government of its power to prohibit slavery throughout the whole territory, and that it had made a Compromise, a bargain between humanity and cruelty, religion and wickedness; and had erected on an arbitrary line, a partition wall between slavery and liberty. But it is in the District of Columbia, and under the shadow of the proud Capitol, that the action of the Federal Government in behalf of slavery, is exhibited in its most odious and disgusting forms. We shall have occasion presently to exhibit the seat of the National Government, as the great slave mart of the North American Continent, " furnished with all appliances and means to boot." The old slave laws of Virginia and Maryland, marked by the barbarity of other days, form