6. _The slave may be punished at his master's discretion--without trial--without any means of legal redress,--whether his offence be real, or imaginary: and the master can transfer the same despotic power to any person, or persons, he may choose to appoint._ 7. _The slave is not allowed to resist any free man under any circumstances: his only safety consists in the fact that his owner may bring suit, and recover, the price of his body, in case his life is taken, or his limbs rendered unfit for labor._ 8. _Slaves cannot redeem themselves, or obtain a change of masters, though cruel treatment may have rendered such a change necessary for their personal safety._ 9. _The slave is entirely unprotected in his domestic relations._ 10. _The laws greatly obstruct the manumission of slaves, even where the master is willing to enfranchise them._ 11. _The operation of the laws tends to deprive slaves of religious instruction and consolation._ 12. _The whole power of the laws is exerted to keep slaves in a state of the lowest ignorance._ 13. _There is in this country a monstrous inequality of law and right. What is a trifling fault in the white man, is considered highly criminal in the slave; the same offences which cost a white man a few dollars only, are punished in the negro with death._ 14. _The laws operate most oppressively upon free people of color._ PROPOSITION 1.--_Slavery hereditary and perpetual._ In Maryland the following act was passed in 1715, and is still in force: "All negroes and other slaves, already imported, or hereafter to be imported into this province, and all children now born, or hereafter to be born, of such negroes and slaves, shall be slaves during their natural lives." The law of South Carolina is, "All negroes, _Indians_, (free Indians in amity with this government, and negroes, mulattoes, and mestizoes, who are _now_ free, excepted,) mulattoes or mestizoes, who now are, or shall hereafter be in this province, and all their issue born, or to be born, shall be and remain for ever hereafter absolute slaves, and shall follow the condition of _the mother_." Laws similar exist in Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana. In consequence of these laws, people so nearly white as not to be distinguished from Europeans, may be, and have been, legally claimed as slaves. PROP. 2.--_Labor compulsory and uncompensated, &c._