Cannibals all! or, Slaves without mastersFitzhugh, George
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Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters
Fitzhugh, George
Slave labor; Slavery -- Justification; Slavery -- United States; Working class
It never did occur to us, that the paupers had the best right to all the
farms, until we saw this new application of the Higher Law. But 'tis
clear as noon-day, if you grant the Higher Law, as expounded by Mr.
Seward; and we expect soon to hear that they are bringing their titles
into court. Anti-rentism looked this way, and anti-rentism chose its own
Governor and Judges.
But Mr. Garrison outbids Mr. Smith all hollow for the pauper vote. He
promises not only to every one his "vine and fig-tree," but a vine and
fig-tree that will bear fruit without culture. He is going to get up a
terrestrial paradise, in which there will be no jails, no taxes, no
labor, no want, no sickness, no pain, no government--in fact, no
anything. But he shall speak for himself. We find the following in the
_Liberator_ of 1st August:
"Indeed, properly speaking, there is but one government, and that
is not human, but divine; there is but one law, and that is 'the
Higher Law;' there is but one ruler, and that one is God, 'in whom
we live and move, and have our being.' What is called human
government is usurpation, imposture, demagoguism, peculation,
swindling, and tyranny, more or less, according to circumstances,
and to the intellectual and moral condition of the people.
Unquestionably, every existing government on earth is to be
overthrown by the growth of mind and moral regeneration of the
masses. Absolutism, limited monarchy, democracy--all are sustained
by the sword; all are based upon the doctrine, that 'Might makes
right;' all are intrinsically inhuman, selfish, clannish, and
opposed to a recognition of the brotherhood of man. They are to
liberty, what whiskey, brandy and gin are to temperance. They
belong to the 'Kingdoms of this World,' and in due time are to be
destroyed by the Brightness of the coming of Him, 'whose right it
is to reign;' and by the erection of a Kingdom which cannot be
shaken. They are not for the people, but make the people their
prey; they are hostile to all progress; they resist to the utmost
all radical changes. All history shows that Liberty, Humanity,
Justice and Right have ever been in conflict with existing
governments, no matter what their theory or form."
Mr. Greely's Phalansteries, Mr. Andrews' Free Love, Mr. Goodell's
Millenium, and Mr. Smith's Agrarianism, all pale before this Kingdom of
Mr. Garrison's. He is King of the Abolitionists, Great Anarch of the
North.
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