“If you will adopt the principles of Liberty, adopt them altogether. Every argument which you can urge in support of your own claims might be employed, with far greater justice, in favor of the emancipation of your bondsmen. When that event shall have taken place, your demand will deserve consideration. At present, what you require under the name of Freedom is nothing but unlimited power to oppress. It is the freedom of Nero.”[10] The threats of disunion, coming from slave-drivers, are also foreshown, and treated with the scorn they merit. “Who can refrain from thinking of Captain Lemuel Gulliver, who, while raised sixty feet from the ground on the hand of the King of Brobdignag, claps his hand on his sword and tells his Majesty that he knows how to defend himself? You will rebel!… But this is mere trifling. Are you, in point of fact, at this moment able to protect yourselves against your slaves without our assistance? If you can still rise up and lie down in security,--if you can still eat the bread of the fatherless and grind the faces of the poor,--if you can still hold your petty Parliaments, and say your little speeches, and move your little motions,--if you can still outrage and insult the Parliament and people of England,--to what do you owe it?”[11] The sensitiveness of slave property--the same in our Slave States as in the British West Indies--is aptly described in the remark, that a pamphlet of Mr. Stephen or a speech of Mr. Brougham is sufficient to excite all the slaves in the colonies to rebel. And it is shown that in a servile war the master _must_ be loser; for his enemies are his chattels. Whether the slave conquer or fall, he is alike lost to the owner. In the mean time, the soil lies uncultivated, the machinery is destroyed. And when the possessions of the planter are restored to him, they have been changed into a desert.[12] Here also is an exhibition of the incompatibility between Slavery and Christianity, which ought to be read in every Southern pulpit:--