Thou art a slave, whom Fortune’s tender arm With favor never clasped, but bred a dog. SHAKESPEARE, _Timon of Athens_, Act IV. Sc. 3. A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things. MILTON, _Paradise Lost_, Book II. 622-625. Onward! onward! With the night-wind, Over field and farm and forest, Lonely homestead, darksome hamlet, Blighting all we breathe upon! LONGFELLOW, _Golden Legend_. Instrumenti genus vocale, et semivocale, et mutum: _vocale, in quo sunt servi_; semivocale, in quo sunt boves; mutum, in quo sunt plaustra.--VARRO, _De Re Rustica_, Lib. I. cap. xvii. § 1. Nil metuunt jurare, nihil promittere parcunt; Dicta nihil metuere, nihil perjuria curant. CATULLUS, _Carm._ LXIV. 146, 148. Pone crucem servo.--Meruit quo crimine servus Supplicium? quis testis adest? quis detulit? Audi; Nulla unquam de morte hominis cunctatio longa est.-- O demens, ita servus homo est? Nil fecerit, esto: Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas. JUVENAL. _Sat._ VI. 219-223. There is a tradition of the Prophet having said, that the greatest mortification at the Day of Judgment will be when the pious slave is carried to Paradise and the wicked master condemned to Hell.--SAADI, _The Gulistan_, tr. Gladwin, p. 242. “And the Black Oppressor am I called. And for this reason I am called the Black Oppressor, that there is not a single man around me whom I have not oppressed, and justice have I done unto none.” … “Since thou hast, indeed, been an oppressor so long,” said Peredur, “I will cause that thou continue so no longer.” So he slew him.--_The Mabinogion_, tr. Lady Charlotte Guest, Vol. I. pp. 341, 342. After we had secured these people, I called the linguists, and ordered them to bid the men-negroes between decks be quiet (for there was a great noise amongst them). On their being silent, I asked, What had induced them to mutiny? They answered, _I was a great rogue to buy them_ in order to carry them away from their own country, and that they were resolved to regain their liberty, if possible.--SNELGRAVE, _New Account of some Parts of Guinea and the Slave-Trade_, p. 170.