Thus is every argument for recognition repelled, whether under the sounding words, Practice of Nations, Comity of Nations, or Peace. There is nothing in practice, nothing in comity, nothing in peace, which is not against any such shameful acknowledgment. * * * * * Applying the principles already set forth,--assuming what cannot be denied, that every power is free to refuse recognition,--assuming that it is not every body of men that can be considered a commonwealth, but only those “associated _through agreement in right and community of interest_,”--that men “banding together for the sake of systematic crime” cannot be considered a commonwealth,--assuming that every member of the Family of Nations will surely obey the rule of morality,--that it will “shun fellowship with the wicked,”--that it will not “enter the service of barbarians,”--that it will avoid what is “unbecoming,” and do that only which is “pious, safe, and glorious,”--and that, above all things, it will not enter into alliance to “help the ungodly,”--assuming these things, every such member must reject with indignation a new pretension whose declared principle of association is so intrinsically wicked. Here there can be no question. The case is plain; nor is any language of contumely or scorn too strong to express the irrepressible repugnance to such a pretension, which, like vice, “to be hated needs but to be seen.” Surely there can be no Christian power which will not rouse to expose it, crying, with irresistible voice,-- No _new_ sanction of Slavery! No _new_ quickening of Slavery in its active and aggressive barbarism! No _new_ encouragement to “filibusters” engendered by Slavery! No _new_ creation of _Slave Territory_! No _new_ creation of a _Slave Navy_! _No new Slave Nation!_ No installation of Slavery as a _new_ Civilization! But all this litany will fail, if recognition succeeds,--from which, good Lord, deliver us! Nor will this be the end. * * * * * Slavery, through the _new_ power, will take its place in the Parliament of mankind, with the immunities of an independent nation, ready always to uphold and advance itself, and organized as an unrelenting Propaganda of the new faith. A power having its inspiration in such a Barbarism must be essentially barbarous; founded on the asserted right to whip women and sell children, it must assume a character of disgusting hardihood; and openly professing determination to revolutionize the public opinion of the world, it must be in open schism with Civilization itself, so that all its influences will be wild, savage, brutal, and all its offspring kindred in character. “Pards gender pards; from tigers tigers spring; No doves are hatched beneath a vulture’s wing.”[137]