"It is the curse of Kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humors for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life, And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humor than advised respect." Again:-- "Heaven will one day free us from this slavery." Again:-- "Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!-- Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets; Some to the common pulpits, and cry out, Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement" COWPER says:-- "Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free. They touch our country and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your Empire, that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too!" MILTON asks:-- "Where is the beauty to see, Like the sun-brilliant brow of a nation when free?" Again, he says:-- "If our fathers promised for themselves, to make themselves slaves, they could make no such promise for us." Again:-- "Since, therefore, the law is chiefly right reason, if we are bound to obey a magistrate as a minister of God, by the very same reason and the very same law, we ought to resist a tyrant, and minister of the devil." DR. JOHNSON says:-- "No man is by nature the property of another. The rights of nature must be some way forfeited before they can justly be taken away." DR. PRICE says:-- "If you have a right to make another man a slave, he has a right to make you a slave." BLACKSTONE says:-- "If neither captivity nor contract can, by the plain law of nature and reason, reduce the parent to a state of slavery, much less can they reduce the offspring." Again, he says:-- "The primary aim of society is to protect individuals in the enjoyment of those absolute rights which were vested in them by the immutable laws of nature. Hence it follows that the first and primary end of human laws is to maintain those absolute rights of individuals." Again:-- "If any human law shall allow or require us to commit crime, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and divine." COKE says:-- "What the Parliament doth, shall be holden for naught, whenever it shall enact that which is contrary to the rights of nature." HAMPDEN says:-- "The essence of all law is justice. What is not justice is not law; and what is not law, ought not to be obeyed." HARRINGTON says:-- "All men naturally, are equal; for though nature with a noble variety has made different features and lineaments of men, yet as to freedom, she has made every one alike, and given them the same desires." FORTESCUE says:--