BEATTIE says:-- "Slavery is inconsistent with the dearest and most essential rights of man's nature; it is detrimental to virtue and industry; it hardens the heart to those tender sympathies which form the most lovely part of human character; it involves the innocent in hopeless misery, in order to procure wealth and pleasure for the authors of that misery; it seeks to degrade into brutes beings whom the Lord of Heaven and Earth endowed with rational souls, and created for immortality; in short, it is utterly repugnant to every principle of reason, religion, humanity, and conscience. It is impossible for a considerate and unprejudiced mind, to think of slavery without horror." MILLER says:-- "The human mind revolts at a serious discussion of the subject of slavery. Every individual, whatever be his country or complexion, is entitled to freedom." MACKNIGHT says:-- "Men-stealers are inserted among the daring criminals against whom the law of God directed its awful curses. These were persons who kidnapped men to sell them for slaves; and this practice seems inseparable from the other iniquities and oppressions of slavery; nor can a slave dealer easily keep free from this criminality, if indeed the receiver is as bad as the thief." THE VOICE OF FRANCE. LAFAYETTE says:-- "I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery." Again, while in the prison of Magdeburg, he says:-- "I know not what disposition has been made of my plantation at Cayenne; but I hope Madame de Lafayette will take care that the negroes who cultivate it shall preserve their liberty." O. LAFAYETTE, grandson of General Lafayette, in a letter under date of April 26th, 1851, says:-- "This great question of the Abolition of Negro Slavery, which has my entire sympathy, appears to me to have established its importance throughout the world. At the present time, the States of the Peninsula, if I do not deceive myself, are the only European powers who still continue to possess slaves; and America, while continuing to uphold slavery, feels daily, more and more how heavily it weighs upon her destinies." MONTESQUIEU asks:-- "What civil law can restrain a slave from running away, since he is not a member of society?" Again, he says:-- "Slavery is contrary to the fundamental principles of all societies." Again:-- "In democracies, where they are all upon an equality, slavery is contrary to the principles of the Constitution." Again:-- "Nothing puts one nearer the condition of a brute than always to see freemen and not be free." Again:--