With regard to cannibalism, I demand that the advocates of emancipation either adopt it as right and proper, or denounce it, as I do, as beneath the dignity of ordinary animal existence, and as the most disgusting prerogative of barbarism. Probably they will adopt it on the very antique authority of Zeno, Diogenes, Chrysippius, and the Stoics, who esteemed it perfectly reasonable for men to devour one another; or because, in China (and other countries) it is practiced, where, according to Herrera, one great market is supplied with human flesh alone, for the better sort of people; or because cannibalism was universal before the days of Orpheus. I almost fear lest the emancipationists, by adopting cannibalism as right, with such high authorities and precedents to support their position, may endeavor to palliate African cannibalism on the ground that it is not a monopoly, and claim exemption from the great verdict of modern civilization which denounces, as forfeited and condemned, this disgusting and leading custom of barbarism. But if the common sense of the Anglo-Saxon race did not almost universally denounce this hideous custom, I would bring Sextus Empiricus to show that the first laws ever enacted were to prevent men from devouring each other; and even this may be declared, by our sophistical emancipationists, to be one of the first violations of _natural right_. If the right of cannibalism is claimed, then will nature assert its wrong, and vindicate civilization. But if cannibalism is rejected by the emancipationists, then let us see to what dangers and degradation he would expose the now happy and contented slave. CANNIBALISM IN AFRICA. In the "UNIVERSAL VOCABULARY," which is compiled from the very highest authority (p. 218), we learn that the Jagas, of the kingdom of Congo, "take pleasure in _eating young women_!" And "a princess was so fond of her gallants, that she _ate them successively_!" "Their choicest food is _warm human blood_!" "The Jaga chieftain, Cassangi, used to have _a young woman killed every day for his table_!" "Five or six strong men will at once destroy and share the flesh of a captive." "The women are equally as ferocious as the men, _delighting to cleave the skull, and suck the warm brain of the slain_!" This is solemn history, though almost horribly incredible. From the same authority, and others, we learn that seven-eighths of Africa is at present either savage or barbarous. This is _the present condition of Africa_, by nearly the unanimous voice of enlightened travelers, and scientific explorers. According to Pritchard, "the Mumbas, a numerous and savage people who live at the east and northeast of Te-te, and at Chicorango, are cannibals." Dos Sanctas says, "They have in their principal town a slaughter-house, where they butcher men every day." We learn from Pritchard, that "the Zimbas, or Mazimbas, are a man-eating tribe near Senna." Also, that "the Mulua tribe slaughter fifteen or twenty men every day."