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What then becomes of slavery a system of arrangements, in which one man treats his fellow, not as another self, but as a thing a chattel an article of merchandize, which is not to be consulted in any disposition which may be made of it; a system which is built on the annihilation of the attributes of our common nature in which man doth to others, what he would sooner die than have done to himself?
She offers to be my wife, offers herself to me. ‘I love you madly,’ she says, ‘even if you don’t love me, never mind. Be my husband. Don’t be afraid. I won’t hamper you in any way. I will be your chattel. I will be the carpet under your feet. I want to love you for ever.
To secure a loan is an evidence of confidence in his business ability, and an evidence of the appreciation of his character. It is a flattering compliment, and promising relief to a condition that seems hopeless, he permits the yoke of bondage to be fastened upon him. The usurer's slave is cheaper than the chattel. It requires less wealth to secure an equal amount of service.
So long as labor is a chattel to be bought and sold, so long, like other commodities, it follows the condition of supply and demand.
Our rich will do anything for the poor except to get off their backs. The negro has a master in sickness and health. The wage slave is honored with the privilege of slavery only so long as he can work ten hours a day. He is a pauper when he can toil no more. "Your Abolitionist has fixed his eye on Chattel Slavery in the South. It involves but three million five-hundred thousand negroes.
This fully explains what is the nature of a slave, and what are his capacities; for that being who by nature is nothing of himself, but totally another's, and is a man, is a slave by nature; and that man who is the property of another, is his mere chattel, though he continues a man; but a chattel is an instrument for use, separate from the body.
Why, she ogles me with her gooseberry eyes already, and treats me as a chattel of her own." "Hush, hush, Peregrine! I cannot have you talk thus. If your father had such designs, it would be unworthy of us to favour you in crossing them." "Nay, madam, he hath never expressed them as yet.
I called at the bank and they said he was A No. 1, and good for anything he buys. Well, I got a report from Dun, and here it is: L. Loeby, LaGro; age 35; married; been in business two years; fairly temperate and fairly attentive to business; character and business capacity moderate; it is said doubtful as to honesty; means in business, about $1,000; no real estate; on the $1,000 above listed as his means in business the bank here holds a chattel mortgage of $600; he has a large family, and of late he has not been paying his bills as they fall due.
George B. Cheever, the dreamer, in 1830, woke up the stupid consciences of the fuddled men and women; he wrote out his dream and published it, "Deacon Giles' Distillery," and went to jail for it, but even he never dreamed of the greatness of the temperance reform that has followed. The overthrow of chattel slavery is complete and the human rights of the inferior peoples are recognized.
It is an old truth, that responsibility increases with capacity; but those same laws which make the slave a "chattel," require of him more than of men. The same law which makes him a thing incapable of obligation, loads him with obligations superhuman while sinking him below the level of a brute in dispensing its benefits, he lays upon him burdens which would break down an angel.
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