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mbery. They had nu credit in a court, where they were never examined but by torture. And from the feelings of society, which were all afpainst them, they Had no mitigation of their lot. In wanton cruelty tbey were beat and buH'ctcd ; in playful frolic they were butchered; and in the noblest and most heroic states it was an e.veninij s pastime fiir the free youth l4i thin Iheir ninnbcm by a general massacre. To what pas« they were reduced, you have only to take up any clas^c of Greece or Rome, in order to be informed. And you may have some notion of it when 1 tell you, that the justest man of Rome, Cato the Censor, was wont, when hts faithful slaves had grown feeble tu his bouse, to turn them forth to starve. ed by WTl Ikih CURf^K A^ TO BODILY LABOUH. [iXt. or else to let them atanc outright uodcr hU roof. In Atlienn, I am aware, the rigour of th rondttioii w^ «;omew1iat soflen^i) by Uie iJii>aDt of that polished city : but throughout those partft where the ApoMolic Churche* were planted by Paul, they wore the most pitiabk form of hii QJty^ The Ncgro-ftlave, who ig held to bis lab all the day long with the lai^h^ uDd aweateth der the flmitingft of the tropical sun, from the of llie Hun to tfie ^lin^ dnwn of tlie xame, tlioii^ be have ua nBcrcd law of wedlock, and becal^ able like an ammal* or like a vegetable traospliAi- ed from eoil to soil, that mmu&ed creature, with* out country', without wife, or certain homt, ii highly advanced above the condition of thoee whom Paul so o(i instructeth under theif pTO[>er oarae pf SoiiXoi, though in onr version it is softened intolbe appellation of servauts^ For the Ne^i^ is vrdl fed and lodged, and proteeted by law, and allow- ed to accumulate property, and hath a portioocf time to call hifi own, and now is be^itiniDg to be instructed in tla* heavenly hopes of a Cbristiaa, and he hath steady fnenda on both sides of tlie broad main, who have lifted up their bands tu God, that they will not tobI day nor ni^t till be shall be free ; but these the Apostle dcalcth withd were the most sorrowful of men, albeit Vmaf under the bright Kun of the classic Jige, whnae chief misery W3S to be endowed with human fonos* for h^d ihey been blessed with bnital shape aoil nature^ they had certainly obtained the ptty of their masters, into whose boi^om tl»e boasted cla^ sic genius poured the spirit not of liberty, but of despotism, for true self-coniroiled liberty is ike daughter of the Gospel 1 say llwsc wretched V.I TIIF, CITRFE AS TO BODILT LABOUR.