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Excerpt from Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society: With the Speeches Delivered at the Anniversary Meeting, Held in Chatham-Street Chapel, in the City of New-York, on the Sixth of May, 1834
When I speak of this horrible oppression, I speak, sir, not of individual cases of suffering. I speak of the entire system. I define it by its own bloody code. I open the pages of its statute book and no man who knows either men or history needs be told that the general practices of a people are not more equitable and merciful than their laws. Let the depths of this iniquity be fathomed by this measure, if we would learn its dimensions. By the laws which sustain slavery, millions of human beings are held as chattels. Yes, sir, they are driven along the streets of Washington, with less of liberty than cattle, in the sight of that proud capital, where the national ¿ag is ¿ying, and where so many fine things are said in favor of liberty. By those same laws, the slave is placed beyond the protection of law! He is shut out from the social charities of life. The tender est ties that twine around his heart are severed. A home and a family he may not claim. No nor even a Bible to teach him the sources of consolation.
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