26/53 31 et seq.] [Footnote 2: Meade, _Sermons of Thomas Bacon_, pp. 116 _et seq._] [Footnote 3: _Ibid._, p. 118.] With almost equal zeal did Bishops Williams and Butler plead the same cause.[1] They deplored the fact that because of their dark skins Negro slaves were treated as a species different from the rest of mankind. Denouncing the more cruel treatment of slaves as cattle, unfit for mental and moral improvement, these churchmen asserted that the highest property possible to be acquired in servants could not cancel the obligation to take care of the religious instruction of those who "despicable as they are in the eyes of man are nevertheless the creatures of God."[2] [Footnote 1: _Special Report of the U.S.Com. |