To confound or identify men and cattle must be to _lie_ most wantonly, impudently, and maliciously.

And must we prove, that Jesus Christ is not in favor of palpable, monstrous falsehood?
[Footnote A: Stroud's Slave Laws, p.

23.] Is Jesus Christ in favor of American slavery?
How can a system, built upon a stout and impudent denial of self-evident truth--a system of treating men like cattle--operate?
Thomas Jefferson shall answer.

Hear him.[B] "The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other.

The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to his worst passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, can not but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.