The very act was a declaration of war upon human man nature.

What less can be made of the process of turning men to cattle?
It is rank absurdity--it is the height of madness, to propose to employ _him_ to train, for the places of freemen, those whom he has wantonly robbed of every right--whom he has stolen from themselves.

Sooner place Burke, who used to murder for the sake of selling bodies to the dissector, at the head of a hospital.

Why, what have our slaveholders been about these two hundred years?
Have they not been constantly and earnestly engaged in the work of education?
-- training up their human cattle?
And how?
Thomas Jefferson shall answer.

"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." Is this the way to fit the unprepared for the duties and privileges of American citizens?
Will the evils of the dreadful process be diminished by adding to it length?
What, in 1818, was the unanimous testimony of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church?
Why, after describing a variety of influences growing out of slavery, most fatal to mental and moral improvement, the General Assembly assure us, that such "consequences are not imaginary, but connect themselves WITH THE VERY EXISTENCE of slavery.