And all this by mutual understanding and voluntary arrangement.

And all this according to the Golden Rule.
What then becomes of _slavery_--a system of arrangements, in which one man treats his fellow, not as another self, but as a thing--a chattel--an article of merchandize, which is not to be consulted in any disposition which may be made of it;--a system which is built on the annihilation of the attributes of our common nature--in which man doth to others, what he would sooner die than have done to himself?
The Golden Rule and slavery are mutually subversive of each other.

If one stands, the other must fall.

The one strikes at the very root of the other.

The Golden Rule aims at the abolition of THE RELATION ITSELF, in which slavery consists.