Indeed, he proceeded to precipitate what he knew was to come.
"Sir, England herself," he assented gravely, "is the oldest of slavers.

The Saxons, of whom we speak as the fathers of freedom, were the worst slave masters in the world--they sold their very kin into slavery at times." The Honorable William Jones was impatient of interruption.

"Comin' to our own side of the sea, gentlemen, what do we find?
New England foremost in the slave trade! New York, ownin' onct more slaves than Virginny ever did! Georgia was fo'ced to take on slave labor, although she had tried to do without it.

_Every_ race, _every_ nation, sirs, has accepted the theory of slave labor.

What says Mr.