with Slaveholders--Taking Slave grown
products under _protest_ absurd--World's Christian
Evangelical Alliance--Amount of Slave labor Cotton
in England at that moment--Pharisaical
conduct--The Scotchman taking his wife under
protest--Anecdote--American Cotton more acceptable
to Englishmen than Republican principles--Secret
of England's policy toward American Slavery--The
case of robbery again cited, and the English
Satirized--A contrast--Causes of the want of moral
power of Abolitionists--Slaveholders no cause to
cringe--Other results--Effect of the adoption of
the _per se_ doctrine by ecclesiastical
bodies--Slaves thus left in all their moral
destitution--Inconsistency of _per se_ men
denouncing others--What the Bible says of similar
conduct.

HAVING noticed the political and economical relations of slavery, it may
be expected that we shall say something of its moral relations. In
attempting this, we choose not to traverse that interminable labyrinth,
without a thread, which includes the moral character of the system, as
it respects the relation between the master and the slave. The only
aspect in which we care to consider it, is in the moral relations which
the consumers of slave labor products sustain to slavery: and even on
this, we shall offer no opinion, our aim being only to promote inquiry.

This view of the question is not an unimportant one. It includes the
germ of the grand error in nearly all anti-slavery effort; and to which,
chiefly, is to be attributed its want of moral power over the conscience
of the slaveholder. The abolition movement, was designed to create a
public sentiment, in the United States, that should be equally as potent
in forcing emancipation, as was the public opinion of Great Britain. But
why have not the Americans been as successful as the English? This is an
inquiry of great importance. When the Anti-Slavery Convention, which
met, December 6, 1833, in Philadelphia, declared, as a part of its
creed: "That there is no difference in principle, between the African
slave trade, and American slavery," it meant to be understood as
teaching, that the person who purchased slaves imported from Africa, or
who held their offspring as slaves, was _particeps criminis_--partaker
in the crime--with the slave trader, on the principle that he