membered with reverence, as long as bravery
is considered a virtue. He was a black man, by the name of John
Johnson. A twenty-four-pound shot struck him in the hip, and took
away all the lower part of his body. In this state, the poor
brave fellow lay on the deck, and several times exclaimed to his
shipmates: '_Fire away, my boys; no haul a color down._' The
other was also a black man, by the name of John Davis, and was
struck in much the same way. He fell near me, and several times
requested to be thrown overboard, saying he was only in the way
of others.

"When America has such tars, she has little to fear from the
tyrants of the ocean."[9]

After praise of such a nature and from such a source, eulogy is
superfluous.

FOOTNOTES:

[5] Livermore, pp. 159, 160.

[6] Mackenzie's Life of Perry, vol. i. pp. 165, 166.

[7] Mackenzie's Life of Perry, vol. i. pp. 186, 187.

[8] Analectic Magazine, vol. iii. p. 255.

[9] Niles's Weekly Register, Saturday, Feb. 26, 1814.

PART 5.

_ANTI-SLAVERY AGITATION._

CHAPTER IV.

RETROSPECTION AND REFLECTION.

1825-1850.

THE SECURITY OF THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY AT THE SOUTH.--THE
RIGHT TO HOLD SLAVES QUESTIONED.--RAPID INCREASE OF THE SLAVE
POPULATION.--ANTI-SLAVERY SPEECHES IN THE LEGISLATURE OF
VIRGINIA.--THE QUAKERS OF MARYLAND AND DELAWARE EMANCIPATE THEIR
SLAVES.--THE EVIL EFFECT OF SLAVERY UPON SOCIETY.--THE CONSCIENCE
AND HEART OF THE SOUTH DID NOT RESPOND TO THE VOICE OF REASON OR
DICTATES OF HUMANITY.

An awful silence succeeded the stormy struggle that ended in the
violation of the ordinance of 1787. It was now time for reflection.
The Southern statesmen had proven themselves the masters of the
situation. The institution of slavery was secured to them, with many
collateral political advantages. And, in addition to this, they had
secured the inoculation of the free territory beyond the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers with the virus of Negro-slavery.

If the mother-country had forced slavery upon her colonial
dependencies in North America, and if it were difficult and
inconvenient to part with slave-labor, who were now responsible for
the extension of the slave area? Southern men, of course. What
principle or human law was strong enough to support an institution of
such cruel proportions? The old law of European pagans born of bloody
and destroying wars? N