correspond with that character. To place these truths in the
clearest light of demonstration, and beyond the reach of
contradiction, the subscribers proceed, in the order of these
averments, to adduce the facts and the arguments by which they will
be maintained."

The report then proceeds, in reply to the reasoning of the majority of
the committee, to maintain that "the principle of republican popular
representation is that the terms of representative and constituent are
correlative;" that "democracy admits no representation of property;"
that "the slave representation is repugnant to the self-evident truths
proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence." The truths in that
Declaration the report illustrates from history, from Scripture, and
from the teachings of Jesus Christ; who was aware that wars, and their
attendant, slavery, would continue among men, and that the destiny of
his Gospel itself was often to be indebted for its progressive
advancement to war.

"'I came not,' said he, 'to send peace upon earth, but a sword;'
meaning, not that this was the object of his mission, but that, in
the purposes of the Divine nature, war itself should be made
instrumental to promote the final consummation of universal peace.
Slavery has not ceased upon the earth; but the impression upon the
human heart and mind that slavery is a wrong,--a crime against the
laws of nature and of nature's God,--has been deepening and
widening, till it may now be pronounced universal upon every soul
in Christendom not warped by personal interest, or tainted with
disbelief in Christianity. The owner of ten slaves believes that
slavery is not an evil. The owner of a hundred believes it a
blessing. The philosophical infidel has no faith in Hebrew
prophecies, or in the Gospel of Jesus. He says in his heart, though
he will not tell you to your face, that the proclamation of the
natural equality of mankind, in the Declaration of Independence, is
untrue; that the African race are physically, morally, and
intellectually, _inferior_ to the white European man; that they are
not of one blood, nor descendants of the same stock; that the
African is born to be a slave, and the white man to be his master.
The worshipper of mammon and the philosophical atheist hold no
communion with the signers of the declaration that all men are
created equal, and endowe