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between a right to bricks and mortar, and a right to the flesh of man--a right to torture his body and to degrade his mind at your good will and pleasure? There is this difference,--the right to the house originates in law, and is reconcilable to justice; the claim (for I will not call it a right) to the man, originated in robbery, and is an outrage upon every principle of justice, and every tenet of religion.'--_Speech of Fowell Buxton in the British Parliament._ SECTION IV. THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY INCREASES THE VALUE OF SLAVES. I come now to my fourth charge,--which, although not more serious or consequential than any of the foregoing, may possibly create more surprise,--namely, that the Society _increases the value of slaves, and adds strength and security to the system of slavery_. It is the discovery of this fact that is so wonderfully, and to many superficial observers so inexplicably, increasing the popularity of the Society at the south. It would require more pages of this work than its necessarily contracted limits permit, to sum up minutely the evidence on this point, and to give those illustrations which might serve more clearly to establish its validity. The most common, as it is the most potent, argument used by colonization agents among slave owners, to secure their patronage, is,--'The successful prosecution of our scheme will remove the chief source of danger to yourselves, and enable you to hold your property in greater security: the presence of free persons of color among your slaves is eminently calculated to make them insubordinate, and to procure their violent emancipation.' This argument, I say, is introduced into every conversation, and every public address, and every essay; and whoever carefully consults the numbers of the African Repository, through seven volumes, will find it repeated in almost every appeal to the south. I choose to consider the testimony of southern men, in regard to the invigorating effects of the colonization enterprise upon the system of slavery, conclusive. Here is a very small portion of it: more may be found under the sixth section of this work. 'The object of the Colonization Society commends itself to every class of society. The landed proprietor may ENHANCE THE VALUE OF HIS PROPERTY by assisting the enterprise.'--[African Repository, vol. i. p. 67.] 'But is it not certain, that should the people of the Southern
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