White Slavery in the Barbary States: A Lecture Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, Feb, 17, 1847 (Classic Reprint)

It may also be called the worlds great charnelhouse, where are gathered coffins, dead mens bones, and all the uncleanness of the years that have fled. As we walk among its pictures, radiant with the inspiration of virtue and of freedom, we confess a new impulse to beneficent exertion. As we grope amidst the unsightly shapes that have been left without an epitaph, we may at least derive a fresh aversion to all their living representatives. In this mighty gallery are the stately images of the benefactors of mankind, --the poets who have sung the praises of virtue, the historians who have recorded its achievements, and the good men of all time, who, by word or deed, have striven for the welfare of others. Here are depicted those scenes in which the divinity of man has been made manifest in trial and danger. Here also are those grand incidents which have attended the establishment of the free institutions of the world, the signing of Magna Charta, with its priceless privileges of freedom, by a reluctant monarch, and of the Declaration of I ndependence, the annunciation of the inalienable rights of man, by the fathers of our republic. On the other hand, in this dreary charnel-house are tumbled in ignominious confusion all that now remains of the tyrants, the persecutors, and selfish men, under whom mankind have groaned. Here also are the extinct institutions or customs, which the earth, weary of their infamy and injustice, has refused to sustain, the Helotism of Sparta, the Serfdom of Christian Europe, and Algerine Slavery.
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