"Liberty." . ed inthe land of their birth, had not been lost upon them; but that theirkindly affections had been nurtured into strength, and that they hadranged themselves on the side of the oppessed slave. (Cheers.)—Speech in Glasgow, Scotland, Sept. 1836. WILLIAM BEST. It is a matter of pride for me to recollect, that while economists andpoliticians were recommending to the Legislature the protection of thistraffic, and senators were framing laws for its promotion, and declaringit a benefit to the country,—the judges of the land, above the age mwhich they lived, standing upon the high ground
"Liberty." . ed inthe land of their birth, had not been lost upon them; but that theirkindly affections had been nurtured into strength, and that they hadranged themselves on the side of the oppessed slave. (Cheers.)—Speech in Glasgow, Scotland, Sept. 1836. WILLIAM BEST. It is a matter of pride for me to recollect, that while economists andpoliticians were recommending to the Legislature the protection of thistraffic, and senators were framing laws for its promotion, and declaringit a benefit to the country,—the judges of the land, above the age mwhich they lived, standing upon the high ground of natural right, anddisdaining to bend to the lower doctrine of expediency, declared thatslavery was inconsistent with the genius of the English Constitution,and that human beings could not be the subject matter of a lawyer, I speak of that early determination, when a differentdoctrine was prevailing in the senate, with a considerable degree ofprofessional pride. GREAT Act o/3 and 4 William IV, chapter Ixxiii, § 12. Be it enacted, that all and every of the persons, who, on the first dayof August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, shall be holdenin slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall, upon, andfrom and after the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred andthirty-four, become and be to all intents and purposes, free anddischarged of, and from all manner of slavery, and shall be absolutelyand for ever manumitted ; and that the children thereafter to be bomto any such persons, and the offspring of such children, shall in likemanner be free from their birth; and that from and after the first dayof Jiugust, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, SLAVERYshall be, and is hereby utterly and for ever ABOLISHED and declaredunlawfiU throughout the British colonies, plantations, and possessionsabroad. BLACKSTONE SHARP THOMAS CLARKSON. 89 WILLIAM BLACKSTONE. Those rights which God and nature have establis
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