. Golden jubilee of the Republican Party; the celebration in Philadelphia, June 17, 18 and 19, 1906. he decision of the Court in the case of vSomerset (a negro slave) v. Stewart,in which he declared: The power of a master over hisslave has been extremely different indifferent countries. The state of slav-ery is of such a nature that it is inca-pable of being introduced, on anyreasons moral or political but onlypositive law, which preserves theforce long after the reasons, occasion,and tinie itself from whence it wascreated, is erased from memory. It is so odious that nothing can be suf-fered t
. Golden jubilee of the Republican Party; the celebration in Philadelphia, June 17, 18 and 19, 1906. he decision of the Court in the case of vSomerset (a negro slave) v. Stewart,in which he declared: The power of a master over hisslave has been extremely different indifferent countries. The state of slav-ery is of such a nature that it is inca-pable of being introduced, on anyreasons moral or political but onlypositive law, which preserves theforce long after the reasons, occasion,and tinie itself from whence it wascreated, is erased from memory. It is so odious that nothing can be suf-fered to support it but positive inconveniences, therefore,may follow from a decision, I cannotsay, this case is allowed or approved by the law of England,and therefore the Black must be discharged. The ancestry of the Republican Party can be traced back inlineal descent from this decision of Lord Mansfield that slavescannot breathe in England, and that the moment they touch hersoil their shackles fall from them and they are Free. Through the labors of Wilberforce and Thompson and other 45. WILLIAM BARNES, OF THURLOW WEED 46 GOLDEN JUBILKE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. anti-slavery patriots English slavery was abolished in her WestIndia colonies by compensated emancipation. [ It is said that in the draft of the original Declaration of Inde-pendence there was a clause that specified the importation ofAfrican slaves to America by the consent and approval of KingGeorge III, as one of the grievances of the Colonists which causedtheir separation from Great Britain. Virginia was not allowedto prohibit the slave trade. The Fathers of the Republic, nearlyall, reprobated and condemned slavery and favored gradual eman-cipation. Jefferson said: I tremble for my country, when I reflectthat God is just,—that His Justice cannot sleep forever. This pohcy of the early founders of the Republic, for reasonswhich space will not peimit to be enumerated, was gradually aban-doned an
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