Wesley Corpus

But all the arguments which are produced therein, may be contained in a nut-shell. The writert asserts twenty times, “He that is taxed without * Thus translated by Pitt: “O check your wrath, my sons; the nations spare ; And save your country from the woes of war; Nor in her sacred breast, with rage abhorr'd, So fiercely plunge her own victorious sword ' "-EDIT. + Or writers. For I am informed by a correspondent in Bristol, that this letter was wrote by two Anabaptist Ministers, assisted by a gentleman and a tradesman of the Church of England. his own consent, that is, without being represented, is a slave.” I answer, No; I have no representative in Parlia ment; but I am taxed; yet I am no slave. Yea, nine in ten throughout England have no representative, no vote; yet they are no slaves; they enjoy both civil and religious liberty to the utmost extent. He replies, “But they may have votes if they will; they may purchase freeholds.” What! Can every man in England purchase a freehold? No, not one in an hundred. But, be that as it may, they have no vote now; yet they are no slaves, they are the freest men in the whole world. “Who then is a slave?” Look into America, and you may easily see. See that Negro, fainting under the load, bleeding under the lash ! He is a slave. And is there “no difference” between him and his master? Yes; the one is screaming, “Murder ! Slavery !” the other silently bleeds and dies ! “But wherein then consists the difference between liberty and slavery?” Herein: You and I, and the English in general, go where we will, and enjoy the fruit of our labours: This is liberty. The Negro does not: This is slavery. Is not then all this outcry about liberty and slavery mere rant, and playing upon words? This is a specimen of this writer's arguments.