IN order the better to understand the subject it is necessary here
to introduce a few plain definitions. Slavery has two
definitions--the direct and the indirect. The first of these is
that it is the total deprivation of human rights; the other that it
is the reducing of human beings to the condition of property, the
same as other goods, wares, merchandise and chattels. Either of
these definitions will answer for the purpose of argument, though
the latter is to be preferred, because it is the most familiar.
There are a variety of other ways in which mankind hold control
over each other, and sometimes unjustly and oppressively; but if
the persons controlled be not held as property, they are not
slaves. A Right is defined to be, the privilege or liberty of
being, doing, having or suffering something at our own pleasure and
discretion without the interference, interruption or hindrance of
others--and to this discretion neither the law of God, nor the
common law, nor any other just law, sets any other bounds than that
we so exercise our own rights as not to infringe the same rights in
other human beings. A Wrong is defined to be, any voluntary act
which disturbs, interrupts, hinders, or destroys the free exercise
of the rights of others--every such act being strictly forbidden by
the law of God, and every other just law. Right and Wrong are,
therefore, the everlasting moral and political opposites and
antagonists of each other.
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