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1Author:  Wallace, GeorgeRequires cookie*
 Title:  From the United States chronicle, Thursday, February 19, 1784.  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: IN this Page last Week a clear Consutation of the original Claim to the Right of Slavery was given, by that Ornament of his Profession Judge BLACKSTONE,—the Subject is now concluded with the Sentiments of that ingenious Lawyer and excellent Writer GEORGE WALLIS as published in his « System of the Laws of Sreeland:» — Speaking of the Negroes that are purchased from their Princes, who pretend to have a Right to dispose of them, and that they are like other Commodities, transported by the Merchants, who have bought them, into America, in Order to be exposed to Sale, he says:—«If this Trade admits of a rational or a moral Justification, every Crime, even the most atrocious, may be justified. Government was instituted for the Good of Mankind; Kings, Princes, Governors, are not Proprietors of those who are subject to their Authority; they have not a Right to make them miserable. On the contrary, their Authority is rested in them, that they may, by the just, Exercise of it, promote the Happiness of their People. Of course they have not a Right to dispose of their Liberty, and to sell them for Slaves.
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