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Excerpt from The Patriarchal Institution: As Described by Members of Its Own Family "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we have removed their only Jinn basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?" - Thomas Jefferson. "I have no hope that the stream of general liberty will for ever flow unpolluted through the mire of partial bondage." "That the dangerous consequences of this system of bond age have not as yet been felt, does not prove that they never will be. To me, nothing, for which I have not the evidence of my senses, is more clear than that it will one day destroy that reverence for liberty, which is the vital principle of a Republic." - William Pinkney, of Maryland, in 1789. "Is it not amazing, that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined with precision, in a country above all others fond of liberty, that in such an age, and in such a country, we find men, professing a religion the most humane and gentle, adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity, as it is inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive to liberty? I could say many things on this subject, a serious view of which gives a gloomy prospect for future times." - Letter of Patrick Henry, of Virginia. "Slavery is inconsistent with the genius of republicanism, and has a tendency to destroy those principles on which it is supported; as it lessens the sense of the equal rights of mankind, and habituates us to tyranny and oppression." Luther Martin, of Maryland, in 1787. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.