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I have been arraigned here as attempting to menace this Conven tion by some authority of the Commanding General. I repel all such insinuations as false and groundless, but I repeat, that in my Opinion, gentlemen, members of this' Convention cannot stand up here and argue in favor of slavery in any form, without committing moral perjury. That is what I said, and to that I shall adhere. (applause) Mr. President, the gentleman from the Fifth District [mr Abell] has seen fit to make a long argument to overthrow my asser tion that slavery does not exist in the State of Louisiana. I say that assertion is literally true, that there is not a slave in the State of Louisiana to-day. There is no slavery, and can be none without the presence of physical power to enforce the'obedience of the slave to his master. That is an indispensable element of slavery, with out which it cannot exist. I ask the gentleman, where is the force today to compel the labor of the slave in this State Where 'is the auction-block? Where is the lash? Where is the power of the master to whip his slave and to enforce his will? The auction block has disappeared in the light of the new civilization that has dawned upon us the slave marts, where human beings were crowded together like cattle, thank God! Is no more among us and the lash has been abolished - first by the great law' of necessity, and secondly by the proclamation of military power.
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I have been arraigned here as attempting to menace this Conven tion by some authority of the Commanding General. I repel all such insinuations as false and groundless, but I repeat, that in my Opinion, gentlemen, members of this' Convention cannot stand up here and argue in favor of slavery in any form, without committing moral perjury. That is what I said, and to that I shall adhere. (applause) Mr. President, the gentleman from the Fifth District [mr Abell] has seen fit to make a long argument to overthrow my asser tion that slavery does not exist in the State of Louisiana. I say that assertion is literally true, that there is not a slave in the State of Louisiana to-day. There is no slavery, and can be none without the presence of physical power to enforce the'obedience of the slave to his master. That is an indispensable element of slavery, with out which it cannot exist. I ask the gentleman, where is the force today to compel the labor of the slave in this State Where 'is the auction-block? Where is the lash? Where is the power of the master to whip his slave and to enforce his will? The auction block has disappeared in the light of the new civilization that has dawned upon us the slave marts, where human beings were crowded together like cattle, thank God! Is no more among us and the lash has been abolished - first by the great law' of necessity, and secondly by the proclamation of military power.
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