Slaybby of tlie coloured race was for the first time in
the modern world abolished in 1751, under the inspiration
of a sincere and fervent Christianity, but the abolition
was only local. Tho powerful galo of liberty which
brought the War of Independence led all the Northern
States of America to abolish it at a later day ; the Con-
federation did not the less allow it to continue in States
which thought themselves obliged to preserve it. It was
then the general feeling that it would disappear of itself
by the act of the States which maintained it, and specially
that it would not extend. The opposite took place. The
hour came when the South, having always made its par-
ticular interests depend on the continuance of slavery,
saw itself placed in the alternative, either to endure mo-
mentarily great losses by letting the hateful institution
fall, or to induce the North to aid in consolidating and
extending it. For slavery, its partisans are well aware,
cannot live alongside a country that is free and decided
to do nothing that resembles any alliance with the evil.
92 LIFB OF THEODOBB PARKER.
