[My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass]@TWC D-Link bookMy Bondage and My Freedom CHAPTER XXV 126/171
Let it be thundered around the world, that, in tyrant-killing, king hating, people-loving, democratic, Christian America, the seats of justice are filled with judges, who hold their office under an open and palpable _bribe_, and are bound, in deciding in the case of a man's liberty, _to hear only his accusers!_ In glaring violation of justice, in shameless disregard of the forms of administering law, in cunning arrangement to entrap the defenseless, and in diabolical intent, this fugitive slave law stands alone in the annals of tyrannical legislation.
I doubt if there be another nation on the globe having the brass and the baseness to put such a law on the statute-book.
If any man in this assembly thinks differently from me in this matter, and feels able to disprove my statements, I will gladly confront him at any suitable time and place he may select. THE SLAVERY PARTY.
Extract from a Speech Delivered before the A.A.
S. Society, in New York, May, 1853. Sir, it is evident that there is in this country a purely slavery party--a party which exists for no other earthly purpose but to promote the interests of slavery.
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