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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1794 Excerpt: ...are not liable to be impressed for soldiers, and forced to cut one another's Christian throats, as in the wars of their own countries. If some of the religious mad bigots, who now tease us with their silly petitions, have, in a fit of blind zeal, freed their slaves, it was not generosity, it was not humanity, that moved them to the action; it was from the conscious burthen of a load of sins, and hope, from the supposed merits of so good a work, to be excused from damnation.--How grossly are they mistaken, in imagining jflaverv slavery to be disavowed by die Alcoran! Are not the two precepts, to quote no more, "Masters, treat your slaves with kindness--Slaves, serve your masters with cheerfulness and fidelity," clear proofs to the contrary? Nor can the plundering of infidels be in that sacred book forbidden; since it is well known from it, that God has given the world, and all that it contains, to his faithful Mussulmen, who are to enjoy it, of right, as fast as they can conquer it. Let us then hear no more of this detestable proposition, the manumission of Christian slaves, the adoption of which would, by depreciating our lands and houses, and thereby depriving so many good citizens of their properties, create universal discontent, and provoke insurrections, to the endangering of government, and producing general confusion, I have, therefore, no doubt that this wise council will prefer the comfort and happiness h 9 Pf os a whole nation of true believers, to the whim of a few Erika, and dismiss their petition." The result was, as Martin tells us, that the Divan came to this resolution: «« That the doctrine, that the plundering "and enslaving the Christians is unjust, w is at best problematical; but that it is "the interest ...

Works of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

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