Chapter XVIII

THE MORAL RELATIONS OF PERSONS HOLDING THE "PER SE"
DOCTRINE ON THE SUBJECT OF SLAVERY, TO THE PURCHASE
AND CONSUMPTION OF SLAVE LABOR PRODUCTS.

Moral relations of Slavery; Relations of the
consumer of Slave labor products to the system;
Grand error of all Anti-Slavery effort: Law of
_particeps criminis_; Daniel O'Connell; _Malum in
se_ doctrine; Inconsistency of those who hold it;
English Emancipationists; Their commercial
argument; Differences between the position of Great
Britain and the United States; Preaching versus
practice by Abolitionists; Cause of their want of
influence over the Slaveholder; Necessity of
examining the question; Each man to be judged by
his own standard; Classification of opinions in the
United States, in regard to the morality of
Slavery; Three Views; A case in illustration;
Apology of _per se_ men for using Slave grown
products insufficient; Law relating to "confusion
of goods;" _per se_ men _participes criminis_ with
Slaveholder; Taking Slave grown products under
_protest_ absurd; World's Christian Evangelical
Alliance; Amount of Slave labor Cotton in England
at that moment; Pharisaical conduct; The Scotchman
taking his wife under protest; Anecdote; American
Cotton more acceptable to Englishmen than
Republican principles; Secret of England's policy
toward American Slavery; The case of robbery again
cited, and the English Satirized; A contrast;
Causes of the want of moral power of Abolitionists;
Slaveholder no cause to cringe; Other results;
Effect of the adoption of the _per se_ doctrine by
ecclesiastical bodies; Slaves thus left in all
their moral destitution; Inconsistency of _per se_
men denouncing others; What the Bible says of
similar conduct. 203

Conclusion. 215