Note 45 — THE BARBARISM OF SLAVERY.

“Wer dem Arbeiter seinen Lohn nicht gibt, der ist ein Bluthund.” (Cap. xxxv. 27.) Our less energetic version pictures the same enormity: “The bread of the needy is their life: he that defraudeth him thereof is a man of blood.” (Ecclesiasticus, xxxiv. 21.) The prophet Jeremiah unites in this judgment: “Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbor’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work.” Chap. xxii. 13.