Excerpt from Review of Ellwood Fisher's Lecture on the North and the South Each slaveholder exercises in his own household and on his own farm, a jurisdiction nearly as absolute and ex tensive as that exercised in the middle ages of Eutone by a feudal baron on his own domains and over his own vast sals. He is in all matters that do not affect life itself the supreme legislator and judge over his own slaves. w what would be thought of the fairness of a comparison between the records of the court of the high judiciary of England in the days of William the Conqueror or Henry Beauclerk and the records of the king's courts now in England, with a View of ascertaining the compara tite amount OF crime AT these different periods. The mass of crimes were then punished in the baron's courts - mow they are all punished in the king's courts. So the mass OF crimes IN a slave state are pun ished IN the masters' courts - Lin a free State they are punished In the courts Of the Commonwealth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.