"Nature and Laws would be in an ill case, if Slavery should find what to say for itself,
and Liberty be mute; and if tyrants should find men to plead for them, and they that can
waste and vanquish tyrants, should not be able to find advocates."

MILTON.

IN FIVE VOLUMES

VOL. I.

NEW EDITION

BOSTON
HOUGIITON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street
Che Rivergide Press, Cambridge

1884