The-papacy-its-history-dogmas-genius-and-prospects-wylie

—APPENDIX. 555—liis ni-hts as a citizen, and his rights as a man. Tlie fii-st set ofattend him all over the globe.rio-hts are limited to the country of ^vhich he is a member ; tlie secondThe government of which he is a subjectis bound to maintain him in the exercise of the one class of rights.It is the duty of the consociated governments of the earth to maintainhim in the possession of his rights as a member of the humanfamily, and Avhich are the rights of the Roman, the African, theIndian, as well as of the Briton. Should one government wrongfullydeny its subjects, not their rights as citizens, but their rightsas men,—not those which they possess in contradistinction to thesubjects of other states, but those which they possess incontradistinctionto the beasts below them, as made in the image of God,then the other governments may lawfully interfere and put downthe wrong. Should the majority of these governments prove neglectfulof their duty, the task would devolve on the strongestgovernment. On this principle did the governments of AvestemEurope combine to put down the slave-trade. They said to theKing of Dahomey, We do not meddle with the political governmentof your kingdom ; but you deny to your subjects their rightsas human beings. You sell them like cattle to the slave-master.We forbid the barbarity. And so the slave-trade was putdown. But if there are two rights which are inseparable to thehuman being,— which cannot possibly be disjoined from reason andresponsibility,—the}- are a/;r