Editing Reference:On Slavery

'''''On Slavery''''' is a book by [[L. Cheves McCord]] which sought to defend [[Slavery in the Confederate States of America|slavery]] in the [[Confederacy]] not only morally, as past writers have done, but economically.

== Chapter 1: On Rights ==
...In ''The Law'', [[Frédéric Bastiat|Bastiat]] says that Nature or God bestowed Life upon Man and granted him faculties to appropriate and assimilate the elements into which God thrust him (Man). From Life, he says, springs the "right" to existence; from faculties, the "right" to liberty; from assimilation, the "right" to property.<ref>Bastiat, ''The Law'', pp. 1-2.</ref> [[Thomas Cooper|Cooper]] is once again vindicated when he wrote that all laws of nature are mere useful systems of writers.<ref>Cooper, ''Lecture on the Elements of Political Economy'', pp. 53-54.</ref>

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