The Greensborough patriot [April 13, 1860]

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< n r GREENSBOROUGH, 1ST. C, APRIL 13, I860.
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able i.ndomnation of their own
... iu pl.-dge doubtful passages
• > tbe <rortain damnation I
■††r [fm nr«» to reg-ud tbe
i .HI exposition afeithoi pyb-i .! or
■iiticel science* we will be apt to brio*!
,t „. •-*--«. I hotb into fhlse positions, and man* a-favorite
*-■" , dogma ;t mtdorn pojitiolan* would mil to the
! ground tor want of tins tiikuti of Divine
Sa.d Lord Brougham :
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I approbation. The coal and iron interests ot
>■* twenty- Pnunsvivama would certainly be- in a bad
'■" i*:„ | way, tor 1 Bad nothing in that book which
• . . > ;■ favor 11 require* n:e to ttx my constituents enor
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| moiisiy for the benefit ol PennsyivanssBS,
e.-peciaily since their Representatives so in-gioriuuely
hacked down from tbe Mpport of
my colleague for Speaker. And in particu-lar
would your pot homestead till stifle:, lor
tbe command is express, "Thou shalt not
steal." No, sir, every school-boy bus learn-ed,
from the numberless stories of monkish
s»i B. Vance, ofWorth Carolina, gSrZZ&ZBFf^JStiXZ
assign any other character to the Bible than
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OF
•• T>y kitu treaty, which the exec-rut ions of ages have
ileftiaad lustelycenaared. Great Britain was content
•ooi.uin M the Whole sito of Ram-lies and IVtenbeim.
»n sddiuosal share ol iLe accursed Airieau slave
trade."'
But though Great Britain was the author
andgreatenl parti ipator in this trade, we
mum i,r. suppose that Englishmen alone
reaped all it* profits. Tlie American eol.i.
ntcs come in for * share ol this doubtful
honor. American vessels, us we are told In
Walsh, himself an Abolitionists, in his Aj~
peu! Irotii the Judgments of Great
formed a < oneWerablc portlo
ON ma
SLAVERY QUESTION. •
i»rti! iathr Uouseof RrprcscDtatives.March 16,1860.
eing in Committee of the Whole, on the
1 niop, Mr. VANCE, of North Carolina,
lhat of a Divine guide to Heaven. The
lute Hugh Miller, whose melancholy death
scarcely startled the reading world HO much
as the boldness and originalty of his specu
lations in geology, has in fact adduced in
his last work one of the very strongest ar
guments 1 remember to have seen in sup
port of the truth ol Christianity, from the
. itvumstance, that the Bihle alone, of all
t tie known expositions of religion in tbe
world, did not pledge its disciples to any
theory whatever of either political or physi
cai science. But, nevertheless, when tbe
scriptural test is proffered the southern slave-holder,
he accepts it with the most unboun-ded
confidence. Every one at all familiar
with its pages knows, that for OCM single re
cognition in the Bible of man's dominion
over the inferior animals; the dominou of
man oW man, in the relation of master
;;nd servant, will bo recognised twent; times
at the least! This is oO well known that it
would oca waste of time to cite tbe various fa-miliarpanftaarna
What else could th* gentle-men
from Massachusetts [Mr. Burlingame]
i ■ re admit ted wheo he saiu that the North
at. Itis ii '. riv purpose, however.at tins . , m„s, havo an anti-altwery Constitution, an-
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i"'y r°"'e,''i
t .'ti-.,la.cr> Bil>le, ami and anti-slavery God ?"
>an
ble
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■;T Chairman, it isa favorite saying, and
all acceptation with conservative
the slavery <iueotion is to bo de-
.- iruitful only of evil, in thih 1
r ^ersince my first venture in politics,
«.euhcorred, and do Dpw ooacar. The
_ from the discussion of all dar, ger-
;citing upi(.-, as tar :is it is ptiSBi-j,
i cardinal maxim of that party to
[have tlua honor to belong. Dut~,so
: sabjeut continues to bo the great
rehadjowtug issue in American poli-tic-
disposition of which depends
Manimate destiny of the Republic, it
to nothing more than an abstract
i in regard to an unattaioiWe r".oci
agitated and disouassed so long
m spark of available vitality can be
• oulo u to aid the ambition of po'iti-
Bntiiiii,
of these "in-terloper^*'
who iniriiiged the rights of the
royal chartered company ; and all the
■is that
to
t.e
; • ii >ciisa *, ■ • ul |: c; o; slayer^ in the c,,,-,^,,^- be admitted that whicbevery m
• i «. iBCUssioo.ifeondneted • vlll) r^j.^ w.,ts utus! almit—that the" Bil
-, witn a •.;■.-. „otbe elucidation of truth j fclMj ,|ie Co»i->thaii- t-ilerate slavery-
.-. - r •* : • increase, but t'» allay agita-
• ^':'. retitor ■ pi ■•'.■ i to 1 be n •!••
.. , t B 'ter myself that lrsh;i!i I.- • il
. . . n\ thi n - ii ■ i upoi
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ul a mat.a
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As ma' w»s thus i.-ft free, by thin clear
■irawii'g • t ween the discovora-i
,. .. J . • • soek tor irulh in alt
... ■.:• . iperationa of nature:
. he material world -round
, . ;•,<>< iii neck out by the
<■•- I.I that form o! govern-i
t at class of social in.
. . . ; ' ed to promote bis bap
ro, to justify i>lavei;,
tl hi cau t is no: forbidden b\
• t - tolerated bj Dit i...
. .. -. .-.. tt ii ..-• best -iud in ■ † > ■
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. • uu belief that '.• .'.,•..- .•
I-. wrorij or moreremotelj b* .. \va
■ffixed to creation, has -■ sti ingcl} • r ier. •: | """j
tuiiipurarj anth"ritie« intorm
colonies participated in this trade to the full
extent of their ability to do so, .ilher offici-ally
or otherwise. Ot these vessels, by la-the
greater number, it indeed not every one
were tilted out in northern ports aid owned
by north, m Aniindab Sleeks. And all t' »-
time tlmtWis trade was going on, tnosi t
the enIonics, it not ail ol them, wen- protest
ing against its continuum-*' '■> lbs niotlon
country, North atid South; llassaehu^Ui
Bay and New Hampshire not oetsfcripping
Virgiuia in the earnestness and aim erity wl
their opposition. In fact, Virginia, after
having passed so many as twenty-three dif-ferent
acts intended to restrain the slave
trade, from 166:2 t" 177S t>i all of which ih<
royal assent was refused, ii.ilicnt. M her
treme opposition to it by insetting a elau
in her independent oonstituthin. d.claitt.-^
this refusal of the Crown to abolish this u-af
fie ono of her principal reasons for separating
from the mother country! Even Jamaica
sod several of the islands oi the West Indie*
made earnest out unvailing cffnts to effect
the same o'ject.
Now, if these things are true—ai.d tin--
Ml-e historj—W!MI IS lol'amet' r i ir'.i-u. ■
and fastening tit-on Aim lii-an -"i' ' is
whic*i you call a sin against ('•'■' N ■'
presont slaveh >ld is, :.<->st eertaii i.- I
never trsdBekt I m A'Viea • ut j-m
North did ihcj ne\cr .-et fill t • ll»i In
of miserable Afrienn. and seised iluir worn. •
ami chilor. n a-they rushed frantic fi
tiami-n. i-. • •
bamsi
men ;'
Ami i,
■ >t'ju-<:
mail in
and
leiu]
lion 'i t - •
Q elll,
.t
■ .■† never 1
in lb bodi<
,i:- exemjil iry I rel ill' '■ - ■• ere I
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onl • in l he brain if ii -
V . i L - i i ll 1: .-
• V . : now tl-
- 1 ' in • the CN|. l;i
a s; •
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. gun uix
d down
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now, under the control and nirection of their
Anglo Saxon mast3rs? And what would
they do without this control »nd direction F
CTpO'i the answer to these questions hang all
the law and testimony in the case. Can any
stutesman on **arth give a commensurate idea
ul the value of the single article of cotton to
the civilized wot Id ? lie ean give you the
statistics, showing how much is raided per
annum, how much is BMnoJhctured by each
nation, its value, and su<-h like commercial
it.-ins. He can tell you that the entire cot-
'iin crop produced by these slaves, in 1853,
was ono billion six hundred million pounds;
which, at ten cent- per pound, is worth $160,-
OO0.0UO. Ono billion one hundred and elev-en
mdlinn and odd pounds'of this are export-ed,
and furnish two thirds of the entire ex-port
'rade of the United States. The crop
of 1856 amounted to three million five hun-ch'
d thousand hales; and that, of 1859, thoogfa
not al! yet heard from, it is estimated will
resell a* least four million See hundred thou-sand'.
About seventeen per cent, only of
tbis is retained for home consumption ; the
vast hulaucc is exported. And the fabrics
manufactured of this cotton constitutes two-thirds
of the value of all the woven fabrics
that issue yearly from the countless looms of
Great Brit in And though some have en-deavored
to lessen its value and importance
iu commerce by comparing it to the amount
•t the oihei domestic productions of the
i- ii y, '. '-'ell ihey say, far exceed it in vel-vet
i!.< M ' of !i« demand abroad and its
■ ii i< itI for i xporiation, as aliown by these
mi\ prove its superiority to en)
,l.<i product
Bui i it | os^ihlo aside from thisstatistic.il
i i.- v II," it. io s:i\ what rot toe has d.uie for
maekind? Efa» any man yet attempted to
i-siima'e the infl lenee, moral, physical, and
|s»|itical, whleh that delicate and beautiful
plan! exirei...s on the destinies of man?—
S!!i i t ai-d unseen, perhaua, yet all-powerful
in •*• sal'- jK-rv •-'■.••■† its Influence may
ii inapt l compared to the lig'it of the
rim. Kdenllj gradua'ly, his beai 8 come
t :.in - 'vi- - the -!-:i'i!. met •<■ : ei t." light-id
gladdening all tl>i: rs; I Ihngsog it<
\ thai thej would not disturb tbe slumber-in--
of an infant in its cradle. And yet how
|H.nverfii how mighty .is this same light!—
v\ old it" i-'-i. ■ is lii!i for - • on snd
Id tb< asti
pal ri\ el - e
South would be cut off. We could not rad<;
for without our cotton we would have little
to trade with. Many a great mercantile
house would be closed, and the names o| its
partners paraded in the list.* of bankrwpfey.
Great clipper ships would rot at her wharv*>,
»nd the worm of decay would eat into all
•.heir limbers, tor la: k ol that coiion and its
fabrics, with which their holds wen- once so
richly freighted. The white sails of wnrvaef
merchant marine—now equal to anv in the
world-—would no longer "float in even
breeze under the whole heavens;" but g«-m-ral
ruin and dismay would pervade ail rank-and
classes of men. Does any man think
that I exaggerate the importance ot cotton
and its fabrics? It so, let him examine the
statistics for himself. Let him examine I be
British press, and the writings of t lie leading
economists on this subject. A learned wri-ter
in Black wood's Magazine, referring to thi.-
subjoct, says:
"With its (cotton) increased growth, has sprung u|
that mercantile navy which now waves iis stripes and
stars over every sea, and that toreign Influence whicl.
has placed the internal peace—we may my lh« tubets
tence of millions in every manutin-iuriug cuiinny in
Europe—within the power ol an olligai-chv ol pluuei *
The London Economist, mi the same .-ab-ject,
holds the following UogUngr ;
" The lives of nearly two million of our eonntrymen
are dependent on the cotton crors of America: ilici,
destiny/ may be said, without any kind ol hyperbule, ti
hang upon the thread. Should any dire Calamity be-lall
the land of cod,n. a thou and of our merchant sllip^
would rot idly in dock: nan tlmusncd mills mnst stol
their busy louuis; tiro ihirwn,d ilu,tt>a,td n.<,n In nauli.
$Unt JTum luck vffuud .0 f'td tfvm.'
Our own statesmen, If candid, must make
similar aoknowltoents. For my owu purl. I
do not think the power of language ean s.itli
Lieiitly describe, or tlie mind 'd man tide
quate'y follow up. the beneficial influence in
i very quarter of the globe, among all rank*
:ind classes of men,exerted by this greatest
of all commercial productions. Its power
.old pervasiveness mar be well illut-irated by
:i beautiful extract, with regard to the oper-ation
of tbe atmosphere, taken from Lieuten-ant
Maory's Physical Geography of tin Sea:
"It is only the girling und circling air, that flows
above and areuiid all. thai makes the whole world kin.
The c iri.onic acid wiih which to day our lire Lining till-the
sir. to-morrow sock-- its way round the world. The
date trees tiial grow around the tails ol ihc Mtj wit.
itmding iv-rits. Al ptian I drink itiaby their leaves; the sedan of Lebanon will
pressed of all mankind, tbor I ave studiously ! 'and has reached what would appear to be iktlnt »••-]
prohibited the influx id f£e negroes und<r /"■- •/ ««*'»•"• «■* **»
Governor Vfooal, ot Ohio, on his way to!
Valparaiso, in I8M. speaks thoa of what he!
mrth t ■
erytliinjr and brave i -o gr >pe
it-.it- way m mortal terror; tbo herds run
lowing Irons the fields; vegetation ceases its
wondiif'iil powers of regeneration, and all
tot-lire ■ i» sicklied o'er with a pale cast."—
Tbe gr wt ship founders upon the sea, for
M.en- is no gale to fill her sails. The great
sen i'-c't ceases to ebhand flow, and frost af-•
h tfry !>> ■' II thing on .. ter lio-i strikes deeper and deeper yet into
I o/i.-f which */,ry wuH'M the tifepro- j ih< IMIWSIS of the cracking earth. So, ab-
';- - not in itie power of dcn.e- Jsiraet one cotton crop Irom commerce, and
ir si ution taiisties to avoid ibis pal- ; behold, if you can without a shudder of hor-i,
the yt-8 of all men not ah-I ror the fearful picture. Verily, l-nt thero
t wi tired to the S-»ulb ami ', w- nil he t-nrBeaepf despair on change, and
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l'li m- man, or
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•.i. ; .\ rong wlnh
l ofmen. • i |i ors ju i be palaces of the world's mer-ii
I : ,!.„.,
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ll.e IIS- ,
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■tinon
...i.j as that that which is best should tot f,reswt
ilso be that witch is right. On the conn:.. j,. ( s|av-t<r. ,;, (,,.,.,— ,,.,•
ry, I Lake it to be axiomatic, that, in all ae-j^., Iifaay man in tlieSoml
.. iu which discover u moral element, the best
...;. is always the right way.
N^i\, if slavery ib a sin againstGod, which
■ • iy constituents are committing every day,
and a against (i"!. This is, aiKj whicO 1 utterly deny, who are the re-
L'C ' "! the positions, -Dunsibleauthors ot the evil/ Can it belaid
rtismj purp se ;U ,|lC j oroj-a single human soul
ha ip.«tion, together NO .iheni States? Not one, at I imuj
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,far as I ki m
—but il is here, nevertbeless ; and as candid,
practicable men. we must look at things us
ihey stand on the open perspective before
us. In pursuance of my proposition, I shall
proceed t ■ show that is tigl '
■ | t»ur slaves in su'«j tion on
" ' that it is be-; f r both races; and ti-me.—
bold
it .• tbatil is wrong | j^agi^nd landed the first negro slave on the
Urcnnit it to enter, the Territorie-s. shores of the western world. So early as
gentleman j Ule ycar 1562; tho first living cargo of Afri-1 siavcTv 'm'e cs.ste : North.
us to
opposition
laid down I claim thai ifl can establish thai
it i-- really best I have proven tit :l it is rig'.i"
■ also, and all.'hat I logically carries with i
ii ev
if.
is more undefined ; nothing more
I v oiruu instances or prejuilice
great and signal service be had rendered the
Government, by the introduction ofthis new
trii B is the incentive to much that is source ol wealth, into the colonies. I quote
oas. In all ages of the world men j t|iy i0|iow„,g from Walsh's Appeal:
. . Lj ot irtura well establish ■<! i '- It prove', lucrative, and i.mmed,.iately associations
value .;■.: p,o'-k-do
it '. Was i, from
N ••
I nin-1
love ofthe oppress -i \";. i Ws
|y because of you i deslati»n ■ I t!;-
in heman catt'ei' Di I Imldi •
. . .I to nullify e^isring tews^under , W01V ,;,^j. in KngUnd, among the mo«_opuient and i tM",t,,.11;,, sentiment Ii- >■ BUfli -is .1
ram yonr Phi
Browns and
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t sib-nlieg
i. mi.!
I I . Ol' 'oil
f<,-n r> ferent
.nhiti '•■ 'I
.!.. lean •
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vVithn.it
from tin
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lake of it, to add io Ifkeir stature; the oocoa DUISO,
Talieitc will grow rapidly upon it, and the palms ami
bananas of Japan will change it into flowers. The oxy-gen
we are breathing wu-, distilled lor us some sliori
time ag-> by the magnolias ot* llie Soaquehanna, ami tbe
great trees that Fkirt the Orinoco and the Amazon—the
giant rhododendrons of the Himalayas contributed to
it, and the roses *nd myrtlex of Cashmere, tbe cinna-mon
tree of Ceylon, and I lie foresi older than rlie Hood
buried deep iu the heart of Africa, far behind the Moun-tains
of the Moon, The rain we see descending wae
thawed for us out of the ireberg-whii»h have iratched
the polar star for ages, and the lotus lilies have sucked
up from the Nile and exhaled as vapor BBOWS that rOBt-ed
on the summits of the Alps."
What the atmosphere does fin- vegetation.
cotton, to a great extent, does for man.—
Four hundred miilion, about one, hall of all
the itih-ibitanls ol lira earth, are i sinners
of cotton. Literally, it clothes the world —
There is not a village girl in all nnrlnud, but
appears on every Sabbath morning, Is'it t
dressed, more tastefully and eouiforiahh
than did Biizabeth, Queen of England, only
three hundred years ago. Nor is ibis all of its
office. It is tho great keeper of the peaei
between the nations. There is not a civiliz-ed
Government on earth but whose councils
for peace or war, are ruled by ibis king • i
commerce more than by any other human
consideration. Louts Napoleon is called lb
arbiter ofEurope; we might say, wiih mon
truth, thai these lour million slaves hold n
their hands the destinies of the world. The)
bind England and all In r vast dependencier
more closely to US than all the treaties and
Compacts—which at be>t :i i e but ropes ol
sand when interest and ambition conlpct —
that diplomatists can iK-vi-.-. Ii couum-i-ci
is indeed doing more lor the riviliscul on ol
the earth and the advancement of phi n-o
I crying "iharlpy than all the oilier labors a.deo..i namv
the Egj i tian mothers (of humanity, as 1
note their breasts over
piin.-csi Ay. and worse t' tit! is;
> nlil be wailings in the cabins i>f the
:... r -i d the cries of strong men and of suf-
;. •; • - .■. linen and of starving children would
H—ml up together; remorseless crime woald
italk forth from its dark cells, and soon the
mi Inght air would be fro-en with the cry of
"murder !" and the stars in the vault of heav-en
would beecliiHwri in the conflagration of
cities whose people were fed and clothed with
cotton. Great Britain, alone. Is estimated to
have two million employe**) in lor cotton
factories Add t • this number those who
are dependent on these employees for subsis-
!*t ••• u 11 we have, bv estimation, not less
-ix million souls iti the British empire
• e meat and drink and clothing and sbel-
--*>-■-■ -y •
ti, y> .'xtrcmilics ui a disruption/of the Government.
istituting the ahior ling theme 6f j our
f t!iis cotton ! I' is literally their
• ! Imt one year's sup-
■se fseiories, and hor-
■I \ mi can, 'bis vast
■I I,- . r«.'e men. with
,er* -t famine throt-ives
;p d I ;- less babes.
, - til
■ , - ^ •■- were JUIUICU m ^.M^.
i-. from the patriot who strikes a „1;lllUgJlglR.(i mta of the country, to follow up the sd- j . f Phaiilr*- at d nel 1
■ rhlsCOlintry to tl.c thief who robs I venture- Soon tho object began to bj considered asof!,la> ,r_" - C , o. .
their flrnt-horn after
f il,-- -.-, - d f death,
'lose desperate men,
!•.. - c1 i >] and death I efore.—
I I,i. i ri.io1; and where Man-
.' ' 'ties, whose swarm-
! i ath< I'' .-'on.os-
VI-I-IHS' ii dang of
I-I • ( ! v -1- ■-
• '■ †■• hall
.. | indtisTv. ■ rever
would ign in
would be feart
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n Hi
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III
nine-tenths of all these honed en I r.-uls
mii-t be attributed to these sonibern -hives,
Who pl od'.ice nine Iclilbs ot all fhe col I on "i
,i mcrce. The man. Iheri fore, who strikes
it blow at its pnslbction, is. in my up nioti
ti l-nh,lii.n.K the i" ^i iiileresl ol the woi Id, and i-
,|| the bayonets himseii -si g agaiiial:Gi-l.
,1,-t :-'l the guns that , Ootion cam t be prisloced by whin lal.-.r
„• S!clH»ato|->l emildiin mai iriouB low ground-of tin &..itih,
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n also '
. _ ., H tvM V. i II
,i.. - ir charter ■•
hem of. This i • precisely • - -
i at this '.:-i> by the practici j I n
a who steal out ue^roes from
j5(J1J ■. • . i boon tn a John B iw; -. wi •■
ii>ij it their backs—at :■. sate di km e.
. . raud abetting, and deivinj
the Constitution and the law aade in pur-inee
ihereot 1 i-ommend it t>.- the gen-frora
Uownectict Par many y>
o I
i.'h I
ll.e
yon
This, sir
ift'ie
. .-, ul
i profit ibin and desirti
:; pot's of entry ami cli-mate
bei'is.' in N '"ii- lavor von r■-eiv.-d tbe
Jsof« ;rati in which P «-l in 'eon En-ni
s ■ •; ireni-
...,.-.. ,! "h this m. .it ' -
;.. • ki > lain ' ' ii''i ' •
I .-■ ••
ii Us
,1 •'.< . Ifter
r •■! t •ion
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Uiiicl S:atcs. the effect would only
. s dreadful, because we have greater
■«. for feeding our mme widely spread
•1, and because thero are fewer of
.•. engaged in laaftufacturiug But
csndeul t that it would be fright-
■ HI i in plate If a tirtl- temporary de*
,l of our h'n s •■'• •' condition could
, • distrea- at » terror thrnugboutl«
is was witnessed through the pies-j
sure of 1*57 what would be the eflsot were
. t'. ;r million five hundred thoiistind halts
coit in, forming two-thirds of all that we
• • t .'■ foreign nations, suddi uly to fail
i',. is-- would grow in the streets of
r lovi h N «r Eugla i1 village; and
• ii.u:_'t'-. I'.1 "
Me ,
•I poverty
out a fearful aacri i*e uf linman life. N>
length ol time can sufficiently ac-dint le the
European to the torrid heats of ihecolion
. ..... A,, i in no other quarter of tho world
ran il be so successfully cultivate.: as in il.i
southern Slates below tho thirty-fifth paral-t>
tho thirtieth. Tho God of nature so
Is the rains, has so fixed the winds, and
, tempered the extreme* of heat and cold,
..:.; nno it her quarter ol tho glols; di s it
Qourisl so well. England would to-day
uy amount of tieasuro, and |-h' I any
of blood, to acquire a surficieiit leiri-
. :1. ipted to its growth) to supph her hic-
, and relieve Irer from this worse than
. incial dependence «n Ihe soul Item -t.ite-.
But Enghnid, with all her slop- m war aim
all her men of seiem-e. ibrooglKiut ihe broad
earth, has not yet found that territory, tut I
perhaps never will The water-sheds ol the
Amazon and the Ganges, me div< r-Mie.l
plains of tbo sixth continent, and nil tbe is-lands
of the Indian archipelago, lioiu tin
mouth of tho Indus to the unpeopled waste
of the Antarctic continent, have been explor-
J in vain; and il remains yet Io h
the
rife
:i
it: .it
t
indlng phrases
. Jiai - l,arl
ir an
t ' ■ 11 « here thev i:r w
tooJ
.. I , ■ , i r. :ts
Li ite the imt . - ilbh ' ' '" ■ •
. t ii i.. .,.( afierwards, tbe success ot tho trade Ocean
,„thc settled policy ol the Briti,! \ ill ta I-la. :-rona to
iment, for the Buccos-t-il idv nit i "t
.-..•■ c 111 ' :•' ■† I :
■ , .. .
I III
-•.liTa:
l'l
i •■ tiiuiir. iii.il l -
;.,,,. ■..._.- ,• st.ltdc-in all the II.ark. t of the
q tl h e known wi'ii the fun her fa t
was '"'■
:1-
whether nati.-e Africans, under British task-masters,
on the banks ol the Niger, ran be
made to riva1 the slaves in the valley ol the
Father ot Waters.
All this these slave- arc n w doing in the
South Indeed, ibis is but a flint outline ol
the magnificent results which t ie-■ In iiig*.
torn from a barbarous • annil.a'i-m. are now
HMVIS to accomplish m the «i ■ • • ■> - ol
God. Kcverling t • the other I ,. I of th,
subject, we inquire wh.-ii the-e lour ml Ii in
slaves Would il
pains and penulties The il-w Stales seek
nig entrance into the tJnioj i leorporale into
'heir fuud.-iun-nial consi n uy i,s . innlar |uo-hibitions,
and Oregon, w/,i h we admitted
• luring the last C'oiigie>s. 4ent sofarastoin
sen a clause torbiddinie/sueh persona the
privilege of her courts ofhstiee
The miserahleandabjed < ondition of those
amongyon is the best indea ion ol that which
ours would occupy it s'tfrr •. With all yoar
professions oi regard by their rijhis—lead
ing you, as it does, «> extremities which
threaten
and con
whole literature and rwwilics—it is a well-known
and acknowled-on fact lhat, in your
daily intercourse and ■! talings, you exhibit
less kiuilncss for. and greater aversion to,
the free negroes than the ; pie ot tin- South.
And, today, the most srefie Republican iu
your ranks would r.-j ,n t i see t' e last one
leave your border-. i'or MII know lhat
they constitute a leprot » bloieb upon the In,-
dy-poliiic I presume herein not mi intelli-
.-cnl man in Europe oi Atnei-na other I ha
i fanatic, whoisitol ''.\ ihi* nine -..ii-ti.-
' hut, aside from tbenilural i. i! leiice o| hi-lisposition.
the negro i- Hoi i :I|MK'I im utaf-y.
of being elevated t.i a in t'ona Id a fsi
, „ >.~i 11<, 11 bj the side of ihe al lie mun. Tm
nay make a tolerable Aboliihiniit out ol
|s3rha|H>. one in a hundred , I :.t 1 fancy that
ill the appliances a . I tut ■: :i._ ■ : \ i ■•.. fi ri-
I0III--I1I iekel s could IIOl IlialCC :i dee .1:1 linltl.
>r a lespcelable ci 112elf, out ol nllC 111 ;• thou
sand.
If. having so very few a nong y«il|, yon
lecni it so important In your welfare to lor-bid
their increase that you ui!l resort to In
trotig.-irm ofthehiw to prevent it. and will
not, under anv ci ■•■u Hint :■■ .ces. permit a ne-gro
to cuter your I orders, unless he is run-ning
away from hi* muster, or is stolen Ir. in
him, you can wed judge of eur anxiety to
prevent our who e land from being Blled
with free negroes. What would be our con-dition
were all nut slaves turned loose among
us 2" Take the Si ito of South Carolina, for
instance, when-, to about three hundred t hou-sund
whites they have some lour bundreii
thousand slaves. Turn thc-e hsisc, and win
imt H trace Givel-y itnd (fcrrit Smith wouk.
desire to live iirl leSlale? Siu-h a coudiiioi
of things would bo absolutely intolerable.—
The land lhat is now the si a I ot MI mud
wealth, taste, aid order, that fiirid-hes s<
much val ,;il,le commerce I.' t :.<• M'orld hi tin
means of slave abnr, would become .1 pena
colony, with f"ti: hundred i! nusand free ue-groes—
ruined bv the very lilierti which yon
would give tin it—roaming up and down
thieving, plundering, and iufeaiiug the retj
itmo-piiero with idle - and crime. Tin
only tiling it could effect foe yon, would In-to
nationalize ti e Black Republican party.—
Neither Ills nor property would la* safoj and
such would In the eauo in etery souibern
State. Genera ion after generation would
(■ass away bvlo 'O Wfl COtlld recover from till
-bock, and oui fertile fields would n*>utn r«-
siuue the pi'iimv.il look of the forest I i-h r.
ither hands co tld be fouin I io open their Isi-
-onis to tiie sin ; Any one at all acquainted
s'itb the history uf emancipation in tlie lhit-ish
West Indies will know thai I do not ex
aggerate, but rather fall short of the actual
picture.
Says General "Bcnningsen, in bis recent
masterly letter to Victor Hugo:
•• In Africa, ih :■ negro, aceot din; to Rgyptiaa paint-iiip
« ai least tuui or live thousand yi-us old. (sad lo
wliich double ih i age has recently been si igni-d, ha-been,
for at least tbeforniet peri d, la coniact with civ-ilisation.
He i- still unchsngi -i in n pe and condition
" Tlie cullivat ion of the Kgypitin. ol the I'crsian ot
ihe (ireek, ol il •■ Carthaginian, ol tin lioeian, and o
the Arab, have f him whs mi I bin —a barbs
ian. a savage, ir a stare
-•Since the IWelaralion <i • Ind nenden v
left in bimsell » Hayii, with 11 ::.■■:.
number of hi: hl.\ cduc direct I im
roil know thi savagery in
Hardly has th.*grotCSIIIIC I ■• i
uele which Suuloaqne im] ■•■■'•'■ \ i'
pre-id OUCy' Ol ' ■> Ill a! 'I I - i-1 . .. i ;
iis race) when you have a hid ■† .- si in| Ic ol I!
C vilixalion i!.- unprecedentti uiiti '■: ! '- tool
feuding dauj hi r.
•■In the '*'-' India isU e ncgrn has r'cl
lands, a i-i'ii ;iMiiai climate and ■■■.•■ n nf
i iipii-ei'i dor ■■■ i: .:i »r -. irerj in tin
rec State" of the N nth. I," I i! by liijld;
eivili/i-l si - oi i i •-. whi extend lo liim roanrcnanei
sympathy, md aid V--t *■' wheseihes
Left le bin-ell. be falls into ba .putism, so
virtu-il 801 .'iiii !«.- " t
A dis- ;iio;iii-licii alsilitiou n s., mury, sen-
.Tut in hiiiMiien lo labor am in'r, tbe tree i .
'roe-, and Io furnish ei i I -m •• i, ihc World
ol ibeil e:ipaeil\ for civil:/, i' i il . -:n s :
" Th.l nolhin>r. save tin- nil
vvilll 'lllll'le lu--:ilis it'e'lne-lli I I :ili'l t eii: ln'l- ill o liclioli.
i illniic them tr im i shi/wi tgi i r
The seventh annual rcjsut of the Ameri-can
M ssionary Association .-a;.-:
•• Foi most of tbe sdull il rat lies—the
'inharr1-- victims of Ion ' nanddegra-tion—
ii- r Minion haii ' fit
ttf i /■" 7 '" ft" /" " '-
Li'oin the auninil repni'l nf the America I
ami 1 oreigii Anti-Slavery S icicty, 1853 I
ipiole ;i";.iin :
"Ths friends of emanrrpntion is tbe Cniled Si
have b' en usappoinied, in i i |- rts. si then sail*
in the lest la lii-. b ' I loo much.—
A naiii n ol -1 ires c inn it •.' o i ie Ii • conrerte I into a
nation of intelligent in d moral Irtimta.
Alt I to/aili :
•• Li-eiiiioiisnrs- prerailH to :i> ■ - alarming extent
among the people. Che alpre«alence "
intern) erance If anol liei iree of I he al
darkie M sad de -i il i in ol
With much more lo tli ue effect. The
Loncoii Times, ul I year, speak-witnessed
iu Jamaica:
••We-aw ini'iv ]i! ml 11:. ni—the building" liUpida-ted—
tiel-1- me half worked, an I apparently
an-l nothing bat lhat whioh will.grow withoai,
btbor appeared luxsibtst and Soiirinliing Since the1
Masks have bean Uberatsd. Ihey hars be-ome iDdoleat.
deizritdeil. sad dishoad They are a rude, b silly ae<
ofvagabonds, lying naked about the areaUt, »» filthy
ts the Hottentots, sad I believe i.
Bishop Kip-,,, ,. a!s,i, on tlie stmo subject".
"The .lej ■ iiinii to which the negro popula-tion
kaasonh, «,• are told, is lailesitltiatils
Tin ;', ■ lew SKtrat t* from 'he vast
mesa of testimony whioh all randi I men have
been coinpeileil lo bear on this pubjeetj Slid
nothing Imt the connected pursuit uf my sub-ject
would have induced me to wa-ie time
in tiling pi-nofas to ihe alterdegradai on ,f
free negro communities.
The scheme of r> moving and colonizing
four million people is so utterly absurd in
practice lhat it needs only to he suggested to
exhibit ;t- entire impracticability, Amalga-ini'in
i o '• h a s, tl a! • ven tin-II illd olja fa
stic ie«s ;i- III disgust and loathing from tho
i"o-|i i t . I intermingling the quick and jeal-n,
s |i'i,.i.| i.fihe l'liropean with tbe putrid
-'i im of African barbarism. What, then. 1
IN i"- t ai d i i-iit to be d,HIe with our slavos ?
rlsiiih aid uiiequivocally, common sense
•ays i... the s'sve where he is now—in ser-rilude
The ii.( u-t of ihe -hue imperative-
Iy denia - Thi interest of the master,
ol the Dni IS d -. ul the world, nay, of :
humanity Iis,!- *nya keep the slave in bin
bondage j treat him humanely, leach him
him Christianity, rare for hi in in sickuese and
■II age ami make his bondage lii^lit as may
he; but above all Keep him a slave an'l in
strict subordination ; lor that is his normsl
'-i.iliiiin; the one in which abmo ho ean
noino'e the interest of himself or his fel-i
■ »s. If ud- is I,,,I the language of politi-
- il philosophy and true philanthropy, it this
i- not right, then are my tnosi trdentoonvk>
lions and the most ".encrous impulses of my
In-art but shallow and false delusions; and I
■ ray tube enlightened, aa one who would,
il possible rise above till the surroundings
if prejudice and socliou to view this great
ipicstiou solely hy ihu pure and unflickcriig
ight ol truth.
Stieh b ing our ciroumstances, and such
• in- Cilivictlolis, it is time for the opponents
of slavery t" know, and to bo warned, that
it is something mors than pecuniary interest
ihat binds us to lhat inst tinioii. It is not,
is we are often (auutingty (old, ti desire forj
.ain. or an aversion to physical labor, that
makes us jealous of any interference with,
slavery. The prim iple is more deeply sea-ted
than ill- The goneral welfare and
prosperity uf our country, the very founda-tion
of o.ir sin i, ty, ul our fortune-, and, to a
greater or i-•-- extent, the personal safety of ,
• nil- people, ci inbin io make, its defend it to
■ he l,t-i extteiuity. And ie itfn r considera-.
MOI sol tin- Federal Union, nor any other
■r 1, will all iw US to lierillit anv direct in
i erfere nee with nur right* in fill* respect.
But we are tube lulled to sleep, and our
liars quieted, as to i he purposes ol tl.e He-]
publican party, hy oft-repeated assertions' o
your leaders, that you do not intend to in
terlere with it in the State V u say. again
that you inly intend to prevent its exten-sion
into tin- Territories; anil you complain
thai southern men will unjustly continue to i.
■■ barge you with it inside the Stater sir. 1
-i'.varil, in his rocent opiate, says: -
•:;. Thai Ihe capital Slates [bj which be i- sassss- t
■ I i mean slave Ktales1 do unl praclieally di-tin^ni-h J
between legin is ind constitutional reaisism le il.e
stensl in slavery into the esmmos Terriloritsol "he
'•••II and i • ■■ ■ †'i a H 1 a against i-lavery
by local 1 is iu he I i Btsl i."
An I Mi i Ins i ol it down recently,
as one ••! i -. < ■■' prlncitdea of the Uepub-y.
il, ,t there ahal hs no ii t i for-
■■!-■'• ii 8t ate*. I cmi-
-o • ', I ' • ••! I1. i'l -: i i' v ill all the j
IV,. it i "ito ss-
'is, i • .-,,|fi -1 i ■ !, c a-., shsreens>
i- -.. - : Ii a ilireel and uiicipiivo-it
inn ; ■ II IIHI I whiidi c • iii ITI - ••■ †set aa
will : il i ii •: ii • sort "l il.el.-. III the first
■ice. I- i u.aleriali , impsirS the value
•I my ; • ■.- ■† ' I" "'' |s7Wt r iii re-
IIOVeii; ai HI .hi' n no bmaer
il\ pro •'. iy -.li I ' . . |i • \ III' M >-.
. ! i ■† '•■ I : ■- I i be • th*
i . .'•■. 11 i '•! " If your shoes and cot-lltll
full ie s \\#rc pi- 'ill.i-el hi I' II^I-INI
ring the .South \ a woold find
ill , air -I III"-! Wofsll , . li-id a • ill 1(1
iu-tly n'gard i- -an interisvenet with ihe
rights of Irt
III tie see nd place, by surrounding the
i i Si IU s M ith free territory and huihling
is in with an impassable wall, y.ui wouhiJ
-ventually foree tin abolition ol slavery. Our
population would become so douse, ami our
-laves so nnmorons, that we could not live;
• Ii i >uld depreents tn n< thing, ardi
•. • -,. .aid not be able to l'i I Ii, y
H-it call i his or I . i Imi j
• A general desires lo take I ' i lain city
I'.i.-iki..' ii too strong to be won by atone
he -its ilou II with his army before it. draw
I,I- In as I erciimvul atioii, ent- rdf its sup'
pile*, in d shnliing nil all communicalloaJ
wait- patiouily f.r famine and dome>tw la-]
-III reel i"l| ••■ do their WlTW. 'l'l I i% lie SiysJ
Don t be . I n nn il in there; I ai-i rot goiai
iii iutefere wiih t r>usintern il a H ir I liavi-V-no
right lo tl i - t ii,. i II ic, .
of wsr in my camp is, no iutcif-renee w iti -
the intet \ ; my only in •
tent ion i- t isi •- - n shall not ■ •, \ on
area very sinful |ieopte."' V, ■ • jiV, in
.pit-' of lhese proleetstions woi Id soon Its
litre d '.veils in
( ill , run down to the
„ .! ',- -. ii itio i, dragging
him an t 'at w.s ! ,vi Iy md .lebeate in
"^•Z-r^^'as^r-ili-'i' disturb voor buai-ing
' It'n results ol cma Mipatioii in Jamaica, it sell -tibjujai >i| and ruined. >ntep-\
fenirina with our rights in the most dangeri]
on- manner, bj ihiis king to violate "nil
ol the ud plainest | rim s of jun
lice and reason—thai \ m r not do \>n\i
directly that «I.n-h vou are forbidden m di
lirectly. • •• \ l i- • i tlie nation, ~p--akinJ
in a -late IV■ci ,| mi Seed
.v'nt. III.
.
-. . _ iii, ran u
..'' "V ■!".,,:.; . ' , . _\ :. IIS, whilst
.';;.' ■ ■ †! tv .7 is autouohed. I am
•"'•l-.i.,... ,vlll)) regardlejfjs, perhaps, ot its
. ■
pri^-ii.ge of supplying the colonies ol
...;: ■†-,
utiier ci iropes« Powers with African slaves;
under one id which, that of Utrecht, it. 1713,
the Spanish West Indies were filled.
....•■† i ■• it iety ■
Mt-ita.- sir] ECS
tern.
What do these slaves
us
t
•r tl
Wi-ll
do for • n ilizt
ul flllll
i ti • striRes" w hich now
„ — ,;-.d alum
•ii it th...c I with n
her- 'I ml. 'I'1'*'
,v '
no
• v
SCI"
il vis.t :
i... i„ , erial niti ■•!
shaken lo tbe center,
•n ' traffic in cot:
• ...,r capitalists, would be
. ohtti m and stained with
n'sery ami snffering which
il .ugh yo-ir hit tl with all
! !••• such as
o t:are-know,
that as a class, the free "ne-r-ics arc
the most worthless, idle and di— dull "I all
creatures. E-ery observing mi i i i both
hemispheres has uniformity hums le*ii n.\
to this lact, since the Alricsu clmracti r has
been known to Euro| e n- The L yislalurc
of nearly -.-\.t.:-y mojiherii s .- .- -c .ken
- indeed i upon theataiate is. .U. in ws i «»*■ kable
; tones, upon this-ii j.'i-t r r. wl il-l KI >g
New York would he tbe loudest prol-s-i... - ol v.-rsal ; torn
M i only the great j and equality, and of holding wide .., •■ .. the
. but her e..-.s>e trade with the doors of their counlry as a lefnge I. .-the -p
| -ay s :
■• Ths^jestro bss sol sooanred wi Ii his freedom any
bsbitr of industry or an ndepi denes is
pot il tie belter than i ptiiml hrnie. Hav>
lag .-i eepted rew ol llie - hi •-
aiiici ible n> '.,v. a ii- i: ■ '!'!,.■ bla* I -
fore, si esd ol he ' ■ linen, havi
I
will < nine ihe la! in-in i instructing or in 1838. In ihe |'« ,i,t > -I-' i, ( iigrcss, M
caiiri'ling its popnla Alherton, of New ll-im; -i j,-. . ,, ^, ,i a m,
T :e Time, gcHjs on. in tei jis too long for : ies nl re- in i i - ni| ti, - sat-j i-t, the third
tore, us BSU lie ■ • -r Uiaml en, have I , *, . ,, i
i,e,-,i'v,„ - .- no. :,,,„■,■ Ihroegh its llep -en inin ,r„yn
hend-dihu. with ihe lai ration in the island, four to one North and South affirmed tin
quotation here, to e\, r - i i - belief, founded
upon the very highest nut lily, lhat the
who e ' inas-'- of tin- population wiil retro
grade |o hjti b-ri-m " The \'ew fork Even.
iiii; 'o-t known i" ben viotsnl Abolition
jo.,r. al. in -p "I the in-dii-
i aal ii.i.-ie-:- i i tii,- - md ii few vear
ago. - . - :
•• T iis de'dia- I: i- b • n . •' _- ri frota rear is year,
daily teeoming m ire slsesniog unlit al Ijngth the i-wbich
s.*ts Ii r h —
"That Congress has no rigbl ' is thai indirsetl
which ii • line.' ui, ii
lbs sub eet of slavery in ths bi rlct ol f'olumbia
1th T md wit h l 'lisluTl
bin/ •• .in ihe -• \ ri i
•' ' • IIIII^i ■,; tl;.
Cone Dills Si»i,-
utTeri an ii |#uol i pes whitt-t
..•■;. ; red istol e I'onfed
up I I.I- 11 - liltii II tie ti as were 16h
\ si