Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1821-08-21

with their professions, and remove the |
evil without the borders OF their wide |
domain,
Nothing is more true than that do
mestic slavery is the bot bed Of tyranny,
and the districts in which it is tolerated
are the nurseries Of aristocracy and des-
potism. Hear what that eminent states
man and profound philosopher, Thomas
Jefferson, says upon The subject. In his
Notes ON Virginia, he observes:
There must doubtless be an unhap-
ply influence on the manners OF our peo-
Pile, produced by the existence of slaye-
ry among u.s.. The whole commerce
between master and slase is a perpetual
exercise Of the most boisterous passions,
the most unrelnitting destotism on the
one part, and the most degrading SUBJ
mission on the other, Our children see
this, and learn to initiate it, for man is an
initiative animal! This is the germ Of
Iall education in him. The parent storms,
the child looks on, catches the Inca
ments of wrath, puts on the same airs in
| the circle of smaller slaves, and thus
lnursed, educated, and dily exercised in
lfyranny, cannot but b. stamped by it
| with odious peculiarfies. The man
must be prodigy who cen retain his
manners and morals uhdepraved by such
circumstances. And with what execra-
ton should the statesman be loaded,
who permitting one haif Of The citizens
| thust % fran.hle' on shtrigAts otthe other,
1transforn,s those inso deShots, and these
into enemies, destroying the morals of
the one part, and the amor patria Of the
other"
This is a highly finished picture, but
| who will doubt the truth Of it, when
coming from such a source? Again,
Ispcaking on the same subject, he says:
lssI tremble for my country, when l re-
fleet that God is just; that his justice
cannot sleep forever that considering
numbers, nature andnatural means only
arevolutiou Of the wheel Of fortune, an
Exchange of situation is among possible
events; that it may become probable by
Supernatural interference The AL
mighty has no attribute which can take
side with US in such contest. But ii is,
to betemperate and to pursue
this subject through the various consi-
derations Of policy, ofmorals, Of history
4 natural and civil we must be contented
to hope they will force their way into
every ones mind. think change is
already pesccp,ible since the origin of
the present revolution. The spirit of
the master is abatins, that Of the slave is
rising from the dust. his condition mol
lifying, the way Of hbpe preparing, un-
der the auspices of\heaven, for total
emancipation, and that this is disposed,
in the order Of events. no be with the con-
sent of the masters, rather than by their
Iextirpation."
| Such is the language Of one Of our
[wisest statesmen, and who may, politi-
cally speaking, be EN- hatically termed
1.-THE brightest star in the constellation of
sages that formed the Plan Of our excel
lent government. To a mind like his,
the hypocritical villany Vt the unprinci.
Piled advocate Of slavery is clearly dis
cernable; and he can readily perceive
the germs of aristocracy and tyranny
which are thus I" invoven with his
frame" Admitting the truth Of all this,
now .esesssly W. app.al lor Ihe
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a s,s ~, s ;,' 'l ps;o' % .'e nns'
deeoys the unwary, aid tcinpts them to |
turn from the path Of honest reci-
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