Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1823-11-15
OPINION ABROAD.
From the woodstock (yt.) Observer.

From the Woodstock (Vt.) Observer.
In the State of Indiana, the PROPOSE
ton lately submitted to the people for
an amendment other cons tuition so as
TO ADM, of slavey, has been rejected by
large, majority A similar question
Is to be decdei next August in the
State OF Illinois where the friends Of
slavery are on he alert to effect their
cruel object, by making the free State OF
Illinois, receptacle and market tor
human flesh am blood. The rejection
OF the horrid proposition by con igu-
GUS State, may have favorable effect
on the voters OF lnois, and save them
rom piunslng INTO the inlquitous and
loathsone practice of slavery. Ii the
people OF thai young State will hearken
to the Older States, ii is not possible thai
they will seriously think OF perpetrating
the vile traffic in their own borders.
The conduct oil many of the Oldest States
on the subject of slavery, ard the supe-
rlor increase in wealth and responsibility
OF some OF the new ones where slavery
is not tolerated over those where it IS,
must convince The sober, retlec,iag citI-
zcns OF Illinois, thai il they study their
OVID good, they must reject every pro-
position for the introduction OF slavery
among them. The following edi,o-
rial article from the Shenandoah Herald,
a Virginia paper, and in slave State,
may be read with prof by the people oil
any state who are dosirous OF Traffic king
IN the human species:
ID sguise thyse!f as thou wilt, Slave
Try, suli thou art bitter draught." -
SHcb was the observation OF the senti-
men,al Sleroe, and such is tho echo ot
every warm hearted philanthroplst. THIS
apostrophe OF tht good man Stcrne, for
clbly struck as when few days ago,
we saw driven BY our otfice, forty or fifty
negroes, oil all ages, SIZES and sexes.
" are ianiilaiized To droVes OF cattle
passing through cur town, To seek a
markeI elsewhere, but we confess, that
II is seldom we have met with a more
appalling sight Than the one We allude
TO. What! flee country furnishing a
passport 10 the most unqualified tyran-
ny a Tree country, SO degrading itscIl,
as 10 suffer humber OF human beings,
manacied aud guarded, to pass through
is towns and is villages, merely be-
cause tue Old hat made us all, has in
hls wisdom, thought proper to make
them black : Is it practical common
tary upon our republican institutions,
or has the genius OF those institutions
become perverted by toe bribery OF
wealth
Congress has declared that no slaves
shall be imported into the United States.
Our own Virginia has SAID without
Ger am legal forms are complied with, a
slave brought here, becomes Tree af;er a
residence OF Twelve mouths in the state.
But IS there no feature in our national or
stale CONSTITUTIONS, that could be so dis.
torted, or rather could be so beautified,
as 10 prevent these herds of suTeriuc
4uman beings, from being dragged
through the country like bru,es to a
market!
What an example to set the rising
generation Is il no, in appreciation Of
ibe most ab)ect servitude most
hardened cruelty
II IS no' mere theory, but fact
established as clear as the Doon-day sun
that example has a stronger influence
over the MINDS OF children, than all the
information bouomed upon theory, de.
rived from schools OF the most learned
faculties. Thus when we see the han
less negroes drove through our towns
followed by the hardened wretch their
driver, who perhaps, calculating at every
pace the gain he expects from his IN.
god'y purchases, and smoking his separ
as he Tolls in his carriage, with the
" consciousness of duty well perform.
ed'"--We say, when these sights are
presented to our youth, that they natural
~ lmblbe ideas of The most sanpuinary
cruelty, and begin to calculate the value
OF human being, in the same scale as
they would COW.
That our ancestors have entailed the
evil OF slavery upon Us is Iamentabe
lac'' and that we can easily get rid of
TINS ioui blot upon our escu,cheon is
not to be expected; but the stain might
DC gradually lessencd, and if we did not
i've to see the day our children miob,