Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1823-04-26
FOR THE sPEcrATo R.

ORNLlD.
FOR THE SPECTATOR.
Extract from the Declaration Of hide
;aendeace. with remarks, by dBereal
QthorS.
We bold these truths to be self eVideat
thai all men are created equal; that they
are endowed By their Creator with certain
unaIienable rights; that among these are
life, liberty, and the pursuic Of happiness
Dec. Of Indh.
A kidnapper, or his defender, is nel-
thcr christian, nor republican bu,
despot, whose traffic in slaves is totally
irrcconcilahle with the principles Of JUS
tice and humanity. -
What hyhocricy and hillary, to pro-
fess that we are votaries Of liberty while
we encourage or connteDance the nost
igno5le SLAVERY. We cannot form to our
selves an iaea OF an object mpre ridicu-
lous, than an American patriot signing
declarations of independence with one
: hand, and with the other brsadishlng his
whip over his affrighted slave.
Rrannagaa.
W. combat not the theft OF negroes on
the coast Of Africa, and the transpor,a-
ton Of them to til United States--the
wholessle mSnse aier, Ike CAIN, bears
the ases 10 his forehead; he IS o. fugitive
and pagabond upon the earth: and The
christian broker in the trade of blood,
whose wealth is increased by a!ienating
all social Affections, by seHering ali re-
la,ive ties, by djssolving all domestic re-
lations, and by transpIaniing from one
state 10 another these wrctched creatures,
because they have Heren, ,ipge from
himself, is the primeval murderer's own
Offspring. Examine his face, it is the
exhibition OF every Internal passon.--
Use same Shareholders would wade
through seas OF The blood of white men
as we'll as black men, to CRAFTY then
dsapo,ic propcnslties, il they were not
rcsts.jned: it is The fear, and not the love
of s.her God or man that Restraints
them. ID.
Slavery is made up of every crime thai
treacaery, cruelty, and murder can in
vent; and man-stealers are the very
worst of thieves. VIVA, an universal!
uproar i would make in this land, if bu.
one pos child were kidnapped from his
parents; and yet this kidnapping is re-
gular practice among protesting chris
tsns. These are the people whom The
scrir ire describes as being fQst feeling
Tat sos kpavish tricks are practised by
these draiers IN human hesh-and il the
Slaves bink Il our general character,
they aus think that christians are devils,
AM ihsr Christianity was forged in he'll.
Il sse slave-pnrchasers talk OF d.
maged Save as OF damaged horse !;
SO : pgaig working slaves, and others
brse3ins Slaves; for the children o'
8. YES arc no. according TO the law OF ma.
turs, ne properly of their parents. but
O. their owne,s; and when the planters
and taeir overseers have children by their
negroes. instead ofreg arding theotfsprine
Of Their vicious passions, they breed up
and sell The their own children in slavery
like others. What dishonor in US 10
carry on soch an aboninable traffic, and
10 atternpi 10 yindicate or even palllate
1t, when .yery principle be longing TO y
is founded upon ineura6le injustice =
Shall we cab ourselves christians or de
wills Can a race of devils act against "
worse than we do against them? In wick
edness, as it relates TO our principle anc
practice, We abundantly exceed. Iht
horrid business Of slavery, in the whole
Of its establishment, is founded on the
mammon Of anrigh,coushess," Oh ;
selfish love of the world; and the result
Of this Internal traffic is cegu ar syste n
Of wholesale licensed thievery and muir
Ger. Instead Of supposing the. prineipi e
OF christianity for moment allow snch
hellish commerce in an blood, a
We are made by ior togyes Of the gosp,
What we sbsald be ny the letter Of th