American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-12-03
FOR THE WATcHMAN.
SLAVERY.-No. 4.

"Slaves cannot breathe in England if their lungs
| Receive our air, that moment they free.
lhey touch our country and their shackles fall"
CowpEn
We have assumed the task of proving that no one should
do evil IN order that good may arise hererom and If
succeed in establishing this proposition it will follow, that
no one should be deferred from doing good through tea
OF an evil consequence.
To adduce long train of authorities, and to depend foi
proof OF this proposition upon the sayings Of moral writer's
would be to look for those and principles others
which 10 be found in the breast of every rational being
Our hopes Of reward from the appreciation of our con
sciences, and ancpaons of happiness hereafter are
all founded upon the basis of doing those actions
which in themselves good We are not to inquire
when we do justly, whether justice will be perverted
by others into bad purposes. We merely g
well our own parts and control the des.
MES OF the UNIVERSE search farther the per-
formance Of our duties than to inquire merely whether we
are doing good Shall withhold just debt because my
creditor VIII mlsemploy the money put INTO his hands
Is It required of me to destroy helpless invalid because
am persuaded that he will be OF no either himself
or his friends Or, finally, shall usurp to myself the
Judgment seat and take the power from him to whom it
justly belongs Assuredy not-and more need not be
said to prove that evil should be done in order that
good should ARISE herefrom.
10 the point therefore, we proceed for if we have
satisfied the mind OF any that Slavery is in itself
eu-tla the HHe by which slave is detained in seryitue
fctious and that he should be thus detained from
an apprehension of greater ei to arise from the Of
emancipation; it will follow that the person satisfied,
must stand condemned, if he perseveres in having an,
thing to do with crime which is blot upon the human
characer-a crime whose olor arises to heaven. Slow
may be the descent of the avengng stroke and OF long
suffering may be the MIND upon which multiplied in-
qulues making their impressions but viii be the
AIM and terrific the overthrow of oppression.
Let it moi be SAID am premature, for as it is
late, SO neither is 1t ever too to do goods and
he plainly shown, thai Of the evils be appre
hended, is instead Of beng decreased by delay, rapidly
increasing and for this reasonthat il the slave holding
States the blacks increase in greater proportion than the
Whites because they know that their offspring will be
ncumbrance them, they provided tor by the
ter and of course they socous about early
naSts But in the northern nonsave States the free
blacks do not increase in the ratio as the whites
l4smuch as the former are genearly poor, and being
elled 10 support their progeny not early in forming
matrimonial connexions but the whites, being gen
orally in good circumstances, marry earlier, and RAPIDLY
increasing upon the free black population. What
ceent reason is this, (and have the authority of the
census for asserting ) to hasten the performance of
act which will mmortaize that statesman who conceives
and eectuates the proper plan for its execution, and that
Legislature by whom it is adopted.
The growing fertility of those states where slavery does
not exist, well Of those where has been rooted
serves lasting monument prove that nature
smiles and lends her AID, and recompenses man for The
imaginary evil he to suffer from casting OFT those
ramnels to which habit and hereditary had bound him
HOWARD.