The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-10-26
tFor The IIIimingfomian.l
NEGRO SLAVERY.--N. /.

NEGRO sLAVERY.--No. T.
TO THE CITIZENS OF DELAWARE.
In calling your attention to the moment
Gus and delicate subject of negro slavery, the
writer Of the subsequent essays, tho arow-
edly opposed to the system, has no disPos-
ton to treat with severity any OF his fellow
citizens, whose opinions may differ from his
own, or whose practice may be at variance
with the principles which lie has been in
duced to espouse. His object is truth, and
motive the cause of humanity, ,--not that par
tial humanity which seeks the exatation OF
one race or portion of our species at the eX-
pense Of injustice to another. The cnlight-
ened philanthropst does not forget the rights
Of fthe claimant in his sympathy for the slave;
nor deploring the cruelty of avarice, over
look the frequent blindness of zeal.
The preludices, if not antipathies, which
the distinction between slave holding and
non slave holding districts, have generated
and fed, must be considered as one Of the
greatest national evils, with which the u
nited States are afflicted. II any sections OF
our country, are, more deeply than others,
interested in the removal of these prejudi-
ces, those where negro slavery is tolerated
are they.--They compose minority in the
federal compact, and their natural progress
is a relative diminution. To them the dan
gers, appalling as they arc admitted to be,
of an extensive slave population, directly and
chiefly apply.
The people of colour, held in servitude
within the United States, have become an
important part OF our population Their
numbers and physical force are rapidly in
creasng.
A million and half Of people, in the bo-
som Of our country, Injured, if not to the tao
tics at least to the hardships and privations
of war; who can hardly be expected to we"
the established government in any other
light than as system of oppression, who
are accustomed to hear the achievements o
those who have conquered or bled in detenc'
of their liberty, extolled to the skies, ant
vet find the bitter draught of personal ant
hereditary slavery their own hopeles por
ton; and who have little to lose by any con
yulsons of the political world; constitute
cloud of too awful magnitude to be regard
ed by the statesman with Indifference, or b
the philanthropst, without the most anxiou
forebodings Circumstanced as we are, 1t
time to repudiate the chickering's of party
and cultivate sentiments OF conciliaton.
governments, as we'll as i'll families, strengt
depends upon union, and union on mutus
confidence and reciprocal condescenslons
When truth, and not victory, is the obJet
Of discussion, diversity of opinion, or yariet
of practice, furnishes no rational ground
jealousy or ayerson.-With minds not blint
ed by passion, the truth is often elected Z
the collision of opposite sentiments.
There is probably no subject, either the
retic or practical, which more imperious
demands the serious attention OF the peoP
of these United States, than that OF neg
slavery,-none that presents strong
claim to the exercise of the clearest unde
standings and finest feelings among us, TO
vert the dangers, or to mitigate the evi
which this system leads in its tram. -
subject in its practical effects, is forced up
us-the cloud is thickening with the lap
oftimc, and it is wisdom's part to disarm
of its lightning before it bursts upon 0
heads.
This subject presents several questions
vital Importance which merit serious
patient investigation.
LIST. What is Negro Slavery
I'd. What is the tenure by which they
helde
81, What are the consequences, IN ress