The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-04-11

"Equal and e9acl ju4Rce to all men Of 7pl,at.
eUer StGte or PERSUASION" JrFFLRsoN.
| love my country. | glow with indig-
nation when | see the interests of that
country sacrificed at the shrine of party
luminosity, or proud aristocracy. No man
thinks more highly of patriotism than I !;
but, when my rights are gone, have no
country. Patriotism consists in asserting
and defending the rights and liberties Of
ones country.
When Great Britain treated us as a free
people, the warmest friends of the colonies
wished not for separation from the parent
country but, when their rights were in
vaded, they tore asunder the bands of
union, and declared themselves of right
free and Independent people. They as
serted the principle which ought ever to
be held sacred,-Ihat government IS form
ed for the benefit the governed. That the
duty OF allegiance, and the right of protec-
ton, are reciprocal.
The people of this enlightened age and
country cannot he made to believe that
they are bound in allegiance to an imagin-
airy something, called government, from
which they have nothing to hope, and eve
ry thing to fear. This is the doctrine of
the holy alliance, or of Turkish despot.
1t is not as a favor that the people of the
north ask protection--they demand it as a
right; and they demand equal rights. But
that the citizens of the non slave-holding
States are not placed on an equal footing
IN regard to their rights with the slave
holding States, is evident on the slightest
inspection. | have, in a former number.
shown that the slaves of the south, as such
cannot be considered as citizens, but mere
ly as a species of property. The slave
States have the privilege of giving this
property an influence in representation
The other States are denied this privilege.
Where then is the equality in the enioy-
ment of rights ? Obviously, there is none.
What is this butan aristocracy?
have said there is no more reason why
property in slaves should be taken into ac-
count, in apportioning the number of Rep
resentatlveS, than that the property of far
mers, merchants, or manufacturers should
be estimated for the same purpose. In
general there is much less reason. No
one pretends to doubt the Importance of
the two first. Let those who doubt the
Importance of the last, call to mind the
time of the late war with Great-Britain .
when the government, being urged by i'm
perious necessity, encouraged the multi
plication of manufactures and even then,
for want of supply to enable them to full
fiji its contracts with the Indians, were
driven to the humiliating expedient of per-
uniting the importation of blankets fabri-
Gated by their enemies.
Thousands, depending on the good faith
OF government embarked all their capital
IN manufacturing. But what was the re-
turn! Let the present condition of the
woollen manufacturers, deserted at their
utmost need, and nearly or entirely ruined
by deliberate acts of Legislation. answer.
Yet, this is only one of the evil effects of
slave representation; for it is the south
which has always been arrayed against
every attempt to protect national industry.
But what is the support which the slaves
render government They add nothing to