Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-08-09

N he uncommonly well executed. lhey are OF
,he denomination Of % dollars-letter S, dated
Sent. Q, 1896. Upon close inspection, it will
he perceived that the Cashiers name has been
traced in faint line, and then written over with
pen. |
IN Grafton delirsred at Boston before The Colo
nisatioa Society Of MasSaehussns-BY CALEB
CUSHING.
The efforts which are now making, BY the IA
natics of the North and the agitators Of the South,
"a destroy the credit and usefulness Of the Colo
niza,ion Society, will have no other effect, We
should hope, than that Of infusing fresh energy
into its members. 1t is but short time since
the Society has had fair prospect of securing the
support and CO operation Of the intelligent and
respectable planters of the South, and now is not
the time for It to relax in its exertions, or shrink
from the stupendous difficulties of the task which
!, has undertaken. Under the auspices OF such
men as are now ranked among its members, in
every section of the country, II may safely bid
defiance to calumny, aud profit BY every renew
ed agitation of the question OF slavery, to estab
lish itself still more extensively aud firmly in the
good opinion Of the people at large.
As a Fourth of July GRAFTON, this address OF
Mr.. Cushing is not fairly subject Of criticism
and we merely take notice of it on account OF the
importance Of its subject. The following extract
expresses, we sincerely believe, the sentiments
Of an overwhelming majority Of the citizens OF
the Northern States. Gaz.
"By infammatory publications elandestinely
circulated among the slaves OF Virginia or Caro-
lima, We have the faculty OF melting them to H.
surrect ion:-in doing which we commit an IN.
dictable crime, We wllully violate our oaths OF
allegiance 10 the Constitution, We outrage the
commands Of God II, acting thus in defiance
of all divine aud human laws, we succeed I'D pro-
ducins an insurrect,on OF the black inhabtants--a
servile war,-we shall TO be sure, bring the ques-
ton Of abolition to sharp and speedy crisis OF
massacre, Of blood, OF conflagration, ending it
thoroughly prosecuted, in nothing less than the
determination either of the slaves or Of their mas
tiers. Whoever can coolly contemplate such an
event, whoever can deliberately set about the
production Of it. is portent in the shape oil man.
Whoever can look TO 1t as purpose OF benevo-
lence and philanthropy, must have utterly lost the
capacity Of Distinguishing between right and
wrong, reason and error, truth and falsehood.-
Reasoning, by such conclusion, the perpetrators
Of the Massacre Of Saint Bartholenew's justified
the assassination of their Huguenot brethren,-
sacrificing that is all consideration Ut the quality
of means in the pursuit of proposed end, and
Welding up the judgment, hoodwinked aud let
tered. to the dominion Of metaphysical subtle
~. And in earnest reality, whilst the attempt to
pruduce the abolition of slavery through the
means Of instruction is manifest crime, the
scheme itself would be madness and folly.
"Let ser,ile war be kinded. BY whatever
s-encv in either of the savehodins States, and
n thai instant the inhabitants of that State would
be cons,tu,ionally entitled to the whole physl-
cal force of the Union, If need were to affect
its suppression; they would he constitutionally
entitled to il, and thew, would have 1t; they
would obtain it from the public authorities OF the
Union for the time being, if they were alive to
their honor and their duty, If they possessed
1.-THE of the frmness and patriotism exhibited by
the present government in suppressing disloyalty
among free inhabitants Of the South; and 1t they
did not obtain it from the public authorities oil
the Union, they would obtain it from the spon-
taneous sympathy Of ,her fellow citizens in
neshboring States. OF course, such an insur-
recjion must fail, and ultimately tend, as unsuc-
Ses,fuI seryile wars have generally tended. wheth
Or in ancient or modern times, to add tentold
weoht 10 the chains of the slave, while Its In
mediate effect would be to induce scene OF desc
alton. Of unavailing blootlshed, from which the
Imagination, recols with horror. trust IN heaS'
en-. for the honor of our country and our species
tina, no individual of sane understanding, who
deliberately desires and would promote ser
vile war in the Southern States, is to be founo
IN Massachusetts,"