Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-11-29
Hon. DR.. Duncan's letter to his Ohio
Constituents.

"There is no man living, perhaps, who
is more deadly hostile to slavery than |
, am. My feelings, my education the cir
cumstances that have surrounded me
through life, together with my principles
of what believe to constitute the natural
and political rights Of man--all conspire
to make me abhor it as one Of the greatest
evils that exist on the face of the earth.
Yes. greater in its moral effects and cor
rupting tendencies than all other human
evils put together. It's not only moral
and political evil within itself, or intrinsi-
caly so of the darkest and most damning
character, but in all its bearings and effects
calculated to produce the most fatal effects
on both the moral AID political institutions
of our country. 1t is an evil that has,
does now, and will in all time to come while
it exists, involve in it, as well its present
possession, as in future operation, crime,
fraud theft, robbery, murder, and death.
"For the truth Of what ! say as 10 its
present effects upon the institutions ofour
country, have only toreier you to view
of the slave states of our Union, and com
parison between the relative condition Of
the Improvements Of them and the free
states. You see the free states happy and
nourishing 10 the admiration and astonsh-
ment Of all who see them. Public inn
proyement and private property are swift
and head and head in the race, while on
the other hand poverty, lean and hungry
steriIity, and squalid wretchedness seem
to coverthe face of the land, in many parts
where slave institutions have a residence
Cross the line that separates the free from
the slave states or stand upon it and look
across the former, you will see compare
lively all life, all happiness, all prosperi-
ty, both public and private, but turn your
eyes over the latter and survey it, every
thing material, Except few of the veal
thy proprietary bearing the impress Of
poverty and diapition, all looks as if pes
thence and famine had been making their
sad innovation. The anger of God and
the vengeance Of Heaven seems to rest up
on every thing upon which you cast your
eyes. Every prospect seems to be with .
cred and wilered by tho frown and disap-
probation of avenging justice and viola
ted humanity. In short, almost every
every prosperity, public and
private, seems 10 be sick'ning and dying
from the corruptng and the corroding ef-
fects of slavery. But the curse be on the
head of those who sustain such an nsttu-
ton"
Above, we have spread before our fel-
ow-citizens portion Of letter, written
a short time before the recent election in .
Ohio, by the successful LocoGoco candidate
for Congress, from the Cincinnati District.
1t is document of fearful import and we
know not at which the most to marvel,
whether the audacity of a man who dares
thus publicly TO stigmatise a large portion
of his fellow-citizens or the superlative i'm
pudcnce and mendacity displayed by those
who in the face ofsuch unequivocal evidenc
would have the effrontffy to insult an en-
lightened community with claiming such
men to be friends Of Southern interests,
and denouncing their opponents as aboli-
tionists. If DR.. Duncan is not an aboli-
zionist, then language has not its meaning
and knaves and fools are honest men.
But let us look little more closely into
this Ohio election-this most glorious Van
Buren, victory, this splendid triumph of
democracy, this achievement never to be
forgotten in the annals Of Locofocoism.
The public probably are not fully acquain-
ted with its merits, and the locofoco or
gans show most censurabe remssness
in making the citizens Of the South ac-
quainted with them. As it is more than
probable an inadvertent oversight, on the
part Of these yigiant sentnels Of South
ern veal, they will probably feel much
indebted to US for the light afforded.
The Aboltionists Of Ohio number, it is
estimated, several thousand votes. The
governor of Kentucky made requisition
on Vance, the Wing governor of Ohio,
for the person of one Mahan, indicted by
a grand jury as kidnapper. This so
highly incensed the abolitonists, that the
locofocos eagerly seized the opportunity,
and determined TO turn it to good account
in the pending election. Accordingly
Morris, the fou-mouthed U. S. Senator
from Ohio, came out with all bis viruence
against the Wings, denouncing them as
the friends of slavery, and calling upon
the abolitionsts TO rally, as Vance and his
slavery friends must be put down. He
spent much Of his time violently election
eering among the abolltionists and on abb
clifton grounds. DR.. Duncan came out
with his manifesto, a copy ola portion of
which is placed at the head Of this article
"a manifesto which should cause his
name to be held in perpetual execration