Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-06-27

The most malignant and immitigablo hatred bu
ever since he found, from his position beior
he nation, that Southern votes might be Of ser
1 vice to him, he has affected to feel towards
Southern institutions the most unboundcd love
and admiration.
i What is true Of Mr.. Van Buren, in respect tt
this matter is equally true of his Secretary o
the Navy, Mr.. Paulding, Years ago, ere Mr.
r. began TO indulge asReatons for poltlca
promotion, there was in the whole Union ne
bltteror and more malignant revlIer OF the
Shareholders than he He wrote letters and
books with the view Of throwing the greatest
Iodum upon The South. For instance, in vol.
ume written after an excursion through the
South, he drew the annexed picture as a sPecl,
men OF what was to be seen in that section OF
the country:
"Ihe sun was shining out very hot, and in
turning an angle Of the road we encountered
the following group: first little cart drawn
by one horse, in which five orSix half naked
black children were tumbled like pigs together.
The cart had no covering, and'th9y seemed to
have been actually broileE to sleep. Behind
the cart marched three BLACK women, with
head, neck and breasts uncovered, and without
shoes or stocking; next came three men, bare
headed, half naked, and chained together lcthI
an OF chain. Last otall came a white man
4 white man. Frank Ion horseback, carving
pistols in his belt, and who, as we passed him,
lad the impudence to look US in the face with.
out blushng. | should like to have seen him
hunted by ood-hounds. At a house where
We stopped a little further on, we learned that
le had bought these miserable beings in Ma
yland, ard was marching them in this man,
er TO some OF the more Southern States
hame onthe State of Maryland! say-andI
hame on the State of Virginia! and every
late through which this wretched cavalcade
as permitted to pass Do they expect that
lch exhibitions will not dishonor them in the
yes o! Strangers, however they may be recon h
led to them by education and habit?n h
This description the author permitted toI .
and for years, but, at length, when he began :,
look loI political eXaltation and to deem the
vor OF the Southern people necessary to the Il
talment Of his hopes, he published second =
itIon OF his "Letters from the South" and, in j.
at edition, omitted the passage cited above as :,
I'll as various others and substituted a long "
'quIsItIon IN tdror of slavery, part of which,
Ids as follows: a
'Ihe second cause Of disunion will be found, II
the slave population Of the South, ,cbenever .
misguided, or wiruIly malignant zeal Of !"
advocates OF emancipation shall institute. "
II one day doubtless aOHi, crusade aganst|ia
constitutional rights Of the slave owners, =; =,
sending among them ianatical agents and u
atlcal tracts, calculated to render the slaves !"
affected and the situation Of the master and ~
family dangerous; when appeals shall be y,
de under the sanction Of religion to the =,
slons oil these Ignorant and excited blacks, y,
cuIated and intended to rouse their worst
most dangerous passions, and to place the .,
y lives OF their masters, their wives, and f.
idren, IN the deepest peril; 10hen societies II
J0rmed IN the sister States for the avowed ~
pose of virtually destroying the value of ~ ~
principal item in the property o. south W y,
planter; when 1t becomes a question moot n
IN the legislatures of the states or ofthe -
eral government, whether the rights of the -
'ter over his slave shall be any longer re- " y,
niZed or maintained, and when it is at last o
tent that nothing will preserve them but d
esslon, then will certain ofthe States of our 49,
utiluI constellation "start madly from their ~
eres and jostle the others in their wild ca. CT
:. "
UGH things need no comment. What conf ~
&c, we ask, can the people of the South re. =
in President and Secretary, who contn- "a
to war with all their might against the in -
ltion of slavery as long as they aspired to -, -
ularity only in the North but effected to be al al
most ardent friends of slavery lust as soon II. III
hey saw motive interest or changing their ". VI,
tion? 10
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