The native American., 1839-02-09

the sovereign on the other. We reed in the an
nails Of these northern Colonies and States, where
slavery once existed, that lie transition irom serv
litude TO freedom was gradual | adore, said the
elder Adams, the idea OF gradual Additions. But
who shall decide how fast or how slowly these
Additions shall be made? But the Abotionists
Of the 18th century, some Of whose puritan ances-
TORS by their traffic in the slave trade contributed
to swell the slave population of the South whose
ancestors sought refuge from Protestant intolerance
and Protestant persecution in Catholic sanctuary
Of slave holding colony, are wiser in their gen.
Grafton. II has been reserved TO them TO discover
the great Matchess Sanative, which is to effect an
imme date cure Of the disease in the political and
social Notwithstanding Abolition. They
know no nice extremes. They stop at no conse-
quences Their remedy is the distemper Of rem
edy. For the most part, they are the Wellmean-
ing men, who at home legislate for individuals and
classes, for sumptuary laws, for exclusive prive-
ges, and selfish monopolies, and take periodical
doses of mercury sublimate, and swallow down re-
peated provocatives of canthardes" to show their
love to The poor slave. They regard 70 law With
them the Constitution is fraud, and State sover-
eighty cheat. They merge the great principles
of government the social order, the merit Of pub
lie men, in the reservoir of Abolitionism by pedg-
ing themselves to vote for no man for civil office
who is not in favor Of immediate Abolition. Are
you patriot, and have you bed in the fight for
freedom Are you statesman, and have you in
the councils Of the nation, discharged your high
trust with credit 10 yourself and glory to Your
country? Have you pleaded and defended the
great cause of civil and political right? That
again elevate you to public honor and civil dis
tincon. You are not an Aboltionist3 You must
be catechised by a se-constituted anti-savery
committee, and If you their letters missive
as they would have you, your passport throughthe
gate Of the capitol is made. On the wide sea Of
federal legislation Abolitonism must be your COM
pass, Abolltionism must be your polestar
'sFoo!s rush in where angels fear to tread,'
with unhoy hands to build up an obstruction on
the ruins of the Constitution and the fragments OF
the Union.
A late French author, who has exhibited clear
and correct insight Of our Institutions speaking Of
slavery says, that the greatest difficulty in antiquity
was that of altering the law among the moderns,
is that of altering the manners, and as far as We
are concerned the real obstacles begin where those
of the ancients left off. This arises from the cir
cumstances that among the modelns, the abstract
transient fact of slavery is fatally united to the
physical and permanent fact of color The moderns,
then, he says, after they have abolished slavery,
have three prejudices 10 contend against, " hich
are less easy to attack and far less easy TO conquer
than the mere fact Of servtude: the prejudice Of
the master, the prejudice Of the race, and the
prejudice Of color. But on the scheme Of the
Aboltionists, whose theory, in proportion as it is
metaphysicay true is practically false no obstacle
interieres between their wish and its accomplish
ment. Physical causes are nothing. Climate is
nothing The cultivation of the great staples Of
cotton, tobacco, and sugar-cane, the great sources
ofSouthern wealth isnothing. The effect ola change
in the Southern system cultivation on the trade and
commerce Of the North, is nothing. All these
are no impedments to the execution of their de-
signs.
The Abolitionists fortfy their doctrines, and pro-
woke their sympathes by a precedent drawn from
British emancipation in the West India Colonies,
between which and the mother country, leagues
of ocean roll. The precedent is false in its APP
plication. The analogy is deceptive. 1t is geo
graphically, politically, socially, morally false. If
slave population. such as that Of the South, had
existed in the 'fast anchored isle" for more than
two centuries if England had written Consti-
tuition, whichrecognized that population as persons
and property; if that country was composed of
twenty-six independent soveregntes, whose con-
situations were formed by associations Of indivl-
duals, revolvinground central government form
ed by associations Of sovereigns government full
and plenary for all purposes but perfect political
entity in regard to its foreign relations and as
between the States to adjust their differences as
members Of those state soverignties, and shorn of
all power to interfere with their municipal re-
guations; if the British Parliament by legisla-
tive Interpretation Of that written central const-
tuition had discaimed all power over slavery in all
time to come, it would not have been left to Chief
Justice Lord Mansfield, to decide that the air Of
England is too pure for slave TO breath in, nor
would the Abolitionists Of the North have had
the authority of precedent which serves more to
captivate and deceive than to illustrate. The
British Government fixed slavery in the Southern
colonies, against their consent. The British crown
negatived every measure Of their colonial assem-
bhes to prohibit the importation Of slaves. The
voice Of the philanthropic Wherefore resounded
loud and long in hel Parliament, before she abolish
ed the slave trade and in treaty with this country
she has admitted slaves TO be property, has paid
for them as such, and thus soemnly admitted the
principle of slavery.
Are there not in the hanging gardens, in the
green houses of the theorists Of the North, indigo
nous plants upon which they may try their system
Of horticulture We at the north have no slaves.
Slavery with US is abolished, butthe eternal badge
remains We have in Massachusetts one negro IN