Macon intelligencer., 1840-06-27

Shall be accused of want Of leellng IoEtne /
slaves, by these remarksa further examna- |
ton will elucidate the matter. 1 take it for |
granted that no one will say, that either the |
Government Of the United States, or those OF
the non-slaveh0lding States can interfere in |
any way with the right OF property in the slaves
Upon whom then are the misguided and pre- |
tended friends Of the slaves to operate? II must |
be either on the governments of the slave-hold- !
ing States. the individuals who hold them, or |
upon the slaves themselves. And what are to |
be the arguments what the means by which |
they are 10 influence the two first OF theSe2 Is |
there man vain enough TO go TO the land OF
Madison of Macon and of Crawford, and tell |
them that they either do not understand the prin-
cples of the moral and political rights OF man, |
OF that understanding, they disregard theml
Can they address an argument to the interest or |
fears of the enlightened population Of the slave
States, that has not occurred TO themselves
thousand and thousand times To whom, |
then, are they to address themselves, but TO the
slaves And what can be said 10 them that will |
not lead to an indiscriminate slaughter of every
age and sex, and ultimately 70 their own de-
structionl Should there be an incarnate devil,
who has imagined with appreciation such ca
taStrophe to his felow-citi2ens as have de-
scribed let him look to the result to those for
whose benefit he would produce it. Particular
sections Of the country may be laid waste, all
the crimes that infuriated man, under the inhu-
ence of all the black passions of his nature can
commit, may be perpetrated for season. the
tide Of the oceanwi moi more certainly change,
| than that the food of horrors will be arrested,
and turned upon those who may get tim mo-
! tion
Z will not stop to inquire into the motives of
those who are engaged In this fatal and uncon-
/ stitutonal project. There may be some who
have embarked in it without properly consider
4 ing its consequences, and who are actuated by
| benevolent and virtnous principles. Buff such
/ fharn / onrfqinsf that should fbPVs
continue their present course, their fellow-citi-
| Zens will ere long, curse the virtues which
| have undone their country"
l. Should | be asked IL there is no way by
which the General Government can aid the
lcause Of emancipation, answer lhatit has long
been an object near my heartlto see the whole
Of its surplus revenue appropriated 10 thai
oblect.s With the sanction Of the States holding
4 the slaves there appears to be no constitutional
| objection TO its being thus applied; embracing
not only the colonization of those that may oth-
erwise be freed, but the purchase Of the freedom
of others. BY a jealous prosecution Of plan
formed upon thar basis, we might LOOK forward
| to day not very distant, when North Ameri-
/ can sun would not look down upon slave
To those who have rejected the plan OF coloni-
zation, would ask, IL they have well weighed
the consequences of emancipation without u ~
How long would the emancipated negroes re-
main satisfied with that2 Would any Of the
Southern States then Ohe negroes armed and
organizedl be able to resist their claims 70 par
Il ticipation in all their political rights? Would
Ii even stop there2 Would they not claim adj
1nitiance 10 all the social rights and privileges
4 of a community in which, in some instances,
i they would compose the malority2 Let those
| who take pleasure in the contemplation OF such
scenes as must inevitably follow, finish out the
| picture
"If am correct in the principles here ad-
/ vanced support my assertion, that the discus
tcson fhas M or,tan in The
slaveholding States, is equally injurious 70 the
slaves and their masters and that il has no sane
| tion in the principles Of the Constitution. 4
must not be understood 10 say that there is any
thing in that instrument which prohibits such
discussion | know there is not. But the man
who believes that the claims which his fellow
citizens have upon him, are satisfied by adhering
10 the LETTER of the political contract that con
| meets them, must have very imperfect knoWi-
| edge of the principles upon which our glorious
Union was formed, and by which alone II can
be maintained. lmean those feelings OF regard
and affection which were manifested in the first
! dawn of the revolution which induced every
American to think that an injury inflicted upon
his fellow-citizen, however distant his location,
was an injury to himself; which made us in eff
i feet, one people, before we had any paper con-
tract; which induced the venerable Shelby, in
the second war for independence, to leave the
| comforts which his age required, to encounter
the dangers and privations incident to awilder-
ness war: which drew from the same quarter
the innumerable battalions of volunteers which
preceded and followed him and from the banks
| of the distant Appomatox, that band of youthful
i heroes, which has immoralized the appellation
| by which it was distinguished. These worthy
sons of immortal sires did not stop to enquire
into the alleged injustice and immortality of the
Indian war. II was sufficient for them TO learn
i their fellow-citzens were in danger; that the
| tomahawk and scalping knife were suspended
| over the heads of the women and children of
| Ohio, to induce them TO abandon the ease, and
| in many instances, the luxury and splendor by
which, from infancy, they had been surrounded
to encounter the fatigues and dangers Of war,
amidst the horrors of Canadian winter"
Thus it will be seen that in the very speech
in which his traducers pretend to find evidence
/ of his abolitit nism, General Harrison denoun-
ced even the discussion of the subject of ernanci
patton as equally injurious to the slaves and
their masters and that il has no sanction in the
/ principles of the Constitution"
We now call attention to the following plain,
fIstraight forward letter from General Harrison,
and ask the people of Mississippi 70 contrast the
i open, fearless avowal ot ms devotion % the
i rights of the South, with Mr.. Van buren's
Il eduivccation and double-dealing on the same
II subject Recollect that Mr: Van BuTen sald -
Tqcold mott from The lights noaO before nse feel
o,,,ssIf safs u, that Congress does mo-
ossess he poageY of Interfering aoith bOlishtg
Sqogera, In ths District of Columbia.
And this opjnion, he has recently declared is--
g Ma onI, StiU entertained By him, bit has been
greatly strengthened By subsequent eapsr'eHss and
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