The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1840-04-09

! tives Of thosa who are engaged IN this fatal
and unconstitutional project. There may
be some who have embarked in it without
properly considering lis consequences, ard
who are actuaied By benevolent and yirtuous
principles But, if such there are, am We.
~ certain that, Should they continue their
present course, their fellow citizens will, ere
long, course the virtues which have undone
their country"
Should be asked il there is 20 way by
which the General Government can aid the
cause emancipation answer, that it has
long been an object near my heart TO see
the whole Gifts surplus revenue appropriated
to that object. With the sanction of the
States holding the slaves, there appears TO
me to be no constitutional objection TO lis
being thus applied; embracing moi only the
colonization of chose that may be otherwise
freed, but the purchase of the freedom Of
others. By jealous prosecution of a plan
formed upon that basis, we might look for
ward 10 day, not very distant, when a
North American sun would not look down
upon slave. To those who have rejected
the plan of colonization, would ask, If they
have well weighed the consequences Of
emancipation withoutlt! How long would
the emancipaied negroes remain satisfied
with that? Would any of the Southern
States Uhe negroes armed and orsanlzed)
be able 10 resis, their claims 10 partlcipa
ton in all their political rights Would II
even stop there Would they not claim
admiiance 10 oil the social rights and pr.
vIleges OF community in which IN some IN.
s,aaces, tbev would compose the majority T!
Let those who lake pleasure in the cootem-
platlon Of such scenes as must inevitably
follow, finish out the picture.
elf ] am correct in the principles here
advanced, | support my assertion, that the
discussion on the subject Of emancipation in
the non slave. holding States, is equally in
furious 10 the slaves and their masters, and
that II has no sanction in The principles Of
the Constitution. must not be understood
10 say, that there is any thing in that instru.
ment which prohibits such discussion. |
know there is not But the man who be.
lieves that the claims which his fellow eli.
zeus have upon him, are satisfied BY adher.
ing TO The letter Of the political contract that
connects them, must have very imperfect
knowledge Of the principles upon which our
glorious Union was formed, and by which
| alone ii can be maintained. mean those
feelings of regard and affection which we're
manifested IN the first dawn of the Revolt.
ton, which induced every American to thInk
that an injury inflicted upon his fellow-cIiI-
zen, however distant bs location, was an
injury to himself; which made US, in effect,
one people, before we had any paper COZ
tract; which induced the venerable Shelby
IN the second war for independence, to leave
the comforts which his age required, to en-
counter The dangers and priyaiions incident
&c a wilderness var; which drew from the
same quarter the innumerabe baialions Of
volunteers which proceeded aud followed
him and from the banks of the dlstaut Ap
pomatox, that band ofyouthiul heroes, which
has tmmorialized The appellatlon BY which
u was distinguished. Those worthy sons
VI ta'tHOi'ol sHes htu Ho' sup u eHqIlfe
into the alleged injustice aud immortality
Of the lndisn war. It was sufficient for
Them 10 learn their fellow citizens we're IN
danger, tha, the tomahask and scalping
knife were suspended ever the heads Of the
women and children Of Ono, TO induce them
10 abandon the ease, and, 10 many instances,
The luxury and splendor oy which, from in.
fancy, they had been surrounded, 10 encoun.
ter the iatigues aud dangers Of war, amidst
the horrors Of a Canadian winter"