Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1840-03-30
A Northern l,an riM Southern Principlcs.

n ANOfWcFH JhdH UNH .SOuttcrh ITlRc7pcS.
Mr.. Tappan, the Van Buren, Senator from
Ohio ia brother OF the celebrated Arthur aud Lew
is Tappan, oi Abolition memory,) lately delivered
speech IN the Senate, more decidedly hostile to the
Aboliionlss, than any we lave recently sen from
amy man representing the MN slavehoJing region
We were surprised, as well as gralifed when we
read this speech, ecause we bad seen statements
which led Us to believe that Senator Tappan had
been as violent an AboItiopisl as his brothers Arthur
and Lews-"ho, by the way, have been themselves
wonderfully silent on the subject for year or two
past. That surprise, however, no longer exists II
is shown, by The indubitablc testimony. thai,
Senator Tappan is now piayjng a part, just as his
iren Van Buren,, the Missouri Restr ctionst is to
oPer0fc upon NE South. 1t is a part of the "a ne,
which these desperate politicians are engaged in to
wheedle the Soulh by loud professions of devotion to
its rights, which, how, yer. when it was not THEN in
tcres 10 wear mask, they. lost no opportunity of
ass,ng.
This Mr.. Benjamin Tappan, of Oho, is the au.
dior ola book, in the Con .ressonal library cal
ted IaPPan'S Rrports in the Ist volume Of which
sthe case OF Barrett Il free negro rs Jarvis, tried he
fore himself in 1918. he being then President Judge
"i the Court Of Common Pleas of the g h circuit in
Ohio. ln his Opinion, 10 that case he spoke of the
negroes, as trace OF men who have been for ares
the rictims Of bloody and unrclcnGag ararice and
who are bowed down to the ground and froJden nm
der foot, by oppression so wide and so enormous,
that no man Can for moment niemplate their sill .
uaiion without the dcepes, commiseralion and hor
ror-conmseratsn for their sufferincs, and horror
at The immense masso Of teickelness and crime ch;ch
holds them an satjcct,on." He went on at Length to
palllae the doctrine Of AMALGAMATION :;
declaring that he knew Of mo principle of ethics or
law. which would forbid a descendant of the fair
haired aud ruddy Teulonc from marrying the swar
thy native OF Africa - though, he admitted that
good taste and refinement" might forbid the con-
nection: And he added ave live under govern
'nent which recognizes the natural equality of man,
which, by a fundamental law, has preserved Us from
The dangers AMI the curse Of slavery; and, as ma
gstrate in free commonwealth, l will never sane
lion any doctrine, which directly or indirectly contra
sencs that principle hch our government rests
that all men are created free aud elnal"-Prcsely
The modern Abolition slang
But still further: Mr.. james Collier of Steuben.
vile Oh,, (~hcre Mr.. Tappan resides,) declares
that Mr.. Tappan told him that he had declined ae-
cepung an Office in an Abolition Society, because
he was opposed TO their moderate measures II told
them, (sad he) if they wanted $500 TO purchase am
mun't'on, 10 put into The hands Of the blacks tina,
they might free themselves. l would give them the
money !" Mr.. Collier then put a case to this Mr.
Tappan Suppose, (said he,) tina, the county Of
Brooke, opposite to us in Virginia, contained dense
population OF slaves that they should rise up aims,
her as'ers and that you should be standing with
your ne'ghbors side of the river and see them
marching down on the other side, burning and de
suoying every ding within their reach and nur
drrnc without distinction men, women and children
and that our friends and acquain:ances should
call on for assistancc-would Won moi On
No, by c. said he, Il would not, and would dis.
nherit anv child have. that would go :"
Judge llalloek Ohio, de clares that Mr. Senato,
larpan "habnually denounced slavery and slave.
holders HIS expressions were very s,rong-such
as that the slaves ought 10 rise and cut their mas
tet's thtoas-f they should rise he would NOT aid
IN subduing them, but would rather aid them
&c.
u. Wells, Esq. of Steubenville, in a letter to a
member OF Congress, says-.There can be no facts
more notorious than the horrd, savage declarations
over aud over repeated by Judge Tappan on the
SUBJECT OF slavery; and he goes 10 denv that the
Wings are identified with the Aboliionisrs in ,ha,
State. at is a wellknown fact that the Aboluion
isis, MS sec, party. not more exclusivr, CON
necied with one political pa,ly than The other"
james Means Esq Van. Buren, man of S,eu.
bcnvlIle, says: Il consider him Jndse TappanA
Me 'oors Kind Of an AbOiitionst and hold, 10 doc.
u'nes the most mischIevous and absurd on The
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