The Northern galaxy, and Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1843-1844, 1843-12-20


OF the Free States is in much greater
ratio even superior 10 that of the Slave
States than the Population of the Free IS
greater than that of the Slave States
The Manufactures of the Slave as crSn>
pared to those of the Free. States are as l
to 4 nearly, as ;s shown by statistics |
consider the accumulation Of Wealth in a
less ra'io.
II unpoverishes the Sell and defaces tie
loveliost features of Nature. Washington
advises friend to remove from Pennsyl
wanna to-Virginia-saying that cheap lands
in Virginia were as good as the dear lands
in Pennsylvania, and anticipating the ab-
clifton oil Slavery, would be more Prodac~
tive. His anticpations have persisted -
Slavery still exists-the wild brier and Inc
red fox arc now there the field-growth and
the Inhabitants
1t induces National Poverty. SlTes
consume more and produce less than Free
men. Hence Elusive wealth, pTodigallty
and bankruptcy. without the capabiliy OF
hearing adversely or recovering from its
influence: then come despair. dlshonor
and crime.
II isan evil TO the free laborer. by Fore
in him by the laws of competition-sup-
PLY and deman6-to work for the wages
of the slave, food and shelter. The poor,
in the Slave States. are the most destitute
native population in the United States.
It sustains the public sentiment in favor
of. the deadly afiray and the dnel-those
roles If = barbarous are,
Il is the mother and the nurse OF Lynch
law, which regard as the most horrld OF
all crimes, not even excepting parrlclde,
which ancient Legislators thought too i'm:
possible TO be ever supposed IN the legal
code. If all the blood thus she'd IN The
S outh could be gathered together, the hor-
rid image which Emmitt drew of the cru
city of his judges would grow pale in view
Of this greater terror.
Where all these evils exist. how can
Liberty, Constitutional Liberty. live? No
inlced. il cannot, AMI has not existed IN
conjunction with Slavery. We are but
n1ninal frcemen, for though born TO all
n. privileges known TO the Constitution
and the laws, written and prescriPtIve, we
have seen struck down with the leaden
hand of SIaverv,the most glorious amer
III 1t f eedom ever bore in the face Of men
" Trial by Jury-Liberty of Speech and
of the Press" The North may be Liable
to censure in Congress for freedom of
sp-ech-may lose the privileges Of The
Pust Office and the Right of Petition, and
perhaps yet be free-but we OF the land
of slavery. are ourselves slaves Alas
for the hypocritical cry of liberty and G.
q1aliiy which demagogucs sound forever
in our cars ! The Declaration oil IndcPen>
dcnce comes back from all na;lols' not IN
n1ies of triumph and solicitation, bun thun>
daring in our ears the everlasting lie-rla-
king Us inidcls in the great world of Free.
dom raising up to ourselves idols of wood
ard stone, inscribed with the name of
Deity, where the one invisible and true
God can never dwell. The blood of the
hcrocs of 76 has been shed in vain. The
;ust expectations of Hamilton and Frank
lin and Sherman and Morris and Adams
Of the North, are betrayed by the contin-
ulncc Of Slavery. The fond anticlpations
of Washington and Jefferson and Madison
and Mason of the South, have not been
realized. Tie great experiment oil Re-
publican Government has not been fairly
tested. If the Union should not be per-
pctual, nor the American name be synon-
ymous with that of liberty in all coming |
time, 10 Slavery is at once the cause the |
crime and the avcngcr
Are VIC indeed of thai vaunted Saxon
blood, which no dangers can appal, no OBJ
.tacIes obstruct,,anG shall We sit with shiv-
ering limbs and dewy feet by the running
stream with inane features and stold gaze
expecting this l1oad of evils to flow past,
leaving lie channel dry We who can
conquer all things else, shall we be here
only subdued,in loriously whispering with
white lips. There is No remedy? Are |
the fowls free in the wide heavens, the |
f,hcs secure in the depths Of the ocean, |
the beasts untrammcled in the forest wilts, |
and shall man only, man formed in the !
imase of Deity, the heir of immortality. !
b; doomed 10 hopeless servitudc? Yes
there is remedy.
There is one of four consequences to-
winch Slavery inevitably leads: A con
,nuance of The present relative position
OF the master AMI the slave, both as TO
nambers Intelligence and physical power;
o. an determination of the blacks; Or
an determination of the whites Or eman
einalion and removal,o or emancipation and
4 community of interests between the ra-
ces.
The present relative position between
the blacks and whites (even if nndlstuTb
ed BY external influences, which we cannot
hope, cannot long continue. Statistics
o. members show that iii the whole Slave
States the black increases on tine white
population. The duliest eye can also see
that the African, BY association with the
white race, has improved in intellect, and
by being transferred to a temperate cline,
and forced 10 Labor and TO throw oil the
Incidence of his native land, he is Increas-
ing in physical power; while the white,by
the same reversed laws, is retrogradlng IN
the same respects. Slavery then cannot
remain for ever as it is. That the black
race will be extermiaated seems hardly