Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1844-04-04
EKN = re From the NssO York Tribune.
Blavery.-tIle EVfI.-tTne Remedy.

cDsyction 4 the minds q the people that these
Indeed, tremble for my country, when reflect
that God is just that His justice cannot sleep for
ever that, considering numbers, nature and natur
al means only, revolution of the wheel offortune,
exchange of situation, is among possible events:
il may become probable by supernatural interfer-
ence The Almighty has no attribute which can
take side with US in such contest.-JefersOn
Notes on VTginiG. @
Thomas Jefferson rever thought of the absurdity
of debating the question whether Slavery be evil
nor was he indulgent to the delusive idea that it
would be perpetual. He reduced the subject to
Its certain elements the master must lberate the
slave, or the slave will exterminate the MASTER
This conclusion is not weakened by the history of
the past. The same color in the ancient Repub-
lies enabled the State to use emancipation a SAT-
ty-vave: yet, notwithstanding the thorou gh ANAL
gamation Of the freed man, with the free born SER
vile wars nearly extinguished by violence the no.
biest nations Of antiquity while no man dare say
that slavery was not the secret of their un-
timely ruin. But is &c His justice" should sleep
forever, and the tragedy awfuly predicted should
never occur, still more we regard slavery as the
greatest evil that ever cursed a nation.
Slavery is an evil to the slave by depriving near
ly three millions Of men of the best gift of God to
man-liberty. stop here-this is enough of it.
self to give US full anticipation of the long cata
logue Of human wo, and physical and intellectual
and moral debasement which follows in the wake
ofSlavery. 1929
Slavery is an evil to thu master 1t is utterly
subversive of the Christian religion. 1t violates
the great law upon which that religion is based,
and on account of which it vaunts its pre-emi-
nance.
1t corrupts our offspring by necessary association
with an abandoned and degraded race, migrating in
the young mind and heart I'll the vices and none
of the virtues.
Il is the Of incidence and destructive of all
industry, which in times past among the wise has
ever been regarded as the first friend of religion
morality and happiness. The poor despse labor be-
cause slavery makes it degrading. The mass of
Shareholders are idlers.
1t is the mother of ignorance. The system of
Common Schools has not succeeded in a single
Slave State. Slavery and Education are natural
enemies. In the Free States one in SO over 81
years is unable to read and write : in the Slave
States one in 1913 is unable to write and read
1t is opposed to literature even in the educated
classes. Noble aspirations and true glory depend
upon virtue and good to a man. The conscious in
justice OF slavery hangs mill -stone about the
neck of the of genius and will not let them up
1t is destructive Of all mechanical excellence.
The Free States build ships and steam cars for the
nations of the world-the Slave States import the
handles for their axes-these primitive tools of the
architect. The educated population will not work
at all-the uneducated must work without silence,
and of course without skill. If there be IA given
IL
Of necessity developed in proportion whole
or part of the population are educated. In the
SlaveStatcs the small portion educated is inert.
1t is antagonistic to the Fine Arts Creations of
beauty and sublmty the embodim ,nts If the
souls imaginings the fountain must surely be pure
and placid whence these glorious and immortal and
lovely images reflected. Liberty has cycr5een
the mother of the Arts
1t retards population and wealth. Compare New
York and Virginia. Tennessee and Ohio-States Of
equal natural advantages and equal ages The
wealth Of the Free States is in much greater ra-
ito, oerior TO that OF the Slave States than
the population of the free is greater than that of
the Slave States. The Maaufactur rs of the Slave
as compar I'd to those Of the Free States are as to
a nearly as is shown by statistics I consider the
accumulation of Wealth in less ratio.
p II impoverishes the soil and defaccs the lovlicst
features Of Nature. Washington advises friend to
remove from Pennsylvania to notwithstanding that
cheap lands in Wiz sinia were as good as the dear
lands in Pennsylvania, and anticipating the aboi-
ton of Slavery would be more productive. His an
tcipations have parished-Slayery still cxists-the
wild brier and the red iox now there the field
growth and the inhabitants
1t induces national poverty. Slaves consume
more and produce less than Freemen. Hence lu-
sive wealth, prodjgali.y and bankruptcy, without
the capability Of bearing adversely of recovering
from its influence then come despair, dishonor and
crime.
1t is an i'll to the free la5orer, by forcing him by
the law of competition-supply and demand-to
work for the wages of the slave, food and shelter
'hs poor, in the Slave States, the most dest tue
naive population of the United States.
II sustain the public sentiment in favor of the
dcaoy array md the duel-those relics of barber
Gus age
IL IS the mother All the nurse of Lynch laac,
winch lregard as the mot horrid of all crimes,
not even excepting parricide, which a,cient loois
lators though too imdossibe to be ger supposed
in the legal code. If all the blood thu, Sled in
the South could be gathered together, the hcrrid
image which Emmit drew of the cruelty of his ladp
would grow pale in view of this greater terror
Where all these evils, how can Liberty, Consti-
tutional Liberty, live No indeed, it cannot, and
has not existed IN conjunction with Slavery. We
are but nominal freemen. for though born to all the
privileges known to the Constitution and the laws,
written and prescrptive, we have seen struck down
with the leaden hand of Slavery, the most glorious
banner that freedom 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 speech-may lose the priv
ileges of the Post Office and the Right of Petition,
and perhaps yet ebb free-but we of the land of
Slavery, are ourselves slaves Alas for the hypo-
critical cry Of liberty and equality which dema-
gogus sound forever in our ears The Declaration
of Independence comes back from all nations, not
IN notes Of triumph and solicitation but thunder
ing in our ears the everlasting ie-making us Inf
del IN the great world of Freedom-raising up to
ourselves idols Of wood and stone, inscribed with
the name of Deity, where the invisible and true
God can never dwell. The blood of heroes of '76
has been shed in vain. The Just expectations OF
Hamilton and Franklin and Sherman and Morris
and Adams of the North, ara betrayed by the con-
tinuance of Slavery. The fond anticpations of
Washington and Jefferson and Madison and Mason