The Northern galaxy, and Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1843-1844, 1844-01-31

Dor will be substituted for slave labor. Slave
property as 1t depreciates in value will be
disposed of-and If this is done BY degrees
there will be no sudden wreck Of private for
tune, nor individual distress. The negro will
become habituated gradually to a state of
freedom and thus the process of cmancipa-
ticn will be shorn of its terrors. To cur
Southern friends the idea of immediate, un-
qualified and universal emancipation is ap
palling. You and may see no danger in it
but we may fail to convince them much less
can we control them in a matter so vitality
connected as they regard this to be with the
welfare and perhaps the existence of their
social union. They will upon this subject
follow the dictates of their own Judgment
The true course of the friends of emancipa-
ton is to disarm the subject of its terrors.-
Let them see that the institution is destined
to its eud not by violence and CONFUSION but
by that steady, sure and safe process by which
one generation succeeds to another and the
institutions Of one age are supplanted by
those of the next The difficulty has been
that extravaganza and folly on one side has
begotten extravaganza and folly on the 9TH
er. Ultra abcltiouism threats of disunion
and an avOwed disregard of the provisions of
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US together have irrilated, alarmed and ex-
asperated the people of the South Their
course has been everything but Discreet
They have met this foolish spirit with an
Feasibility and hOt-headrd indiscretion
which have given just ground Of offence, and
tended strongly to weaken that strong attach
ment to the Union and to them which it has
always been the pride of the people of the
fah H.. L.
to which they cling with so much pertinacity
has done more to make ultra political abol-
tionists than every thing else. At the same
time il was never worth straw as a security
to the South. 1t has been a hone of conten-
ton perpetuate source of irritation. Con-
fictiDg as it obviously does with the provis-
ions of the constitution it has placed them in
a false and untcnable position-it has exhib-
tied them as ready to trample upon that sa-
cred instrument and thus weaken the arsu-
ment which they would draw from it in their
own defence.
am happy to say that better spirit is
beginning to prevail with gentlemen from the
South. They are prepared to see the rule
abrogated. 1t will be done, and when it is
done they Will find themselves infinitely the
gamers. They will be restored to more
respectable, and Il more tenable position
They may then take their stand upon the
ramparts of the constitution. Those ram
parts | can assure them will nor be assaiIed
We shall discuss the subject of slavery as
much and as often as we please, but we shall
leave the control over the subject where it
constitutionally belongs, and we shall leave
them to the management Of their own dumes- !
tic concerns in their own way.
The right of free discussion we shall claim !
and we shall not surrender il. We shall bring
the force of argument and the force of pub /
lie opinion to hear upon the institution We I
shall appeal 10 their moral sense, their hu- /
mainly and their patriotism TO aid in cradica-
ting an institution so offensive TO the spirit of
the age in which we live and so dangerous to |
the peace and prosperity of our common
country-or it IL can not be eradicated to CO.
operate in mitigating its evils. Let them !
prepare to meet us on this ground, discarding /
the idle purpose of sitting discussion and
throwing away the whole puerile apparatus
of rules and gags intended to silence the voice
of the representations of a free people or Of
that people themselves.
Atthe same time let the people Of the north
consider that Slavery is so interviewer with
the very texture of Society at the South that
to remove it is a work of time and prudence.
and that all Incorporate and i'll timed zeal
serves only to rivet the letters as it drives the
southern people to more energetic & rigorous
measures in what they regard as necessary |
selfdefence.