Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-01-23

conjunction with slavery. We are but
nominal freemen, for though born to all
the privileges known to he Cons,itut on
AMI the laws, written and perspective, we
have seen struck down with the leaden
hand OF slavery, the most glorious banner
that freedom ever bore in the face of men
ctr al by lurv-Liberty Of Speech and
of the Press" The North may be liable
to cnnsnre in Congress for freedom of speech
may lose the privileges Of the Post Office
and The RICH, Of Petition, and perhaps yet
be free--hut we Of the land of slavery. are
ourselves slaves! Alas for the hypocritt-
cal cry Of Liberty and Equality which de-
magogues sound forever in our ears! The
Dec aration o. independence comes back
from all cations. not in notes Of triumph
and solicitation, but laundering in orr ears
he everlasting LIE-makng US In6eels in
the great world Of Freedom-raising up
to ourselves IDOLS Of wood and stone, in
seribed with he name Of Deity. where the
one in1ivisb'e and true God can never
dwell. The blood Of The heroes of'76 has
been she'd IN vain. The los, expectations
Of Hamilton and Franklin and Sherman
and Morris and Adam Of the North. are be-
trayed by the continuance of slavery. The
fond anticjpations of Washington and Jeffer-
son and Madison ofthe South, have not been
realized. The great experiment of Rcpub-
l;can Government has not been fairly tested.
If the Union should not be perpetual nor the
American n1me be Synonymous with that
OF liberty in all coming time, slavery is at
once the clusa, the crime, and the aven-
ger!
Are VIC indeed of that vaunted Saxon
blood, which no dangers can app1l, no Oh
s.acles obstruct, and sh1ll VIC sit with shiv-
ing limbs and dewy fe by the running
re2m wish uane features and stolii gaze.
expecting this food ofcv;ls to flow past .leav-
ING the channel dry? We who can conquer
al things else, shall we be here only subdu-
e J, inglor ously whispering with white lips,
Tnere S ~ remedy? Are toe fowls free in
the wide heavens, the fishes secure in the
depths Of the ocean, the he lists untrammell-
ed in tie forest w;lds, an shall man only.
nun formed in the image of Deity, the heir
OF mnoTallty,be doomed to hopeless servi-
tude? Yes, there is remedy.
There is one offour consequences to which
81 yery inevitably lea DIS: A continuance of
the present relative position of the master
and slave, bothas to numbers, Intelligence and
physical power: Or an exterm;nltion oftne
blacks; Or emancipation and removal, or
emancipation and community of interests
between the races.
The present relative position between the
blacks and whites (cvcn if undisturbed BY
external influences, which we cannot hope
c2nnot long continue. Statistics of numbers
show that IN the slave states the black in
c Uses OIL The white populllion. The dull
cs' eye c n also see That the African, by as
ISOLATION wi b tie white race, h1s improved
in in elect, s. BY being transferred to tenn
por7tc cline, and forced TO labor and throw
o!ft'e Incidence Of bis native lind, he is in
creas NJ in physical power; while the white,
ty the s1me reversed laws, is retrograd'nG
;n1h, SINE rcspac s. Slpvery then clnno,
rcm1in forever as it IS. Tint the black race
vii be exterm'n1tcl seems hirdly probable
from the above reflections. ma because the
treat mass Of hnmrn passions vii be in fl
vor ortlc mere IS Of the sllves I'D interim.
Pride, love of power, bl;nl avarcc and many
other pass ons are for il, and against it oaly
fear in the opposite scole. We are forced,
therefore, II be conclus CT that the slave
reputation must incre ,sc til there is no re-
treat but in extern nation of The Whites
Athens. Spnt,, S'cly and Rome nearly,
II1yii in modern times, did fall by servsle
wars. | have shown elsewhere that the slave
~ of tie blacks in the modem is more dan
Gcro"s than the sllvcry o. the whites
in he cncicnt sys EN-; tn n the in
tell;gcat slaye was incorporated into
tee high case Of qutn1lm masters, an Ger
nal safety-vll,e, wl'ch vet did not save
ttom explosions eminelly disastrous.
The negative Of the second proposition,
then, establishes the third, unless we avail
ourselves of The la INSTRUMENTATION. II
my reasoning and facts be correct, there is
not sane nnnd in all The South who would
not agree with me, that If we can he saved
from the frs, named evils, by all means
emancipate. Emincipatson is entirely s!fi'.
Sparta aud Athens turned the slaves by
thousands mo freedom with safety, who
fought bruvcy Tor their common country.
Daring the Revolution many eman ,ipated
s a Q did good serve in the cause OF lib
esy. Ne learn from Mr.. Quincy aad otncr
sources TO be rcilrd upon. tht 3rlttl 81
/ Yves, India emancipation has been entirely
successful, and productive OF none OF those
evils which We're SD periinacious'y tnreto'd
by interested pto-slavery men. The BrI,
tlsh'have regiments ofblack men who make
fine soldiers proteclors, not enemies, at
the empire. But ab we AL reoIy. not up.
on sound a 9r.o-5 reasoning only. out IA
Their upon actual experience. There are 10
the United STATES, by The last census, 1885,
265 fee blacks; l60.75S OF whom are in
the free, the remainder in the slave States.
There are also PASS. l45 slaves-so that
in fact about one sixth of the whole black
race in America are already free, No dam
ger or evil in consequence has ensued from
the residence OF these 3S6,265 freed men
among us. Who then will beso absurd as
to contend that the liberation oil the five
six.hs will endanger the safety or happi-
ness of the whites2 repeat then that
Emancipation is entirely safe.
IL L. L. Al