Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-03-05
the lice rites of people, and make them
inYincihle nd i'm

sh0 iAe> Vi people, ana make them
invincible and immortal.
DO gentlemen take the absurd position.
that one hundred and eighty thousand freed
men could enslave kentucky? West India
emancipation proves thatthe great majority
OF freed men could be employed economical
iy IN the same offices at small wages, which
they now fill; with perhaps more ease and
safety than now exist. But should thew
prove turbulent, for which there would be
no cause, and which no man in his senses
believes would happen, and were disposed
TO indulge IN that Wanting spirit, which to-
day has SO powerfully infected US; with
five thousand such troops as those have
the homer to command, TO whom gentlemen
have been pleased TO allude in manner
so complimentary at my expense, would
undertake 10 drive from the State the as
sembled one hundred and eighty thousand
III arms. They further tell US, with most
reyerential gravity, that God has design
ed some men for the decree: it is better
that the blacks saould be sIa. es than the
whites" This proposition, which de-
nounce as utterly false, passes away before
a summers sun.
SHALL admit, merely for the sake of ar
gumenf, that some men always have, and
possibly viii perform mental offices for
the more fortunate. Let the law of Nature
or of God, have its undisturbed action
lie the performance of those officers b.
! voluntary on the part of servants, and that
beautiful harmony by which the highest
intellect IS united, by successive inferior
links to the loves: mind, will never be dis
turbed. The sensitive and finely organiz-
ed and intellectual, viii gradually rise
from service to command; the stold, the
protligate, the insensible, and coarselv or
ganz d will sink into their places; the law
of God and enlightened freedom will still
be preserved, and the greatest good to the
greatest number be secured forever. But
when by municipal law, and not by the
law o. illness which is the law of Nature.
not regarding the distinctions Of morals,
mind or body. whole classes are doomed TO
seryitude, when the intellectual. the sensi-
tive, the foolish, the good, the bad, the re-
fined. the degraded. are all depressed to
one level. never more 70 rise forever; then
comes evil, n thing but evi-like as from
damned up waters or pent up streams floods
and explosions come slowly, but come at
last-so Nature mock. with te mporary desc
latIon at the obstacles man would opnose
to her progress, and at length. moves on
once more IN all the untrammalled yicor
aud unladILg loneliness which, from eterni-
ty was decreed. That the black IS inferi-
or to the white. readily allow; but that
vice may depress the one, and rtue by
successive generations elevate The other,
till the two races meet on one common
level. / am also firmly canVinead Medern
science III the breeding anu culture -f ssshar
animals than man. has most fully proved
this fact, while the ablest observers Of man
himself, all allow, that mental and moral
and physical Developments transmit their
several properties TO the descendants-cor-
roborating by experience the divine decree,
that the virtues and vices of the father
shall De visited on the children, to the
third and Fou tn generation. In The capi-
tails of Europe. blacks have attaine to the
highest places of social and literary emf
nencc. That they are capable of high
degree o. civ liZation, Hayti lily illus
trates. There We have lately seen revo-
luton, conducted in a manner that would
do honor TO the first people on earth, one
OF the avowed grounds of which was, that
President Boyer elected to secure general
education to the people, a consideration
, that should make some vaunted Sac
| blush n comparison. After the expulsion
OF the tyran;, they set about forming a
more repub lean Constitution. admitting
the whites who had participated in their
dangers and success, TO all the rights Of
citizenship. If history be true, we owe to
the Egyptians, said to be of the modern
| Moorish race. the arts and sciences, and
early seeds Of civilization. How many
centuries did it take bring them to per(ec-
| ton! When we reflect how little time the
n gro race has been under the influence of
other civilized nations, and the RAPID pro-
/ gress they have made in an upward direc-
/ ton, have We TO reason 10 treat them with
that absurd contempt. which in both the
eye of reason and religion stands equally
condemned. Why then, | am tainted by
both pro-savery and anti-slavery men, do
| | hold slaves! Uninfluenoed By the opin-
ions of the world, intend IN my own good
/ Time ID ACT or HOl 10 act, as 10 me seems
best in view of all the premises. Yet, |
thus far pledge myself, that when Kentucky
will join ne in freeing ourselves from this
curse which weighs US down even into
death. the slaves own she shall dispose of
as 10 her seems best. shall ask nothing
in return: but the enhanced value of nv
land which must ensue gradually from the
| dav that we indeed become free State -
( | will go yet further-give me free labor,
and | will not only give up my slaves, but
| will agree TO be taxed TO buy the remain
der from those who are unwilling or un-
able consistently. with regard to pecuniarv
interest, to present them to the State. and
then | shall deem myself and my posteritv
richer in dollars and cents even, than we
were before.
But to return from this DEPRESSION. We
are told that England almost surrounds as,
and that if We do not break away from her
fatal grasp, our days are numbered; and
TO excite on, patriotic Indignation, we hear
the taunt that by our very last treaty, ter
riiory was lost, and the country BETRAYED
/ Indeed and where then were the swords
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