New-York daily tribune., 1844-01-22

all experience. 1t is derogatory to human nature
and blasphemy against God himself.
"All America, except Brazil and the United
States, have freed their slaves and are the whites
slaves in consequence At the Revolution on
the day of the Declaration of Independence ali
the States held slaves, not excepting Massaci'"-
sets Now there are thirteen nonsiaveholoi'ig
States are those ten millions OF Nof'nefilers
slaves? Great Britain, in conjunction with al
Europe, except the miserable anarchles OF opaAh
and Portugal, have long since emanclPa'eo many
slaves and now, in the year 1913 to her honor
be # spoken. having liberated 30,O0O,OOO OF her
Fast India serfs in all her wide domains, which
touch on every sea- and embrace every chime un
der the whole Heavens there IS not nor indeed
can be, single slave-and is she ensaved
No, she has sense enough to know, and heart
enough to feel, that it is justice, honor and glory
which secure the liberties of people and make
them invincible and immortal.
"Do gentlemen take the absurd position that
one hundred and eighty thousand freed men
| could enslave kentucky West India emancl-
patton proves that the great majority OF freed
men could be employed economically IN the same
Offices at small wages which they now TIL, with
perhaps more case and safety than now exist.
But should they prove turbulent for which there
would be no cause, and which no man III bls
senses believes would happen, and were | dls-
posed to indulge in that vauntlng spirit, which
to-day has so powerfully infected US; with i've
thousand such troops as these | have the honor
to command, to whom gentlemen have been
pleased to allude in a manner so complimentary
at nv expense, would undertake to drive from
the State the assembled one hundred and eighty
thousand in arms. They further tell US, with
most reverential gravity, that God has designed
some men for slaves, and man need not attempt
TO reverse the decree; it is better that the blacks
should be slaves, than the whites This propo-
sition, which denounce as utterly false, passes
away before the glance of reason, as the dew be-
! fore summers SUM-
"I shall admit, merely for the sake Of argu-
ment that some men always have, and possibly
will perform menial Offices for the more fortunate
Let the law of nature or of God have It's undls
turbcd action-let the performance of those offccs
be voluntary on the part of servants, and mat
beautiful harmony by which the highest intellect
is united by successive inferior links to the lowest
mind. will never be disturbed. The sensitive and
hiphIv organized and intellectual, will gradually
rise from service to command the stold, inc
proiigate. the insensibIc and coarsey organized
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 Sc
cured forever But when by municipal law, and
not by the law Of fitness, which is the law of ma
ture, not regarding the distinctions OF morals,
mind or body, whole classes are doomed to scrvl-
tude. when the intellectual the sensitive, the
foolish. the rude, the good, the bad, the refined
the degradcd arc all depressed to one level, never
more to rise forever. then comes ev-nOthlng
but cvil-like as from damned up waters or pent
no streams, floods and explosions come slowly,
| hut come at laSt-so nature mocks with tempo
rarv desoaton at the obstacles man would op-
pose TO her progress and at length, moves on
| once more in all the untrammelled vlgor and un-
fading loveliness, which, from eternity, was de-
creed
"That the black is inferior to the white, l
readily allow but that vice may depress the
one, and virtue by successive generations ele-
vate the other, TIL the two races meet on one
common level, | am also firmly convinced.
Modern science in the breeding and culture Of
other animals than man, has most fully proved
this fact, which the ablest observers Of man
himself all allow, that mental and moral and
physical development transmit their several
properties to the cscendants-corroborati by
experience the Divine decree, that the virtues
and the vices OF the father shall be visited on
the children to the third and fourth generation.
In the capitals of Europe, blacks have attained
to the highest places Of social and literary emf
nence. That they are capable of high degree
of civilization, Hayti daily illustrates. There we
have lately seen arevoutlon conducted IN man.
ner that would do honor to the first people on
earth, one Of the avowed grounds of which was
that President Boyer neglected to secure general
education to tho people, consideration that
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rison. After the expulsion of the tyrant, they set
about forming more republican constitution, adj
hitting the whites who had participated IN their
dancers and success to all the rights of citizer-
ship.
" If history be true, we owe to the Egyptians,
said to be of the modern Moorish race, the arts
and sciences and our early seeds of civilization
How many centuries did it take to bring them to
perfection When we reflect how little time the
negro race has been under the influences of other
civilized nations, and the rapid progress they have
made in an upward direction, we have no reason
to treat them with that absurd contempt, which in
both the eve of reason and religion stands equally
condemned. Why then, am tauntingly asked,
bv both pro- slavery and antl-slavery men, do
hold slaves Uninfluenced bv the opinions the
world, intend, in my OWN good time, to act or not
to act as to me seems best IN view Of all the preml-
ses Yet, | thus far pledge myself, that whenever
Kentucky viii ION me in freeing ourselves from
this curse which weighs us down even unto
DEATH the slaves | own, she shall dispose of as
to her seems best. shall ask nothing in return
but the enhanced value Of my land which must
ensue gradually from the day that we became
indeed free and independent State. will GO
vet further-give me free tabor, and will not
only give up NY slaves, but will agree to be
taxed to buy the remainder from those who are
unwilling or unable consistently, with a regard
to pecuniary interest to present them to the State
and then | shall deem myself and my posterity
i richer In dollars and cCnts. than Mere