Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-01-16

the white, and that when they came iaN-
tact, it was by the law of nature and the de-
cree of God, that the negro should be the
servant of the white man."
Will it be believed that sentiments such
as these could emanate from citizen of this
enlightened republic, and one connected in
no-wise with the institution of slavery. Such
is the fact: the extract is taken from an edi-
torial in the last Wisconsin, (Madison) De-
mocrat Why, if We mistake not, slave-hol-
ders do not generally attempt TO justify them
selves upon grounds so broad as this; they
do not 90 further than to urge necessity, ex-
pediency, and their right in their property,
&c. as justification: il appells TO have been
reserved for citizen of the north to take
the high and bold ground, that they are slaves
by the law of nature and the decree of God
What is this proposition in plain terms: why
the negro is weak the white is strong, there
fore the negro is properly the property and
slave of the white; this is the plain PROPOSE
ton. Admitting the negro TO be inferior in
intellect, none VIC presume will deny him al
the sympathies and affections which belong
TO the white man. Parental love is HIS the
affections which belong TO and cluster about
home and family arc his; he feels the emo
tons of friendship, the promp:;ngs of graft
tude, the attachments of place, lie pains and
pleasures of memory, in Short all those fec
lings which prove him rational and social
being, yet that system which tears husbands
| from wires, wives from husbands, children
from the patcrnal roof bares the back to the
scourge, invadcs and breaks up the domestic
and social circle, and outrages the social ia
culties, VIC are told is the decree of nature
and good wise, and benevolent God. What
a monstrous doctrine.
We are not abolitioniss in the common
acceptaton of the term; lu; what philanthro-
py, benevolence, and christianity we do pos
scss is stirred to the quick by the cold hear
ted avowals contained in the extract quoted.
Although various opinions arc entertained as
to the mode of abolish;ng slavery, the time
when, &c. very few we think, are prepared
TO avow their feeling for perpetual slavery.
We have no sympathy whatever with the
abolitonisis in the course they see fit TO
adopt TO effect their ends; but we believe,
nevertheless that the institution of slavery is
violation of the law of nature and God; in
opposition 10 the primes pies of liberty which
we profess; degrading to the whites who arc
connected with land highly injurious 10 the
blacks; productive in Short, of lnaumerable
evils, and we earnestly desire emancipation
We earnestly desire it, and hive not shad
ow of doubt bat it VIII be had. When Tho
mas Jefferson, in view Of slavery, slid he
trcmbled for his country when he remember
ed that God was just, he comp-ehended
clearly the CHI rlcter of those W sc instiu-
tons by which no man, set of men, or nation
could live in their hab,ual violation, without
full and ample retribut;On. There is no evil
abroad in the world but has with it Il remedy
which will sooner or later eradicate it, and
effect reform The revolutions which are
continually taking place, the passing away o
old things and the substitution of new, the
convuls:ons of governments, and the indvi-
dual miscries through which we are passing
are but the workings of truth and right IN
their steady and answering rh1Ich TO ulti
mate supremacy. Shareholders have the
alternative 10 cling TO and sustain the evil
until they are overwhelmed by its magnitude,
or gradually to eradicate and withdraw them
selves from its Influence. This latter course
they will never adopt through the exertions
of aboltionists. They must be convinced
that it is for their happiness and weA-being
and eventual interest so to do, and of this no
amount of invectre or bitter denunciation
will convince them; but like the fierce wind
which only induced the traveller to draw his
cloak more closely round him, they cling clo
ser to their errors when the attempt is made
10 drive them from them. They will meet
their opponents in the same spirit in which
they are assailed, and by pre-occupying the
mind with bitter and rancorous feeling, it is
impossible for calm reasoning and truth to
have any influence, and as it is by this alone
that slavery can be reaceably abolished, we
think with J. @. Adams, that abolitionisis
retard the cause they strive to hasten.
But the north can exercise an influence
nevertheless, and it can do it most effectu
ally by abolisbing slavery at home. We are
bold to say that many of the laws and insti-
tutions of the northern states and of the ge-
neral government, are productive in tbeirrc-
suits of slavery as CALLING to certain classes
as are the institutions of the south to the
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