The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-06-17

how unjust II y 10 the people OF the South, who have
this moral and constitutional right to demand oil TINS
government the protection Of this description OF pro-
perry, To treat II sort OF ieso maJestats
as offence against the majesty of eootonism al
home aud abroad 10 talk about IL at all IN discussing
question which involves IFS existence. II has been
significantly limited here, aud openly affirmed else
where, that the Secretary of State, by even audins
In his Official correspondence TO the subject oil sia-
very, add the avowed designs OF Great Britain III
relation 10 H. had committed gross indecorum To-
wards the abolition spirit of the North, which would
drive northern senators from the support oil TINS urea
| ~. What sir, has II come TO th,s-that man who
| feels himself TO he free citizen Of these United
States dare not peak of his rights, and OF The
obligation OF this government To protect them against
every danger, direct Indirect, open or disguised,
from whatever quarter IL may come, A more sting
ing insult could not be offered 10 free people IL
has, again. been said, in certain quarters Of the
Union, that Texas shall not be received into the
coniederacy OF the United States because II viii
prove nursery of slavery. Allow 20 present
plain and practical view TO this aspect Of the ques-
uon.
What then, will be the effect of the emancipation
OF our slaves, or OF a policy which shall conhne
them to the limits Of the existing slave States r.
What shall be done with the emancipated slaves
which will be crowded upon usl Is there any theo,
ist SO visionary think that ali the emancipated
slaves of the United States be colonzed in ARR
car Why, SIR, the annual Increase Of these people
by procreaton is one hundred thousand And how
many have the abors OF the benevolent societies Of
the United States annually transported from this
country Not one hundredlh part Of that number
They have scarcely checked the increasing numbers
OF the free people Of color already existing 10 the
United States
| That population in the United States cannot be
diminished but must be increased. Now, if we
shall annex Texas, i. will operate a saiey-valye
to let oil the superabundant slave population from
among us; and will at the same time improve their
condition. They will be more happy, and we all
shall be more secure, But if you pen them up with
In our present limits, what becomes of the free
groes, and what will be their condition have not
seen them congregated in great numbers as to
form sort OF community any where bnt in Phila-
dephia and Of all the spectacles of squalid wretch
edness TO be found on the face Of the habitable
GLOBE save, perhaps in the pureus of London, they
there exhibit the most wretched and revolving. They
are, IN every view of moral dignity, libel upon the
human race. Though they live under the control of
wise laws, devised and enacted by not bad specl
men OF the Anglo-Saxon race, yet there they
such spectacle OF human degradation and misery
II we send them TO Africa, what will, in a little
while, be the spectacle they will exhibit there? 1t
will be worse than that which St Domingo exhibits
now, alter progress OF forty years in the expert
ment OF set-government. phlanlhropist will be
| just as much puzzled TO ascertain the nscrutable
purpose OF Cod IN placing such beings upon the face
OF the earth, as for what purpose he created scor
pions or rattle snakes. In St Domingo they have
had the right of self government for forty years, and
what has been their history Incidence, poverty,
faction, oppression, and civil strife. Wave after
wave has passed over their wretched country, and
every wave now promises to be of blood
The truth IS they utterly incapable Of sell gov
ernment Even now, after the progress they have
made III Christian civiliZaton-in the school OF sla-
very and under the dominion of superior race i
deliberately pronounce it my opinion, long enter
| tanned, and founded upon an intimate knowledge OF
the negro character, and confirmed by the fatal ex
periments made in the West Indies that the privl-
lege of seligovernment, conferred upon the slaves
now existing III the Uni ed States, formed into
parate community would be the greatest that
could be inflicted upon them And if they should be
sent back TO Africa they would speedily relapse into
the condition of their savage ancestors What, then,
shall We do with them Remain with as free they
cannot. We shall be constrained TO throw them off
as nuisance upon neighbors and the result to
them will be worse than If half the parishes Of Eng
land should by combination, throw of their paupers
| on the other half. The injury TO the free States,
from such an operation, would be much greater than
that which wodld I've experienced, in the case sup
| posed, by the inundated parishes.
l trust have shown that have moral and
constitutional right to demand the protection Of this
immense amount OF slave property and that all the
States Of the Union alike interested in giving that
protection, till the providence of God shall provide
some natural and safe process Of getting rid of this
de cripton of people.
deeply regret the necessity of referring to the
topic at at all but as is maintained that this nsttu
ton IS a curse which must be removed and as the
ed desire and effort of those who tain this
opinion, is to produce universal and Immediate eman-
cipaton, ask, in no spirit of recrimnation how did
the South come TO be afflicted with this moral and
polite abomlnation SIR II came TO US of the pre-
sent generatlon and our ancestors for genera
lions past, by inheritance For nearly half centu-
~ no slaves have been imported. For than a
century preceding the termination Of the slave trade
that Infamous traffic carried on by the ships of
old England and New England and believe 1t was
royal monopoly m the mother country. In all the
Southern colonies | am not aware that there was
ever single ship engaged in this traffic. For the
horrors OF the middle passage, which have been so
often held up to excite sympathy and indignation,
the responsibility rests exclusively the ancestors of
those who are now so strongly animated by blind,
reckless, and fanatcal zeal Tor the immediate eman-
cipaon of our slaves in violation of the double guar
anly under which we hold them by the law of con.
tracts, and the constitutional compact Of our Union
as equal and sovereign States. And II is a remarka.
Ole coincidence, that those European States who ne
yer had any agency m the slave trade scrupuously
observe the great conservative law Of non-nterfe-
ence IN regard TO our domestic institutions while
those States, European and American who are real
y aud exclusively responsible for the original sin Of
slavery, are combined together in waging great
moral and religious crusade against an Institution
which they have themselves brought upon the slave
holding States Of this Union
| | have often looked at the WAYS Of Providence
with the profoundest admiration aud homage, when
have seen by what extraordinary agencies God is
able to bring good out Of evil II Is obvious 10 my
view, that be has actually educed good to mankind,
even out 4 all the blood and atrociy which has mark
cd the slave trade. more detcstabe, NOR, abomi-
nabe traffic never furnished the annals Of our race
and yet, what has been lis RESULT Two aud a hall
millions OF the African race, whose ancestors were
brought to this country in the lowest and most bru-
tai state OF savage degradation and now after a cen
ury and bali Of slavery, civilized religious and
| viii add happy and contentod, people. Comparing
their present condition with thai Of the tribes from
which they were taken, II is apparent that they made
larger advances IN moral and intellectual improve
ment, than they could have made ia Africa IN ten
centuries, with all the exertions Of ten thousand mis-
sionarics.
Such is the Institution Of SLAYER, In the uniied