Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1845-05-29

lected, encouraged. aud rewarded, in all
the liberty loving North. Parsdoxical as
It may seem, there is nothing resembling
sympathy and equalily Of moral relation
between the races. exceyt 10 the South,
where the one, in the proportion OF seven
IN ten, is enslaved to the other. Here,
10 a great extent, the Chi dren of the Two
races grow up together, and, as general
rule. cherish for each other, in greater OF
less degree, interest and attachment
Similar reasoning apples TO the house.
hold circle, as il regards adults. There
is natural sense OF obligation and kind
ness, on the ore hand, and OF d dependence
and gratitude on the other, leading TO ma
ny OF the kinder Offices Of human inter-
course without which The heart must be
utterly desolate. ! do not claim Tor the
South that this view of the subject applies
20 all slave holding individuals aud iaml-
lies. There are bu, too many exceptions
to the rule, and shall not attemp, TO pro.
tect them from the execraiion they dc.
serve, for neglect and cruelty in relation
to their abused and suffering slaves. Nor
do intend to charge upon the Morrill, or
free States, thai there are no individuals
OF families WAC treat The negro as he de-
serves. speak only oil the general rule,
IN both cases, and am anxious to give full
force 10 the exceptions, both as il rega5 IDS
number and weight. individuals and
lamilips in the South have, doubtless, act
ed UNANIMOUSLY toward their slaves. and
continue TO do so, as individuals and FAM.
lies in the North have, and continue To,
towards their hired and epprenticed SER
wants, and formerly TOWARDS their slaves
also. Most cheerlulIy do we bear tesii.
mony, that individuals and associates in
the North have, IN mauy instances, acted
noby toward the negro, whether free oil
slave. What we ask is, that the excep-
tons, in both cases, may be fairly con
trasted with the general rule.
The abolition Of slavery has been ex.
tensively agfaied, three several times in
the United States. The first was about
the time Of the formation OF the Fedora
Government. Shortly after the adoption
oil the Constitution, numerous abolition
petitions reached Congress, under the ad
minlslraton of Washington, praying thu
interposltion of the General Government;
They were respectfully received and re
irrred to an able committee, as all suci
petitions should be, and the report of TIE
committee was, that the General Govern
ment had nothing 20 do with the subject
no rIgb, to interfere in any way, as tn,
ma,,'r belonged wholly TO the slave-hcld
ing States, without any right, on the par
oil Individuals, societies, churches, or tn,
free States, even, to NEEDLE with it. AM
so the matter was disposed OF, apparently
to the satisfaction Of all concerned, an
the excitement all died away.
| The next abolition era, connects will
the admission Of Missouri, thirty years at
ter, when the compromise to which WI
have alluded took place, and again settle
the QUESTION. The third movement fol
lowed that OF England, in relation to Yves
India Slavery, and has continued eve
since, although the movemenis--,h
emancipation proposed here, and tina
which took place in the West Indies
are utterly unanalaeous. Here, the ne
groes are ia the m'dst of US, locally mix
ed up with great people, beng to tn,
population as one in three. There, the,
were scattered among cluster Of dlstan
islands, and were tweEty TO one as Il
oumber, rendering an expensive military
force indispensable TO the safety, in escl
island. Had four millions OF negro slave
been mixed up with the people of Eng
lard, Ireland. Scotland and Wales, doe
any sane person suppose they would hav
been emancipaled by the English Parla
ment! Or rather, is 1t not certain the,
would not have been, unless their insian
removal had been provided for! 1t is al
inst ance, therefore, Of the most stupid in
justice, to attempt to reason by analog,
from the one to the other. Long belou
any appeal was heard from the North
the VOICE ot the South was emphatic il
tn drnunciatlon of negro slavery.
The colonies OF Virginia and Georgia
and even South Carolina, boil ly temon
straled against the inpohcy and Inbuman
ity of the slave trade, and lis consequent
ces, when they knew their Sovereign wa
a smuggling Slave merchant, dividing tn
spoil with large number Of his own sub
jects, and those Of other nations, Tt,
South too, has always shown istl NOR,
ready than the North, to get rid Of thu
negro by remoral and colonization in AZ
rIca, or elsewhere, fit b.. found practca
BILE. The great mass OF Southern slave
holders resist general emancipation, no
because il is Inconsistent with their int r
est, viewed as a question ofpoltcal econ
omy, but because they know it to be vi,
tery Incompatible with their safety
Upon the consequences OF the immediate
lndlst intimate emancipation oil the slave
OF the south, or emancipation by ony 9th
er than vary graduate methods, | am no
disposed 10 dwell. A sober mnde,
men, however, indulge the apprehensroI
that were the slaves thus LIT loose, the,
might be led 10 think and Tel like the ne
gloes Of St. Domingo, butcherug tn,
whole European population, IN gratitude
for the decree oil the French Assembly o
1871, declaring them free and equal" tt
the whites. Who does not know that ev
cry rash movement OF the North endan
n.,e h., o,of -, Of tha < nth onI oo,,.o