Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-07-01

the poisoned chalice, and we viii press ii
to your lips until you swallow the very
dregs.
so would not4be understood as desiring a.
sefyilei insurrectioI: but say to southern
gentlemen that there are hundreds 81 thous.
ands Of honest and patriotic mon, who sacill
laugh al your calamity, and piu mock
achen your fear cometh. 4, If blood and
massacre should mark the. struggle for lib
erty Of those who forages have been op-
pressed and degraded, my prayer to the
God Of Heaven shall be, that justice -.stern|
.justice--may be awarded to
both master and slave. Nj | desire that eve
ry human being may enjoy the rights with
which the God of nature has endowed him.
If those rights can be regained by the
down-trodden sons of Africa in our southern
States by quiet and peaceful means, hope
they will pursue such peaceful measures.
But if they cannot regain their God-gi
rights by peaceful measures, 4 nevertheless
hope they will regain them; aud y blood be
shed, should certainly hope that itmight
be the blood Of those ,oho stand bet,oeea
them and freedom, and not the blood Of
those who have long been robbed Of their
wives and children and all they hold dear
in life. 1t is true, that when those scenes
shall occur, northern freenien, our sons and
neighbors, must march to Texas, and bare
their breasts to the shafts of battle, in soul
degrading defence Of slavery. In such a
cause rho ,could moi. be d co,oard2 Our
fathers fought for the inalienable rights Of
man; our sons must face the cannon's
mouth in defence of slavery. Should the
black regiments of the, West Indies land
upon our southern coast, and freemen of
the North will be placed in position the
contemplation of which is most revolving to
the feelings Of humanity. For the people
Of the free North to march to our southern
States, and stand between the emancipated
slaves Of the West Indies and southern
slayeholders, and defend them while they
fog their bondnen into submission, will be
degradation without parallel, except it be
found in the quiet submission of our people
TO the political control of those who buy
and sell their fellow-man, and make mer-
chandise Of ofhuman flesh. 81 '-'''@
''Should the scenes to which, | have al.
luded take place.. one great advantage
would result. Perhaps no statesman doubts
that war with England must prove, the
death Of slavery. The British Govern
mens now have no slaves in their Yves In
dia islands, as in the last war, to restrain
them from raising the flag gof emancipation
The paralyzing effects which that institu
ton exerts upon the physical energies o
the nation would be exhibited to the world
Our people ofthe N orth would be constrain
ed to look upon the evil as it really is. i' Z
aThe slave power would lose its charm
Our citizens of the North would be a
reused from the lethargy which, for half .
century, has held their sensibilities in a tor
| pid inactivity toward the oppressed Of ou
land. We should then find means toseve
the cordswhich have SO long, unconstitu
tionally, boundns to the putrescent carcas
Of slavery. Great Britain would not be like
|iy to pay southern shareholders twelve hun
dred thousand dollars for human cattle, VIII
shall have stfayed from their owners, a
was done at the close Of the lastw
i Now, (said Mr.. THURMAN,) with tn
/ individual opinions of the author Of thes
sentiments have nothing to do. He ma
entertain them, atrocious as they are. H
may desire to see all the horrors he depict
], in preference to what; he calls the indhfel
!. Ience Of the free States 'sto the control I
i the ssslayeholding power;" in other words
ii in preference to the existing state Of thing.
|, He may pray that IN a servile war tn
blood ofthewhite man, and not of the n,
gro, may be- shed; that the relatives or d
scendants Of Washington and Sumpter an
!, Marion, Of Jefferson and Madison and Lei
J Of Monroe and Of jackson, may fall in th
| contest; fall by the hand Of the slave VIII
( come to them by inheritance, without the
choice and without their fault. In such
i consummation he may find cause for i
|, ljoicing. In the defence iof his fellow ci,
II zens Of the South he may choose to sbe
coward, AT their calamity" he ma
!. sslaugh. and 1mock when their fear cor
i eth He may think it s'degradation' to il
|. pei British troops if they be black, and lal
5 on ID southern shore. He may refuse i
!, defend the soil Of his country or the lv
ofher citizens in. war. All this hemay q
h These may be- his sentiments; / will n
h deny that they are. Let him revel in the
Il ifhe cnn. Ishall not undertake to distu
S his enjoyment. M am content to leave hi
tito his fate. But, sir: il he mean to asst
h that these are the sentiments Of the5peoI
], Of Ohio, Or of any considerable portion
g that people; ifhe mean to'aflifm that tho,
Is ands, much less s.hundredssof thousands''
U her citizens entertain such views, I ht
to declare that the assertion is as unfoundet
M slander as ever fell from the lips Of ma
idENothing could be further from the tru'
ID nothing. whatever There eisnot q State
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