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portaiiOn ihithcr. This Piralical warfare, the
approbium Of NPIDEL powers, is the warfare Of
the Christian King Of Great Britain. DeIermin.
ed 10 keep open a market where hEE should BE-
bought and sold, he has prostiIuted bis negative
for suppressing every legislative attempt TO pro-
hibiI or 20 restrain this execrabe commerce.
And that this assembage Of horrors might want
no fact Of distinguishabe die, he is now exciting
those very people 10 rise in arms among Us, and
TO purchase that liberty Of which he has depriv-
ed them, by numbering the people on whom be
also obtruded them: Thus paying off former
crimes committed against the LIBERTIEs Of one
people, with eumes which he urges them TO com.
nit againt the LIVES Of another. jefferson 5
Works vol. 1. p. 10.
This is the record. There was no division in
these sentiments. The Declaration was unani-
mously reported, with this distinguishable mark
-"war against human nature," "piraiicaI soar-
fare"-stamped on the front Of Slavery and its
abeltors. These were the sentiments ofthe cho-
sen champions Of Liberty during the pure days
of the Revolution. But il will be said, this Lam
guage is not now contained in the Declaration.
/ Not cas stricken OHt-and whyl Mr.. Adams
gave the following account of it in 1922:
"The instrument was reported, as believe, in
! JeiI'erson's hand wiring, as he first drew it,
Congress cut off about quarter part of it, as |
expected they would, but they oblterated the
best Of it. have long wondered that the origi.
nal draught has not been published. suppose
the reason is, the Uehement philippe against Ne
gro slarery."
Mr.. Jefferson gives the following account of
its purgation:
"The pussillaninous idea that we had friends
in England worth keeping terms with, still haunt
ed the minds of many. For this reason, those
passages which conveyed censure on the people
Of England were struck out, lest they should
give them offence. The clause too, reprobating
the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was
struck out in complaiSance to South Carolina and
Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain
the importation Of slaves, and who, on the con-
trary. still ioiShed to continue it. Our northern
brethren also, believe, felt liule tender under
those censures for though their people had very
few slaves, yet they had been pretty considerable
carriers Of them TO Others"
Here we have the history of this business
Georgia and South Carolina then, as now, wish
ed to hug the curse a little longer. And thetrad-
ing spirit Of the north (doughfacery) would bar
ter liberty for gain. This spirit is not yet ex-
tinct, as we see by the fate Of the Wilmot provi.
so in the late Congress.
jefferson, however, to his honor be it spoken,
continued firm to his principles. He took the
only republican ground, opposition to Tyranny
and Slavery, and maintained it to the last. Sla-
very is the essence of Aristocracy, and as such is
the enemy of Republican Equality. Acting on
this principle, in the year 1878, being then a
member of tho Virginia Legislature, he present.
cd and procured the passage of law "to prevent
the Importation ofSaves," and this was followed
by another shortly alterward "to authorize man
umissions," being the commencement Of a sys-
TEN Of general emancipation, also proposed by
him. Would Jefferson have voted against the
Wilmot proviso2 is question which every Re-
publican ought to consider. lfhe would not, (as
he could not, ifthere be truth in man, thenwhat
becomes Of the democracy" Of the present dayl
As interpreted by the powers at Washington,
and as acquiesced in by the Representatives of
The People, it is more than Of questionable cha
racter--it is mol Repubicanisnl-it is rank Aris-
tocracy.
What then is to be done with Slaveryl what
is its postionl what its latel In the first place
we answer, Let il alonel In the second place
it stands the opposite of Republican Equality;
and as such opposite, if it succeed in debating
the domestic and foreign policy of the country,
it destroys the representative character of our
government. and substitutes a new principle of
power for the simple one with which we set out,
ave the People''-the majority. Under Slave
representation, the minority will rule. And this
is the point at which we have arrived. The ad-
dition of new territory-a war of conquest to
increase Slave representation (for this is the is
sue proposed,) brings home the question-Shall
LIBERTY or SLAVERY preside over our destinies
as nation.
The question here started was broadly presen-
ed in the Wilmot proviso, as it is called, attach
ed to the three million bill. We here insert il
for the purpose of making remark or two. 1t
reads thus:
"Propided, further, That there shall be neth-
er slavery nor involuntary servitude in any ter
rtory on the continent of America which shall
hereafter be acquired by, or annexed to, the U.
nited States by virtue ofthis appropriation, or in
any other manner whatever, except for crimes
whereof the party shall have been duly convict.
ed Provided, alioays, That any person escap.
ing into such territory from whom labor or SER
vice is lawfully claimed in any one of the United
States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed,
aud conveyed out of said territory, to the person
claiming his or her labor or service"
Was this not enoughl The rights of the
Shareholder, as they exist, were cared for
The bill passed the House Of Representatives
with this proviso attached. Ii was stricken out
in the Senate. The bill in its new form came
back from the Senate, and the House submitted
yielded its will to the Slave power--the ma
ority submitted to the minority-the "one man
power" rode over, as usual, "We the People,"
and uiumphed over the Democratic Principles, as
in the time of Jefferson, sin compasance" to
AristocrOcyl
Why was thisi What reason will the Repre-.
sentative Of Northern Freemen give for this
of his dutyl We have heard
reason assigned |, was to enable the Administra-