The North-Carolina standard., 1847-03-03
VOLUME XIII f,-NUMBER 64s . -
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4serVant greater and more unlimited than we have
Were not human beings then bought and sold2
i Did Our Savior, in his holy teachings, warn man
that he endangered his salvation If he held slave
property Did He preach the necessity of its
taboIiionq of its sinfulness2 Have the honorable
tgentlemen perused the epstle Of Paul 10 Philemon,
which was sent by Onesimus, a runaway sLGTe?
Paul sent him home 10 his Christian master; and
in his epistle to Philemon, he says Of Onesimus,
4" Whom would have retained with me; but
without. thy mind would do nothing" Sir, If
pau, under Divine inspiration, thought slavery
crime, he would have told Philemon, "Sir, re-
member you must die, and are accountable 90
God ! take off his shackles, and liberate your
lslavep No; he recommends him To- his mercy,
and sent him backto his master, because he said,
| ne had. no authority to keep him-G reTy useful
lesson, By anhich friends IN some portions Of
the Union might profit! know it is said the
word servant does not mean Stare. challenge
investigation on this subject. The woEd trans
lated Ssroant, in the Greek. is dOulOs, which
means slGre, and is used in conradistiDctjon Ito
words used to mcan "a hireling or servant
And l now insist lhatigentlencn, before they do
uounce US and consign TO inE,my and eternal
perdion, invoking the Word Of God against rs,
shall first read that holy book, abd know what it
contains. d. 5a-n s'.., -.e..g. .tr4 eslFo4
Mr. Chairman, have not thrust this discussion
here. did not commence this discussion about
iscriptural authority. But when gentlemen say
i4ndt IHc judgments OF OOQ VIII DC upon Us, anu
consign to infamy in This world and perdition
in anolher-when the gentleman from Ohio, IN
his fervent manner, seemed 10 lift up his heart and
call upon his God to smile on their efors-When
northern men claim the authority of the Bible
against u.s. have thought ri ght 10 refer TO that
book, not to prove slavery Divine institution,
a very great blessing, but TO show that they are
too hasty in their ref fence to scriptura authority
do noi include all the gentlemen from The North
ln The category, for / recognise some ofthem who
stand with us, whom | cordially take by the hand
as friends in this crisis. But EeE.r TO gentlemen
who delivered studied pieces Of dec Iamaon against
our domestic Institutions, who thus invoked the
Word of God-who spoke with the .lerEia zeal of
a Crusader bent rescuing the South from the
grasp Of the healhenish slaveholder--who read 10
US an act of southern Legislature preventing the
slaves from being taug ht to read and write, and
said, 1.-THE eye of the intellect was put out By this
system. And here would remark that this act
! OF Assembly was rendered necessary on accoup8
Of just such movements as this calculated to put
mischief in the mind Of the slave, and making
rigid laws indispensable. And L would further
remark, that gentlemen are laborng under false
impressions as TO the moral condition of our
slavPs-many of whom are instructed, and many
of, whom are not kept IN such religious Ignorance
as not to be able TO compete, with much success,
in their biblical knowledge, with some who, in
high plsces, drplore their degradation. 80 I'm
But il is said that these efforts are made to bro.
eft the negro. ] hold, Mr.. Chairman shat the
black and ao6ite races cannot soezisf gGnder the
same4gorernment upon an equal footing. i eha4-
IIeHge any body to controvert it. Il will not GO
into my own country for proof ofthis, but will re-
fer to The North, where cur friends claim TO be,
and no doubt many are, act1ated in reference 10
this matter By pure and disinieresleds motives
Slavery is technically abolished there, but servi.
auu w;lrn tne legislator, clad in the
garb of philanthropy, takes the negro to the hall
of Legislation, tears his chains from him, and bids
him go and be ffee he practically stops him at the
door and tells him, When you go to The theatre
remember you are a black man, and laItcs your
to worship God, remember your color and SCI
not with the white man, your, libeTator, but your
superior, Dlre not intrude at the same table
with US. And when you die and are to be buried.
your graveyards and ours are 10 be separate.
do not say thissin spirit of dcnunciation of the
North; far from n ; and in every State il may not
be true; but il sustains me in The proposition
laid down, that tfe black and white races canno.
coexist under the same government upon an equal
footing. The right of Suffrage is rarely given to
them in the North, and in the State which my
friend near in part represents, (New York,)
when the attempt was recently made to give him
Ibis night the proposition as rejected with scorH
BY one hundred thousand majority. ~
But say if you attempt to ii6erate these slaves
in our country, in our limited territory, You can
dothem no good and you do the whites essential
harm. 4 have seen lately a summary Of curious
facts prepared by gentleman Who looks into
statistics, and these facts Indicate clearly that ip
this country, when you liberate these slaves they
are mored6gradedthan when they nre slaves, and
commit more crime. Diffusion will come nearer
promoting ultimate peaceful emancipation than
any movement that can be made And coming to
the South southern gentlemen will bear me out,
that the crime committed in the South is by the
free negro, not by the slave. And although ne
have in midst some free negroes Of The best
character, yet they do not receive from the white
man either the same protection or sympathy that
the slave does, whose master protects him both
fiom principle and interest. ss-a
. The following will serve to show how slightly
if at ALL the moral condition of the coored man
is improved lin the States where he is emanei-
pated and If this be the picture where the blacks
are so fewSin numbers, what can be expected II
our slaves are 10 becen6ned TO their present ter.
ritorial limits, and numbering more than three
millions, and then eunancipated II ,l7a. tsa
In Massachusetts there is one free negro TO sew
enty- four ofthe white population, and yet oae-SiEtb
of the convcts are free negroes In ConnecticUt
there is one free negro to thinyfonr Of the white
population, and yet one third Of the convicts are
free negroes In New York there 10 one free ne
gro to thirty -6ye.o the white population, and yet
one-fourth of the convicts are free negtoess In
New Jersey there is 6ne free negro to thirteen of
The white population, and yet oneihiTd Of the
prisoners are free negroes. In enhsy there
isone free uegro thirtyfouEOf the white popnlas
lion and oneFhird ofthe prisoners arefreebegfoess
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