Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1847-05-20

Judgment, and the meek VIII lie Teach Ills
way" And without this they will "Teach
otherwise and consent not to wholesome
words'' The tendencies of civilized mind
are all that way. To that love of liberty
and hatred of oppression which character
ICES Northern clmes, the fallacy of suppos-
ing that slavery is oppression seems almost
instructive. This places it in false posi-
pathy for the supposed oppressed is as strong
as for the really oppressed. Indeed the
laws of the human mind are such that when
real being is known to suffer, or when a
real being is not known but supposed to
suffer, and when an imaginary being is sup
posed to suffer, the sympathy felt alike in
all cases, is felt not for either of these, but
for another being created by the sympathiz-
ing mind itself, and modelled in all respects
after its own image. The sympathy, there
fore, which is felt in Vermont for the slaves
of the South, is not felt for what the slaves
actually suffer, but for what the Vermonters
severalIy suppose that themselves would
suffer, if, with all their aspirations, their love
and appreciation of liberty and capacity for
using it to advantage, they were degraded
from their high estate to the condition Of
slaves
But the facts in the case are glaringly and
VIGOROUSLY otherwise. The slave of the
South has not as is supposed been degraded,
for that he could not be, but has been con-
stantly rising ever since he became slave
here. Where so much supposed wrong ex-
lists, the supposed wrong-doer must neces-
sarly come in Tor a correlatve share of mis-
apprehension and consequent reproach
Since the laws OF mind are such as above
described, and such results are natural re-
suits, they must be admitted to be correct
results, if we cannot aledge counteractng
laws of at least equal authority with the
natural tendencies of our minds. These are
found in the volume of revealed truth
Since mind is so, non interference is per-
emptorily commanded by Him who created
mind, and when it had erred, revealed to it
what it imperiously needed to know.
Slavery in the United States has resulted,
and is destined still more and more to re-
suit, in the permanent good and advancement
of the Negro race, and human device can
not make it last longer than the good of the
slaves themselves requires, and human de-
vice cannot hasten its termination by any
other means than by shedding of blood.
White population is supplanting colored
population, whether free or bond, by an ir-
resistble law. Thus, and thus only, is it
desirable for the good Of any party, or pos
sible, to terminate slavery in the South
Such is our Southern faith on this subject.
The innovating and progressive morality
of the N or,h, requires that something should
be done to discountenance slavery. This
something, as far as the General Govern
ment is concerned, her statesmen in Con-
gress are expected to do. They are expect
ed to represent and act upon the views of
their constituents.
I New-England statesmen admit and main
tain that they have no constitutional right
to do any thing with or about the slavery
which exists in the States, but that the con-
troll of that matter belongs to the sovereign
States severally in which slavery exists
Still the sense of the constituency, backed
by the sense of the civilized world, urge
them on to try to do something to discoun-
tenance slaveholding, and to induce the
South to abandon it.
| A singular fact, and that by which the d.
versity in character between the North and
South is most strongly illustrated, is that
the point of controversy on which at the
present time the two communities gra2ple
closest, is not the abolition of slavery, but
the question of right to discuss the subject
of slavery.
The South knew not their Northern
friends as we'll as they might have been
known, or they never would have insisted
that their petitions to Congress for the abo-
ltion of slavery in the District of Columbia
should not be received. A love of consti-
tutional liberty and love of morality, with
all the fanatical abolitionism which adheres
to it, were brought into harmonious combi-
nation. Those who were for the sacred
right of petition, and those who were for
the sacred right of abolitionism acted in per-
feet concert, and it was useless and i'll judged
to resist.
The right of petition being conceded, and
yet the thing petitioned for being as far from
being granted as ever, and remaining as de-
sirable as ever in Northern estimation, the
same thing. sis sought to be accomplished by
exercising the right of discussion.
There are certain propositions to argue
| which is treason against nature. And such,
have the Northern members Of Congress
occasion to believe, is the opinion of the
South about discussing the subject of slave
ry. Here the position of the Northern men,
bers is still embarrassing. The North have
no political power over slavery in the States.
This is conceded. Yet under the consttu-
tional provision that the freedom of speech
and the freedom of the press shall not be
abridged, they have the right to discuss sla-