The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1848-08-04

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the m tive for it.
| With these several public acts of Mr..
Van Ruren standing 10 bold relief on the
pages Of our country's history, be cuts
sorry figure in now appearing before tie
people Of the United States he foremost
champion of free soil and free labor.
And why, permit me to ask. is all thus
clamor abou, the abolition Of negro slave
ry!-for although you sail under the ban
ner of free soil and free labor, il is easv
10 perceive that this is u OF your object.
1 Can you not see 10 the signs of the times
that gradual but certain extinction ofthat
social evil slightly impeded Of late It's
tr e, by the misdoings of some "whose
zeal is not according to knowledge"
!, is about two centuries since the first
OF the African race were brought In our
shores. They were then what they still
are 10 their native country, miserable,
pnny, efemiDate creatures; scarcely bet,
ter than brntes, and almost without mind
or intellect. Now even those in bondage
are robust, athletic, and many of them in
teltigent and intellectual human beings,
aud the last census exhibited the fact that
far on the advance towards intelligence
and civilization as circumstances W i'll adj
init of. And is ii unreasonable y while
they are thus progressing from the ignor-
! at>, 49, ~ A..
tinn, to The state of freedom aud civiliza-
tion to which they are ultimately des
tined, that they should for time be fast
3 ened to lha, soil that clothes, comforts
and supports tlem, aud gives them im-
{ pe,us to that destined state of inteli.
gence and civilization!
There is in our State. and | have no
doubt in yours, class of men who volun
tsriiy left their native country, and for a
time became bondsmen,in order that ,hey
/, NIGH ultimately enjoy the advantages Of
of this class Of men are now useful aud
{ worthy citizens. And il is not unreason-
able that the African should undergo a
more protrscted bondage for being little
, longer time is occupied in his ransnu.
as9pn ts that condition shat enables h,n
properly to estimate and appreciate the
d advantages OF civil liberty.
Africa with its Carthage, its Thebes
and its Alexandra, once the seat of art
II science, aud Of learning, is now in the
'' deep darkness of ignorance aud supersi
Al ton, aud with the wanjerings of my i'm
, sgluation, | have often contemplated The
!, day when her sons shall return to her
r. heavily Iaded with the fruits of the knowl
edge gathered from those who held then
y IN bondage; aud 10 the mighty working'
u of that all wise Providence, whose lite
&c time is eternity, shall roll back upon .heil
j. native land mighty food OF intellect, in
leillgence, and clvlilzation.
II Aud you should remember, too, tha
slavery is social more than a pOlItica
; evil, and 1t is very improper to use. or Il
e desire to use, the democratic party fol
J. the eradication OF every social eVli ths
u NAV exist. The doctrine of the Demo
ocratic National Conventions of lo4O, 45
to which Mr.. Van Buren, subscribed il
IS40. is that slavery IS a matter entlfeij
g uuder the control Of the States wherein Al
= exisrs, and is matter In which the peo
> pie of the non slavehuldIng States have NJ
= ritrit N huslness IN lntaIferR
" In Peunsj jlvan'a slavery is forbidden BY
5 an act OF Assembly. and may exist sgain
! whenever our Legislature see 6l 10 re-
J peal that act; aud | suppose toe same
Il state OF things exists iu the 5 ate Of n ew
York: and what folly it is to clamor fo'
S the passage Of an idle pruvso that SLAYER!
shall not exist 10 any territory of the
e Unittd > ates south Of a ceriain line "I
d lautude, while any State winch may be
: admitted INTO tne Uuion cut of The same
territory may establish slavery ny re-
pealtng OF enactIng an act OF Assembly
Fdr u Is well established that Congress
has no power or control over the iunda
menta al laws ufa State, they being tn ire
and exclusively in The people who com.
Sc the State.
You have both social and political evils
in the S ate OF New York. There is for
instance, the great political evil of paper
money-bankng. call political evil
because il is built up sniely by the statute
laws Of you State. by force aud vlrtne
of these laws, cunning few are epaple
TO manufacture rags and lamphlAck into
money, for the special use and beue6 OF
those who labor.
You have what is called the "Safeiy
Fund" system of banking, OF which you'
great chief, Mr. Van Burea was The an.
thur and Iuun er; one Of which was the
Canal BsOk OF Albany, wnIchfalled da,
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