New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-08
H. .bs, murder. . child ba. no defence in the fac,

He that murders q child has defence in the fact
that he frat murdered the sire
lis any man born slave The Declaration Of
Iodepeudeuce says, All men are born equal;
their natural rights 'unsliensbe. IL is absurd to
say, n man was born free In Africa. and bis soa
born slave Ia Virginia The child born IL Africa
is made slave by actual theft and personal vio-
lence By What otner process can be be made 4
slave In America Tee fac, that his father was
stolen before him makes no difference. b. the
law Of the United States IL is piracy % enslsve a
man born ia Aircs ~ the tor Of Justice. - Il less
piracy 10 enslars him rken born "a B5lf,m0rc'
The domestic slave trade 10 carried on confirm.
ally in ali the great cities OF the South the capital
Of the Union called after The Father Of bis coun-
trv isa great slave mart Droves ofsaves. chain
ed together may often be seen IN the streets Of
Washington: toe advertisements OF the dealers
are in the journals Of that city. There the great
| demagogues and the great drovens Of slaves meet
together and one city Is common % them al. II
there be degrees in such wrong doing II seems
worse TO steal baby IN America than msn IN
Guinea; worse TO keep gang OF women IN VIZ
ginia breeding children as swine for MARKET. than
| 10 steal grown men in Guinea IL is co~ardy DO
less than nhunan. Bat 90 long ago as ls2s, II was
said IN me Baltimore Reporter. Dealing IN slaves
has become a large business, establishments are
made in several places N Mar land, AZ which they
are sold ike cattle; these places OF deposit are
strongly built and well supplied with iron thumb
AID other Whips. often bloody.
The African slsve-trader perhaps even noV. is
not unkroxn At Baltimore or NeEOrears, bus
he is pirate he snaities and hides. goes sneak
ilg and cringes TO get along among men, "niie
\ the American slave-trsder goes openly 70 work.
| advertise. he increase OF his female slaves
erects his Jail. and when that Is Insufficient hiss
those OF the nation thrown open Tor his use, and al
the States solemDly pledge ed to deliver up the ios
,ives who escape from his hands. He marches he
c flies where be will The laws are on his side,
public sentiment and the majesty OF the Con.
stit1tion, He looks in at the door OF the Capitol
and is not ashamed"
Virginia Chiralrv-Heatien Humanity.
" In this transfer of slaves the most cruel separa
ton Of families takes place. In the slave breeding
States il is a common thing TO sell boy or giri
| while the mother 10 kept as a Breeder Does sne
| complain of the robbery There - the scourge,
| there are the chains and collars. Wilthe husband
| and father resent the wrong There are hand
calfs and ias the Law of the United states, the
| Constitution the Amy and Navy all the able
| bodied men of the Free States are legally bound 10
come. il need be. and put corn the lnsurectlon.-
Yet, more than fifteen hundred years ago no,
man Emperor forbid the separation OF families OF
slaves aud ordered all which had been separated
to be reunited Who can bear said the Empe-
| ror To bis heather subjects. who can bear that
children should be separated from their parents,
I sisters from their brothers wives from their hus-
| bands /"
| Ner,. England VS. South Carolina.
| While South Carolina has taken men from
! Africa. and made Slaves. New. England has taken
| possession OF the Winds OF the Waters she has
! kidnapped the Merrimack, the Connecticut, the
Androscoggin. the kennebec the Penooscot sni
hundred smaller streams She has caught the lakes
OF New II ampshire, and holds them 10 thrall. she
| has seized Fire and Water joined them with an
| iron yoke and made an array OF slaves powerful
| but plant Consider the machinery moved by such
| agents 10 New. L ng and, New York Pennsy yanla
| compare that with the human machines oil the
| South. and which is the better drudge Inc
| Pauiarchal Institution OF Slavery aud the econo
mcal institution Of Machinery stand side by side
| this representing the nineteenth century oeofe
Christ and that nineteenth century after Christ
They run for the same goal though Slavery started
first and had the smoother road. II Is safe 10 say
that the machinery OF the Free States has greater
productive ability than the 5000 600 bondmen OF
| the Soutb While Slavery continues, the machine
| ~ will not appear. Steam-engines aud slaves come
| of different stock
Slarerv Qualities Freemen for Politics.
"Slayery dverts the freeman from Industry. from
| Science from letters and the Elegant Arts IL
| has been said to qualify him tor Politics AS po,
| tical matters have been managed IN the United
States in this century, the remark seems Justhed
bv the facts Elections are not accidents. ~ the
,ighf Presidents efcfed IN the Nineteenth Century,
! sir rcre born an the S0uth-chudreR Of me Stare
States No Northern man has erer tielce been elect
ed to the highest office Of the Nation. A smHdr re-
su appears an the appointment 81 important gDeeTs
| by The President himself From 1859 to lsi5, one
hundred and seventy appointments were made OF
Ministers and Charges 20 foreign powers oil these
| seventy. eight were filed from the North ninety
two from the South Ofthe seventy -iour Ministers
Plenipotentiary senttoEurnpe beorel $40 forty three
were from the Slave States. There have been
fifteen Judges of the Supreme Court from the North,
eighteen from the South. The office OF Attorney
General has been fur times filled by Northern
men. foureen times by men from the Slave States.
Dat of thirty Congresses, eleven only have had a
Speaker from the North These are significant
facts and plainly show the aptitude OF southern
men to manage the political affairs OF America
There are Pilots for fair weather; Pilots also only
trusted in a storm
Holiness Of Slarery. MsthOdists, Presbyterians,
Bishop England and the Pope.
in some lands Monarchy, Aristocrscy, Preacy,
appear in the public teachings as parts oil Chus-
tanity la America It is not so. Bot It IS taught
that slavery is an ordinance OF uod-Jusuneu oy
Christianity Thus az the public Religion is else.
where made to sabserve the private purposes OF
Kings Mobiles Priests-so here 1t is made TO prove
the Justice of holding men in bondage. 1here are
no Chains like those rrough IN the nsre o. GOD
and sreided upon their uiciIms By the teachers Of
Religion.
In Tar kew. when man becomes Mahometan
man may oSn a member of his own church. beat
him sell him, and grow rich on the increase oil his
female slaves
"The teachings Of the Southern pulpit become
more and more favorable TO Slavery Oppressed
America promulgated the Theory OF Freedom
free she established the practice OF Oppression,
In l7sO the Methodist Episcopal ChurcA declared
Slavery is contrary to the Laws OF God, and mart
ful to society; 10 1854 il refused TO admit slave
holders to its communon-passing vote 70 ex-
clude all such. But ia 1886 the General Conference
voted not to Interfere in the civil and political re-
stions between master and slave and exhorted us
ministers to abstain from all abolition movements
The General Conference has since declared inst
American Slavery is not a moral evil Toe Con
ference OF South Carolina has made similar decia-
ration.
In 1894 the Presbyterian Church added note
TO the eighth commandment bringing Slavery IA
den that prohibition, declaring il manstealing ana
sin Yet though often entreated 1t did not excom'
municate for that offence. In lsl6. by public de-
cree the note rds erased Numerous Presoyteries
and Synods have passed resolutions like these
Slavery is not opposed TO the Will OF God
IL is compatible with the most fraternal regard 70
the best good of those servants whom God may
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