The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-08-19

Of culyand Of God To-day, ia this boosted
land ofIight and liberty, there three millions
Of 'casjsar Hau<ers, sHnd as IL this were not
enopgh, At is proposed 10 multiply their number
tenioid, and 10 al mp all the We stern world with
theie proofs Of human avsrlce and guilt II Is
PROPOSED that We ourselves should create, and
shol,id publish to the world, not one, but un.
told millions Of "Exaaplss Of q Crime on The
Liftef The Sod-v II is proposed that the self
IstyIsd fses-men. the seifstyled Christians, Of
fifteen great States in this American Union,
shall engage in the work Of procreating, rear
ing, and selling CasPar Hausers, often from
their own loins; and il any further develop
niert Of soul or Of body Is allowed 10 the Ameri-
can victims than was permitted to the Bavarian
child, Il Is only because such development will
increase their market value at the barracoons
II Is not rom any difference ofmotive, bat only
the better 20 insure that motives induIgence.
The slave child must be allowed 10 use his limbs.
OF how could he drudge out his life in the ser
vice Of his MASTER The slave infant must be
taught to walk, or how, under the sksdoso Of
Ibis thrice glorious Capitol. could he join coi-
fs for New Orleans.
i know, sir, that IL has been said, within a
short time past, that CasPar Hauser was an inn
poster, and his story a fiction. Would to God
that this could ever be said Of his fellow victims
in America
For another reason slavery Is an unspeakable
wrong. The slave Is declared from testifying
against white man The courts viii not hear
him as witness. By the principles Of the
common law, If any man suffers violence at the
haads Of another, he can prefer his complaint
TO the magistrates. or 20 the grand juries Of the
courts, who are bound 10 give him redress
Hence the law is said to hold up its shield before
every man for his protection. II surrounds
him in the crowded street and in the solitary
place. Ii guards his treasures with greater Wig
lance than locks iron safes; and against med
itatsd aggressions upon himself, his wife, or his
children, it fassens his doors every night, more
securely tian lripsc bolts OF brass But ali these
sacred P-oteciioAs are denied to the slave
While subjected to The law OF force, he is shut
90 Rom the law of right To suffer Injury Is
zzf.,tss far .ztrtf-s thst -shiser hts fesh and
-.>ss thas brsah- sss absnsss f@r raahsry a., Tar
mufdsr neither he nor,his friends have preven-
tive, resiety, or recompense- The father. whs,
Is slave, may see sou or daughter scored.
Inangled, matilated, rzyished, before his eyes.
and be must be dumb AZ a sheep before MS
shearers. The wifemay be disbsnered in the
presence Of the husband, and, II he remoa-
straies or rebels. the miscreant who could burn
with the lust, viii barn not less fsrcely with a
vengeance 10 be glufted upon his fciIer.
In the order Of nature, an entire kingdom or
community. were TO be enyeIoped in total dark
ness--to have no day, no dawn, but midnight
evermore. Into what Infinite forms Of violence
and wrong would the deprayed passions Of the
human heart spring uPs when no longer re-
strained by tile light Of day, and the dan gers Of
exposure. SO far as legal rights against bis op-
pEessors are concerned. the slave lives in such
a world Of darkness A hundred Of his fellows
may stand around him and witness the wrongs
he suffers, but not one Of them can appeal 10
. jury, or magistrate, or Judge, for punishment
or redress. The wickedest white man in
company of slaves, bears n charmed life. There
is not one of The fell passions that RACES in his
bosom which ne cannot indulge with wanton-
ness, and 10 safety, and the court has no ears
10 hear tbs complaint Of the victim How
dearly does every honorable man prize charae-
teri The law denies the slave character; for
however tradnced, legal yindication is impos-
sible.
And yet, Infinitely fragrant as the anomaly is,
the slave Il amenabe 10 the laws Of the land for
all offences which he may commit against others.
though he is powerless to protect himself by the
same law from offenscs which others may commit
against him. lie may suffer all wrong, and the
courts will not hearken tohis testimony; bat for
the first wrong he does, the same courts infiict
their seyerest Punishmenis upon him. This is
the reciprocity Of slave law-tO be forever liable
20 be proved guilty, but never able TO prove him
self innocent; 10 be subject 20 all punishmenis,
but, through his own oath, 10 no protection
Hear what Is said by the highest Judicial tribunal
Of South Carolina. although slaves are held TO
be the absolute property Of their owners, yet
they have the power Of committing crimes. %
Koff and Nc Cords Rap. I79. A negro Is so far
smenable to the common law, that he may Be
one OF three to constitute The number necessary
e mskssffIOt lsf Boys Rep 55S. By Ne AVS
81 tie same State negro may Be himself stsiea
and l.o has a. rs.fesss -bat * he stezls negro
iron anorhes. h,ahall ~ hung. "a Nstf sad g.
frf.rs Rrt-. f74, 4 "A szarsis 81 IA seseftr
-. ~ ~, tssss5 f1.srs tkssS'l5f fszl ~
- Afsfes an rlase inzscalorie< esn>tfas O.
eesana,nH % EhTa.s, "Wlsrisoorsf - ~oaid
that nsea shoaiJ Do. unto you. do ye also the
same unto them" Nay, By thsiaEs Of some Of
the slave States, where master and slave are en-
gagged in jOini act, the slave isindietable, while
lhe MASTER is not
What rights are mote sacred or more dear 90
rs than the eonjEgal and the PARENTAL Nosay
age nation, however far removed from the from
tiers Of civilization, has ever yet been discover
ed, where these rights were unknown OF I'M
honored. The beasts Of the forests feel and re-
spect them. II IS only in the land Of slaves that
they are blotted cut and annihilated-
Slavery Is an unspeakable wrong 10 The con-
science. The wOrd CONSCIENCE conveys a
complex idea. II includes conscientiOusness !;
that IS, the sentiment OF instinct Of night and
wrong; and intelligence, which Is the guide OF
this sentiment. Conscience, then, implies both
the desire OF impulse to do night, and also a
knorieige OF what IS right. Nature endows US
with the sentiment, but the knowledge we must
acquire. Hence we speak Of an 'senlizhtened
conscience meaning thereby not only the
moral sense, but hat knowledge Of circunstan-
ces, relations, tendencies, and results, which is
necessary in order TO guide the moral sense 70
Just conclusions. Each Of these elements is
equally necessary TO enable man 10 feel right
and to oct night Mere knowledge, without the
moral sense, can take no cognizanceof the ever
lasting distinctions between night and wrong,
and so The blind instinct, ungnided by knowl-
edge, viii be foT ever at fault in its conclusions
The two were made 70 eo-exist and operate to-
gciheT, by Him who made The humansoul. But
the impio,.s hand Of man divorces these twin
capacities, wherever il denies knowledge. If
one OF these coordinate powers in the mental
realm be annulled by the legislature, il may be
called law; but il is iepuynant to every law and
attribute OF God.
But, not satisfied with having invaded the hu-
man soul, and annlhilatet one Of its most sa-
|cred attributes, IN the persons Of three millions
Of our fellow men; not satisfied with having
killed the conscience, 50 far as il can be killed
by human device, and human force, in an entire
race we are nov invoked to multiply thai race,
TO extend it over regions yet unscathed by its ex-
istcnce, and there TO call into being other mil
hons OF men, upon whose souls, and upon the
soulsof whose pOsterity, the same unholy spolia-
tan shall be committed forever.
Slavery is an anspeakable wrong to the reIi-
<se1. -s.ss.-~. 20 sr>~.s- IT, svarost ssd must
piseious Of all herman rights 10 the right Of
iadgmeni in matters Of religion. am interest
ed in nothing else so much as in the attributes
Of my Creator; and in the relations which he