Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-04-06


must not be meddled with, forsooth, because
II was introduced into this country by the
British Government. Is there something IN
such paternity which renders moral wrong
inviolable9 If the evil of stealing had been
planted in this country by Great Britain, it
would. of course. have been cur duty to let
it alone. ''Admirable'' reasoning, Father
Richie, eh
2. The Observer tells us, sit is not easy
now to get rid of the evil suddenly" Doubt
less, but why! 1.-The law constitutes the
whites a PRIVILEGED cLAss--THE ARTS-
TOCRACY OF THE LAND. and we ought
not to be surprised, if this ARTSTOCRACY
should not suddenly surrender its power and
privileges. We MAST not BE too impatient"
Reader, do YOU understand the argument
Our Southern brethren are ARISTOCRATS :;
and they don't like to be hurried in the bust
ness Of repentance therefore we should let
them alone. We must stand at an awful dis
lance, cap in hand, and wait their lordly pleas
ure to move in the matter of 'sEetttng the op-
pressed go free" And this is said by North
ern Editor, to NORTHERN FREEMEN. We
wonder that shame did not burn the writer's
cheek to a cinder, while inditing such senti-
ments. We thought that such an unmitiga-
ted dough-face, such a white-livered syco-
plant could not breathe the air of the Empire
State. He exhorts us to 'slet alone, do moth
/ ing policy at the very moment when his
| idolized "ARIsTocRArs'' are plotting to extend
their cursed system over territory half as
large as Europe.
:. The Observer tells us, ''our Southern
brethren have done more to get rid of the evil
than could have been expected" And pray
what have they done? 1t seems there were
by the last census, some 600 free blacks
in the Southern States, who, if Mey acre
shuUes, would be worth 100000, 600. This
the Observer represents as ''a voluntary sac
rifce, made by Southern shareholders, on the
altar Of anti-slavery feeling and principle"
That humanity is not extinct at the South we
willingly believe; but that 2f5, 900 have been
to forget that the great majority of these must
have been free-Jorn. But suppose we ought
to admire the magnanimity which allows so
many free blacks TO Hve on Southern SOIL
But what of the two and half millions of
SLAyEs-when shall they be free? Oh, SAYS
the Observer, (bless its kind heart we must
not be too impatient. Our oristocrafic"
''brethren" do not like to be hurrfed-thev
are doing far more than could be expected =
Reader, did you ever stir such dish of skim
med milk before?
''Our Southern brethren Mr. Observer.
are NOT trying to get rid of Slavery; and you
know it. They are laboring, with might and
main, TO EXTEND their damnable peculiar in
stItutlon," over those parts of the continent
which are now free. And you are frontless
enough to preach ''inactvity'' to the friends
OF Liberty when was any great social evil
extirpated by letting it alone! The labors
and sufferings of reformers, since the world
began, declare that reform is ALWAYS AGcREs-
sIvE.
! 4. Our Editor grows suddenly pious.-
Christ and his apostles did not denounce
and irritate the Shareholder. THE argu-
ment proves too much. Christ and his apos-
ties did not denOunce and irritate the tyrants
of their day. Liberals and Nero sat on the
Imperial throne unreproved; and Christians
were commanded to be subject to the powers
that be. Does not this prove that Grill des-
poftsm ought not to be rebuked and opposed
IT we knew what Christ and his apostles
would do IN .4nlerfca, In the nineteenth centu-
ry, we should be bound to do likewise.
There is not moral precept in the New
pS VIII abI
All the atrocious elements of the system are
denounced in detail. Every precept which
forbIds avarlce, fraud, oppression, licentious-
ness, robbery, and MURDER forbids Slavery.
The Observer seems to be ignorant of the
sum and substance of Christianity. viz, that
Store which worketh no i'll to his neiohbor.',
We can bear with the apologist for Slavery
till he grows sanctimonious, and dares to
claim JESUS as the friend and patron of on
preston bit then we cannot restrain our in
dignation.
o. We are told, finally, ''that the Bible
method of dealing with Slavery is the BEST
indisputably: but what is the Bible meth
Cd ?-Why, the Bible, ii seems, does not
seek to change the lar. ''No. 1t seeks first
to change the heart of the master-and when
1t has gained the master, it trusts him to change
the law" Now what does all this mean g
1t admits Of but one construction The or
thodox and pious Editor would not for the
world have masters free their slaves before
they are concerted. Their hearts must be
changed first. Teen we may exhort them to
emancipate their slaves.-All this is mere
twaddle and cant. The Bible gives no spe-
cite directions for the treatment Of slave-hold-
ers. The general principle is, that the wick