The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-02-03
slavery.

Jon =, d the ChTshsh
r.H'I, oosniog OF this discussion We re
10 " ,bI, there were certain questions
n,I ,S deeply agitated US at home, Il Is :
Ea'u y nsrt Of that great movement III
ind'Su, minds which pervades the whole I, CIV
n'n n Abroad, men are demanding
LIED r "s,j for themselves, Here we are
more nGr il for the slave. We have come
d' ,.L. @5oIe world has come, within a lev
snd 'n' new view of this whole subject
ysais' ~ 0resent moment the demand here
ba' !" l a,' : particular form. A determine
ha' 'I -. yery plainly manifested itself N
ton nas w., within few months past, that
tbs n1 Ill bs no further extension oil the
I I.. . .,,, upon our territory. we De,
slave ~ So eaectiyely, the battle for free soil
ll' 'i.' adv fought. and the victory won. We
5 a'' ;; 1, more than We rejoice at any
I'lO ,,s vent within our memory. Wheth.
PUN "s are right or wrong, the impulse oil
hole heart is TO say, We thank uod
Uri a,u. o;,e thanks bnt
". ~ sn-rit Of unkindness to our fellow
7" I'D tbe Southern States. We respect
- ~ a them whom we know. We be-
E IiiaI' Them TO be perfectly sincere and con-
N. icons IN the defence Of their SYSTEM
D" ,bsy must allow Us to be sincere TOO
% % 49,, We believe that ensla-
o. men Is Substantially wrong. We
'.D o., over. nor around, nor away from
- .onTietiion. that it is a wrong, which,
NJ; " Of being extended. should be extin-
, -,;sbs5 as fast as possible. We believe
T., N isa wrong to human natnre,-that II
wong 10 man as man. What II Is to
IS an animal, We will not now ask;
,.bs,bsr i feeds and clothes hun well, wheth-
-, makes him comfortable, whether II al
law, him TO be Joyous and sPortive, OF how
ofsn i visits him with stripes, gashes him
v,b wounds sends blood hounds TO pursue
Inn like dog or a wolf, We will not ask.
Human slavery is a wrong to the mature
hat i takes effect upon. Ii mistakes and
m,ltrests thai nature. There stands a hu-
man be.ns.-may his master cultivate his
s,pllie. a, he would those Of his child p
Bv no means: it will never do; he would
h. no longer a slave. Slavery, then, denies
10 tbs nature its inherent rights, denies It's
progress, commands il TO stop. TO stand
sll-Will not, does not, dares not permit
norise Why LET me ask any man, the
s,outss defender Of this syStem.-Wonld
YOU think ii night to enslaye the poorest,
nesnesL most miserable, most lmbecile
white man that lives ia the next cottage
Would you think it right, right before God,
70 seize him or buy him and sell him, and
sell his wife and his children. and their pos
tsrty forever, into hopeless bondage? The
answer is, No. What them Can the CON-
pe1ion Of a skin-whitened by Northern
sky, bronzed by an Indian cline, or black.
sned beneath the heats Of Airica-make all
this snpendous difference between right
snd wTOng,-make that to be Just under one
shade Of color, which under another would
te infinitely UNJUST Is this the ethics oil
he slave system, -that brand or a chain
upon white skin is a henious wrong, 10
make all the world cry out with indigna
dOG, and that a brand or a chain upon a
cOlOred skin is q righteous and lawful mark
and badgei
This is the strong ground Of the "Free
Soil" Argument but this is not all. The
wrong principle works out bad effects. No
Is visionary dreamers, not as mere morali
sers, DO we protest against the slave system
but as political economists, as patriot citi
zsns, as those who wish 10 see upon theil
territories the most vigorous and prosperous
growth Of men. II there were a Upas-tret
which could be introduced into California
and New Mexico, TO spread fatal bligh
though all the land, who would permit it tc
oePlsnied therel Slavery is that Upas-tree
hsa blight to industry, making it a degra
asaOn; f IS blight to the very soil, exhaust
ing It's fertility; il is blight to the genera
education Of the white race, from the neces
ssry sParseness Of that class Of the popula
uOn II IS blight to the whole internal &C
uElly and mechanical genius and CONNER
cal prosperity Of any people. Why, on
Oh ihe strongest pleas for the occupancy O
AeW soil is, that the old is worn out.
s sad' We know, that the torrid zone can
~. DC cultivated by any but black men,
suppose II were true, is that an argumen
~ making thoa slaves? Dut VIC dool,. ;f
Oe So We do not believe that there is an
tegion in which white men cannot be aC
chmaied, and accustomed to toll. Are III
people oil Brazil and Hindostan and Siar
U'ScK men! And even If the burning lin
zones the compilations of men as the
YplOach IT, IS that, We repeat. any reaso
iof making them sIsvesl Do the free an
Lslce elements, as they sweep around, writ
.'aos upon the brow which they have darl
NO complexion is not the brand of Sc
,ae0e even in the Shareholders estimation
y = descent from the slave mother. eve
IOOsA her children be almost as white
IsH master. 1t is not natures directio
T1 arbitrary enactment that makes slay
: local law" And il seems 10 us IN
9Sould have been much wiser for the slay
lOGsI to have said that the law establish,
aI'stat'0n' rather than tenure,-a certs
, ,slauon between him and the slave. III
a1 Old sehdom, rather than property in ma
mum a human being to be property commodil
"'i, Implement! Universal human I
~ ssle cfles out upon il with adherence. r
'ue' Is not tenable. nor tolerable. hare
. - No, it is a relation establi
s Uy arbitrary, particular local law, 7
f ,o' Is estopped by all natural h
nun nun arguing that be has Just as good
ssa' 70 carry his slaves to the new terri,,