The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-04-01


crusade for the slave and he and his advocate and his
master will suffer and perish together LiSh, up you
can the warfare and the spirit OF another Peter the Her
nit, and in this case, that. you VIII Dc rewarded
with desolation and a tomb. .
That slavery has been permitted TO establish itself
this continent for purposes both of wisdom and of mercy
reasonable who is accusomedt 10 look Tor the Or
gn the progress OF events IN power ana knowledge
can he doubt that these purposes whatever they will
in due time be made manifest to all Meanwhile, it is
not for lay an impatient and forbidden hand upon
any of the powers OF this government for the purpose Of
disturbing controlling it by any authority action of
ours On our part perfect abstinence in regard to it is
the wisest OF all policies the clearest of all constitutional
obligations and the best of all personal humanites Let
haone, is the one rational and authoritative injunction
OF wisdom and OF duty concerning et It go south, stll
SOUTH as 1t going and let its diffusion be such that
the two shall be protected long possible and
much possible from all liabilities OF violent collision
with one another. This permitted and done, all else
should be patiently left the developments and the teach
inKs OF time.
Some OF these as they have gradually to be
and apprehended. beginning to shine forth with i'm
pressve and instructive significance Take the color,
Tor Instance mark OF perpetual separation from the
white but bond OF perpetual union and sympathy
with the negroes themselves. 1t is and has been
prohibtory OF all complete amalgamaon between the
races and thus preserves amongst all the physical
OF the African Just as they were impressed
thus separation OF the races, with the ultimate and prOvi
dental design, would seem, to maintain this CONT
nen all the peculiarties of the African on his
would never have been eectual had it been left
the mere caprces OF sentiment taste founded upon
reties OF color These might have been overcome, and
the pecuarilies to be maintained onsequeny lost They
therefore placed beyond the law of taste under the
protection of another physical law which lies far deeper
operating independently of all human WILL and enforcing
itself under the sternest and of natural penalties
The offspring of the two races is hybrd-an offspring
whose progression. though not limited like that of
OF the lower animals, to the first generation,
heess arrested by unacy idocy, blindness deafness.
and dumbness, and other the most crushing nirmtes
THAT flesh is heir to- that become the sound
parental stock OF self maintaining population" ;,
Here, them have, always before us, the remarkable
phenomenon of one race OF mankind living, and living
for upwards of hundred years the midst of another
race, and yet incapable by OF natural laws, OF
BILE also OF imparng losing any OF its original and
tive characteristics The final OF this phenomenon
nsan by which ne was sentenced TO- be "a servant OF
servants unto his brethren" il is TO be found in
high and renovatng function which the American slave
yet to fulfil in the redemption OF the continent from
which he came.
Besides this PHYSICAL mmutabiity of the negro, as a
race amongst u.s. he has IN association with another Pc
and that his extraordinary aptitude to possess himself
as by intuition, of all the tastes and social habits and
mechanical arts and domestic intelligence and civilization
OF his master: You may pick up wild negro in Da-
homy, and bring him to Virginia, with his fettshes and
his Conjurng rod, and his sharpened cannba teeth and
his uninellgibe tongue, and give him there no other
instruction but what he Catch from his fellow slave
at their common work, and in few years he will be
civilized man. And he isno;, his American child in the
kcHcIduoH Will his Is OF no Otner savage
man upon earth. Look at our own red unciv-
ized almost il centuries of effort had not been ex.
pended upon his Improvement. Look at this very Afri-
can himself IN his own country amongst the most inca
pabe OF al! savages for self-elevaion but wonderfully
capable OF helping himself up by the hands and assist
Ct others.
OF facts mutually bearing upon and illustrating
other that the climate of Africa fatal the white
man ever TO become the place of his safe and permanent
abode This our experience at Liberia, and the mission
airy experience OF our religious societies at other points,
very fully establish 1t is obvious therefore, from this
that whatever is done for the moral Improvement OF that
continent must be done by those whose entire physical
nature is suited to It's baeful and burning 1t must,
in other words be done by the black man himself And
here, in the absolute necessity of conhdng this high
sion to him, OF leaving Africa her solitary VICE. we
find not improbable solution of much that peculiar
and otherwise mysterious in his circumstances and posi-
ton amongst ourselves Here in the light of this neces
sity, see, most probably, why it is that his perfect
identity has been protected by natural laws, which
dered his incorporation with us, and consequently his
disappearance distinct race, absolutely impossible
Here too, we have as probably the reason of his
ordinary capacity to take upon himself the knowledge
and the arts of his master Here too perhaps, the reason
OF his presence ,oith amongst whom the habits of pr
vale intercourse freer, and the rudments OF learning
more Peryaslve and universal than amongst any other
people in the world and here. also, may be the
why he was bound hand and foot with the iron chain of
personal bondage, that thus he might be fastened the
spot of his trials and his training until all thing, were
ready tor his final deliverance and departure.
otter you, Mr.. Chairman, no hypothesis upon these
facts They are such, however, undoubtedly, to
courage tne nope tat our country may become to Africa
as to others, the nursery and sorehouse of It's civza
ton and its freedom; that though it has troiden upon
portion OF her children and harnessed them for long
10 the yoke OF Its labors yet that thus has been
unconscously but benefcently preparing the by
which the smtngs OF this very portion may be converted
into the uplifting OF continent and the superstition and
cannlbalsm and tears of its sunken millions be wiped
away The facts, also, such as to surround this
whole subject of slavery with new motives TO orbear
ance and njunctons against the folly and the wick
edness OF all unauthorized nterneddlng with it.
When look, Mr.. Chairman, beyond the forms of legis
aton, and consider who the real parties the con-
toversy before ustha they not individuals rushing
into alteration with another, under the erceness OF
gnoble PASSIONS excited for gnoble Objects but power
ful and independent States constituted one for GER
tain great ends of mutual protection and advantage and
well of persons-the law of self prescrvaon--so
TO administer that common government never to en-
danger or Ovcrwhem Ii when | consider, sir, who the
parties are-what their relative oblgations-what their
reciprocal Experimentation infinitely exceeding every
thing else is the interest OF each the mutual Justice and
fidelity OF all-how amazing their prosperty-how ex-
allied their renown--how renovating their example upon
thought that their republican banner only over
an empire unparalleled in all its elements of happiness
and freedom and power but is yet to wave, by nu
ence, the mitable empire of reborn and self gov
erning man when consider all this, sir cannot be
otherwise than cheered with the conviction that all will
be we'll that parties situated will ne yer proane their
story their honor, through an act of deliberate wrong
OF mutual difference and concession which united them
az hst Will triumph all troubles, dispose Alright of
M Soncsls ana thus continue to harmonic and unite
mem forever In such brotherhood of parties when
' arise, there is no expediency upon which to
s e oat that Of Justice benefit to be sought in