The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-08-11

Coh6iecs Ildoe tne foreign slav
Iede piracy, and imposed tho punishmer
oil death upon those who might engage i
Il. Washington signed and approved tn
Constitution as President Of the Conver
ton, and afterwards liberated all his slaves
Jefferson (who, in reference to slavery, sal
''he lrembled for his country when be re
membered that liod was Just, y signed an,
approved The acl prohibiting the further i'm
Portstion Of slaves. Monroe signed an,
approved the act denouncing The slave trad
as piracy. Am | 10 be condemned for en-
terainlng sentiments like those upon which
these lslheIs Of The republic have acted?
Oar colonial ancestos protested agains
The conduct of the mother country in fore
ing the African slave trade upon us. 1
their sense Of justice had tolerated tn,
seizure of unchristian savages and making
slaves OF them, why did they not attack the
Indians and convert every captured squaw
and her children into slaves through success
sive generationsi The best title in slave,
in tie origin of the institution, is founded
on lhe rights Of war; and yet through all
our Indian wars, so far as am informed
al no period OF our history has any one Sc
riousy proposed to make slaves of Indian
captives. Why this difference between the
negro and The Indian! As harbarians, as
uncivilized, unchristisn people, they occu.
pied the same condition OF infariority 10 the
high-lOned, civilized, christian Anglo Sax.
on! Il, for any Of the reasons in vindics-
ton Of slavery. il be Jus! and righteous to
make slaves OF negroes, will not the same
reason have equal force when applied to
Indians True, their skins are moi so black
as those Of Africans; yet, if difference Of
color be any argument i'll favor Of making
slaves OF the darker races, the contrast be.
tween the Indian and white man is sui6.
GENTLY striking to justify the experiment.
But surely the color OF the skin does moi
favor slavery any more Than the color OF the
eye. What would the world think if all
persons with white eyes should congregate
and seriously resolve 10 make slaves OF
every body who had black eyes?
Cine OF the causes OF war against Great
Britain in 1917, was the violation Of our
flag on her part. by invading our ships, i'm.
pressing our seamen and making them
slaves. say SlaUes, because to make q
man fight or work on board ship against
his will is slavery more aggravated than thai
Of forcing him to hoe or pillow corn. Wa
there not as much Justice, according 10 any
code Of morals, in the British practice 0
impressing our sailors as there is in enslav
ing the children of Africsl
But let US sdmit, for the argument, tina
It is the will Of God, and therefore Just
that heather ssvages should be enslayed
so that Christian masters may improve thel
condition. II that be conceded, does i
not necessarily follow that it is equally
Just for the moral and religious part Of tn
same community to enslave the immora
and ineligious citizens in order TO imProvI
] their conditonl Under this new docuin
Of making slaves TO improve people. ma,
moi a religious and Christian majority sa,
to the minority Of Jews, Turks and nfdels
we will improve your faith by making yoI
slaves to an inquisitionI May not liz
majority declare that editors and published
should be enslsved BY board Of censor:
so that immoral and inhdel publication
might be suppressed and society thereby i'll
proved What becomes Of the right {
conscience, the liberty Of speech and {
, the press, or any other great and essentis
, right to which man by nature is entitled,
the doctrine be tue, that the intelligen
powerful and yirtuous, may rightlully e
slave the foolish, the weak, and the yicioI
! for their improvement In my judgmen
l the direct tendency of such n doctrine
: the subversion Of those fundamental priI
: ciples Of human liberty heretofore held >
, cred as the very basis OF our republican il
stitulions. If | could be induced at all
yield to this doctrine Of the right to ensla'
Tor the purpose of improving, it would
with the qualification that, as soon rs Il
barbarian Of the desert had been civiliss,
/. and christisnised in the school Of slsvey
and had paid by his labor g reasonab
. compensation to his benevolent and Chr
tan master for the tuition. then he shou
be permitted to resume the free exercise
all his improved faculties and regenerst,
. nature. This qualification is no part Of Il
q doctrine. On the contrary, if | understar
. the pro-slavery creed, il is that the benef
\ conferred upon the race enslaved are so st
pendous and magnificent that they are b
4 poorly requited by perpetual servitude, &c
. Grafton after generation!
A But am wasting time and words.
this age OF the world and in this countr
: so enlightened in regard to the natural rigt
) of all mankind, it would be impossible
. establish the institution Of slavery, were
now for the first time proposed. The qu'
!; ton is not, shall we make slaves! But it
= what are we to do with slaves born a
raised and accustomed 10 their degrad
- condition? These are very different Gu
n tons.
> After years Of patient observation a
3 consideration, have become thorough
- convinced that slavery as it exists anlo
y US is preudicial to the general haPpn
n and interest of the people, injurious to
- children, dangerous to our country, and
: moral in lis tendencies. | look upon 1t
- an evil not beyond remedy; and therefor
% am not willing TO fold my arms and LET
H. cancer-like, run its course to consume
:! victim without a struggle to arrest It
Hence. as we are to construct new u
~ eminent, think owe it TO my country
" nv children, and myself TO insist upon SC
constitutional provision which shall Poin
ca its Ultimate termination. For doing III
nj am to be denounced as an aeitator, one